Example sentences of "[coord] it [is] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where liability is admitted , or it is acknowledged that liability is likely to be established , then it may be sensible to try and agree an interim payment because it will probably be possible to secure a lower sum in interim damages than would be awarded by the Court if matters were so to proceed . |
| 2 | It 's a seaside town on the west coast of Scotland and it 's getting all these American stars down there all the time . ’ |
| 3 | And it 's getting worse . |
| 4 | I keep reading about South Africa 's problems and it 's getting daft ; here we face an international squad who have already played four Tests since returning to the world game and who have played 12 games together on tour . |
| 5 | ‘ We told Mum we would n't be late and it 's getting dark , ’ I mumbled . |
| 6 | So nothing goes through the docks , the income 's still there and it 's getting bigger . |
| 7 | ‘ And it 's getting darker , too . ’ |
| 8 | Making the transition from amateur to professional is an uphill struggle and it 's getting tougher every year , reports Steve Muncey . |
| 9 | Many others , however , ( and it 's believed this group included Orkney Islands Council ) would have liked to see the family leave South Ronaldsay altogether . |
| 10 | across and it 's touching that hole in the middle and she 's getting all blocked up and the stuff 's running all the way down the back of your throat , that right ? |
| 11 | it has done has just become distorted and it 's splitting more away from the nail . |
| 12 | It 's organisers say it 's for everyone and it 's receiving public funding . |
| 13 | But the Americans are coming and it 's causing great alarm in some circles . |
| 14 | ‘ It taught him to settle and relax and it 's made all the difference . |
| 15 | erm it 's an old one and it 's called Fancy Fish and we were sorting our videos out to list 'em and then we 'll make a list and then we 'd let you have and then if you want a video and that , you know what you got and we were looking through this Fancy Fish and it 's erm I do n't know if you remember it , it shows an open show at Oxford |
| 16 | And it 's called Fancy Goods |
| 17 | Yes lovely , amino acids , right , it 's one particular amino acid there are eight essential amino , amino acids and it 's one of these and it 's called venial alanine you do n't have to remember that , it 's very difficult to , to remember . |
| 18 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 19 | And it 's called enhanced careers guidance . |
| 20 | and it 's called mediant because it lies exactly half way between the first note and the fifth note which is also a very important note in the scale , which we 'll come to in a minute . |
| 21 | ‘ We played very well on the day and it 's looking good , ’ he said . |
| 22 | One way or another I 'm going to have to decide over the weekend — and it 's looking unlikely I 'll be driving at Easter , ’ he says . |
| 23 | and he 's planning all this damn , it 's costing millions of pounds and it 's costing thousands of pounds while he 's sat in that dammed office having it all drawn up and |
| 24 | The farm is open to the public and it 's reviving old fashioned techniques as living history . |
| 25 | Just the statutory plug for tomorrow 's show — and it 's calling all those amongst you who have ever tangled with the plastic interlocking brick and failed to construct anything — yes , Katie 's off to Legoland in Denmark . |
| 26 | And it 's working alright . |
| 27 | LOS ANGELES ' hottest T-shirt , and it 's heading this way : ‘ I survived the 100 per cent off sale at Fedco ’ |
| 28 | necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class . |
| 29 | And it 's took all the fire out of it he there ai n't no fire in that bottom one . |
| 30 | I 'm not sure it was that brilliant but ha , ha , and it 's to change that law |