Example sentences of "[v-ing] it be the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Muriel said on several notes , implying it was the wrong type of joke and the wrong time . |
2 | She reached out and turned the clock towards her , blinking at the small ornate face , attempting to focus on the figures , trying to work out if it was twenty past twelve or twenty past one , finally deciding it was the earlier hour . |
3 | That may not bother AXA , providing it is the dominant shareholder . |
4 | The first scale we 'll look at is the Dorian minor , which can be played over a minor seventh chord providing it 's the II chord of the key we are in . |
5 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
6 | The Hollywood Reporter sent me a note saying it 's the 25th Anniversary of James Bond , would you like to take out an ad . |
7 | This is just one that 's come to mind , I 'm not saying it 's the correct one at this stage because as I have said I would like to go away an work on these plans |
8 | I 'm not saying it 's the same s |
9 | He keeps saying it 's the same one |
10 | We are saying it is the best we can do and we must judge how it is operating . ’ |
11 | ‘ Now we are saying it is the worst since the 1930s . ’ |
12 | We 've had lots of letters saying it was the worst thing we 've ever done . |
13 | Texturing it was the big challenge . |
14 | I started by assuming it was the usual sort of thing but I 've made inquiries with our people in Narborough and I 'm not sure it was anything sexual . |
15 | Complementing it is the British Coal Yearbook which offers a written record of the season and which has expanded this time to embrace the seasons in France , Australia and New Zealand . |
16 | She spoke firmly , knowing it was the only way to lie . |
17 | Laura declined the offer of a public honour , knowing it was the only way to salvage her husband 's personal honour , which was the more important to her . |
18 | She replaced the receiver , standing unmoving , staring across the room towards the Knudsen with hungry eyes , knowing it was the last time she would ever see it . |
19 | She had no way of knowing it was the same man who had interrogated Madeleine , then made her his mistress , any more than Madeleine could know that her friend was in the building being interrogated by him . |
20 | For by insisting it is the only way to knowledge it is dismissing other ways as unimportant , irrelevant and probably misleading . |
21 | Recognising you 've got a problem is fine , but changing it is the hardest part and a lot of people do n't do it . |
22 | Washington , Seattle-based Spry Inc will be showing its new SprySoft Netware Client for Unix at InterOp next week , claiming it is the only product on the market that is client rather than server-based . |
23 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
24 | Do not be fooled into thinking it is the noisiest or jokiest member of the panel . |
25 | ‘ I think we 've had a break-in , ’ I said , thinking it was the best story to push and concentrating on pulling up my jeans . |
26 | The need to enter printed text or data into computers without the effort of re-keying it is the driving force behind the development of optical character recognition ( OCR ) technology . |
27 | She quickly pulled it in and shoved it through the slot , hoping it was the right thing . |
28 | If anything was missing it was the special 's responsibility to ask for it , and ask fast . |
29 | When beating it is the sideways force that is large with the daggerboard fully down to resist it . |
30 | Erm , there 's a perfect example in Appendix Three , in and Planning It 's the second page of of Appendix Three , and to read through it , and I wo n't read it , because obviously everybody has done . |