Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [vb mod] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hang a traditional village skirt outside the arrack shop , saying that any man patronising it will be made to wear the skirt . |
| 2 | In passing it may be observed that journeymen and apprentices were seldom specified , although this must have been the status of many of the servants that were listed . |
| 3 | [ In passing it must be mentioned that one of those raw materials , hydrocyanic acid , is also used for another very important material in the portfolio of the Acrylics Business , sodium cyanide , the main use of which is in gold extraction processes . |
| 4 | So why do n't we reply to the people who put this suggestion that in reprinting it 'll be taken into account but there are some reasons that we ca n't follow it completely and that , two chief of which are different , where colour is used for coding and erm , secondly what Richard has just said . |
| 5 | At that time , he was still a Party member , believing it could be reformed from within . |
| 6 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 7 | The noise of the crowd surrounding it could be heard even at this distance . |
| 8 | AN Ulster school is considering action against its town 's deputy mayor for saying it should be shut down for teaching a new sex education project . |
| 9 | I 'm saying it could be improved , I 'm sorry . |
| 10 | We were discussing the yarn ‘ Hobby ’ at the club and some members were saying it could be re-used , even though it had been thoroughly steam pressed , worn and washed for years . |
| 11 | This procedure can be used by defendants , as happened in Coenen v Payne , to dispose of a plaintiff 's claim which is weak on liability but difficult and complicated on quantum , so that substantial costs of investigating and defending it may be thrown away , particularly if the plaintiff is legally aided . |
| 12 | Before commencing it should be emphasized that when a geologist talks of a volcano having been recently active , he means that it has been active within the last ten thousand years . |
| 13 | The ship refused to do this , knowing it would be destroyed , and immobilised itself , using what techniques it could to warn the travellers . |
| 14 | Corbett had dreaded this question , always knowing it would be asked . |
| 15 | If a car is unlawfully taken and then returned in a damaged state , it seems absolutely right that the person or persons responsible for taking it should be assumed to be responsible for causing the damage unless they can prove the contrary . |
| 16 | Its location and the names of the major players in the consortium financing it will be announced shortly . |
| 17 | Once you are in the habit of reviewing it can be done , alone or with others who participated in the experience , in about five minutes fiat . |
| 18 | Moore 's way of putting it might be defended on the basis of a realist view of universals for which individual horses are horses because they participate in a universal object horse , and do so in virtue of the fact that they have parts participating in universal objects which are parts of the universal object horse and related to each other in ways which participate in the universal relations linking part to whole in the universal object . |
| 19 | But unless you allow betting it will be destroyed . ’ |
| 20 | Critics claimed he was hoping it would be ignored amid the furore of the US presidential elections . |
| 21 | No I was hoping it would be won as well . |