Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Taking further tentative steps into the Unix arena , Software AG GmbH , Darmstadt , Germany , last week announced it will support IBM 's RS/6000 with its fourth generation development language Natural , and Adabas , its relational database management system , which it is targeting at on-line transaction processing solutions .
2 In 1991-92 , the TDC had a budget allocation of £51 million , which it is using to great effect .
3 Sixteen-month-old Natick , Massachusetts-based start-up , Atria Software Inc , will this week introduce ClearCase , which it is touting as the industry 's most advanced software configuration management system for organising pieces of large-scale CASE development projects .
4 Hewlett-Packard Co is expected to take a 20% stake in the IBM Corp-Apple Computer Inc Taligent joint venture to seal a deal under which it is working with IBM on a standard for desktop Unix using IBM 's Common User Access specification and dubbed COSI , or Common Operating System Interface .
5 The central allegation in what 's certain to be a bitterly contested case , is that B A has a monopoly based on its dominance of Heathrow , which it 's abusing in a bid to force Virgin out of the market for transatlantic travel .
6 Erm it seems it seems to me that wha what 's crucial here is the er the spirit behind the policy or or rather the the way in which it 's going to be interpreted .
7 But the revolt against Labour in the housing schemes , which it was promising at the start of the campaign , never materialised , and its prediction that it would win a majority of seats now looks silly .
8 Now tt if you look at it this way , le let's suppose that the Communist Party was successful in its military campaign and it , it takes military control of south China , which it was beginning to then , and did up to nineteen forty eight
9 PW also had to hand back $500,000 of the client 's money , which it was holding as a contingency against liability .
10 I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth .
11 Whatever it was looking for , we did n't hang around to find out .
12 and he used to come in here and , and if it , if Y T or , or jobs you know whatever it was going to be , they , they all come in and they knew who Steve is
13 To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments .
14 Consequently , a tender offer gives the board of the target much less time to organise its defences and , given the lack of any argument and persuasion on the part of the buyer in the tender advertisement , no detailed guide as to what it is defending against ( defensive statements may simply display the target board 's paranoia ) .
15 Labour would face strong pressure from the Unionists to give Northern Ireland what it is giving to Scotland , where there is also a separatist minority .
16 Er , on paragraph nine the government 's own figures show that there is a shortfall of glee while the others who have a a social conscience , a and that they 've mixed , the site provision is n't keeping pace with the growth of the number of caravans and yet , what it 's proposing to do in this paper will make the situation worse by removing any incentive erm and any requirement on local authorities actually to provide the sites that are needed to make up that shortfall and it 's quite clear that what this is about is actually what it is happening in housing in general and that is shifting provision from the pri , from the public to the private sector .
17 ‘ It is a totally new departure for me , and I have to admit I do n't know what it is going to be like or what to expect .
18 Although exercise will be working properly only if it is vigorous enough to cause some sweating and panting , you can check what it is doing to your heart , if you fear overstraining , by monitoring the pulse rate .
19 Informix also launched what it is describing as graphical framework services that is its OpenCase/Toolbus product based on Softbench technology licensed from Hewlett-Packard Co , an encapsulator for Toolbus so that third-party vendors can encapsulate their tools to run with this software backplane and the Informix 4GL for Toolbus .
20 The riposte must be that what it is coming to is that it is now technically possible to perform that operation , and naturally a huge demand for it has developed .
21 Thus , the only way to understand Scripture is to submit to what it is saying at face value .
22 Yes ? , and that 's what it 's getting at , Karen .
23 Erm Romans verse and verse four you notice this text is taken from verse twelve , rejoice in the hope and then persevering prayer , but if you go into verse four , what it 's speaking about there , but just as we have in one body many , members , but the members do not all have the same function and then in six to eight he goes on to describe that we all have gifts do n't we differing according to the undeserved kindness given to us , whether er so forth and so faith , ministry , erm teaching , exhorting , all these different gifts , though sometimes if a particular brother or sister does n't have a particular gift and we think well you know that 's a bit hard going I ca n't seem to listen to them , that 's an area perhaps where we could erm be quivering could n't we , or complaining , especially about assignments , you might get speakers that come here from other congregations , and some are better than others are n't they ?
24 Everything is smaller down there — including their eyeballs — to the same extent-so the eye still gets filled up with what it 's looking at in the normal way .
25 And if you do n't withdraw it , the C E C is completely and totally opposed to it because we already have what it 's asking for in the rule .
26 There 's not a lot of evidence that the government really does know what it 's talking about when it comes to BSE .
27 So what it 's talking about there is how you can actually define a group .
28 Essentially what it 's talking about it inward investment on small scale .
29 This is what it 's going to be like from now on .
30 Christ knows what it 's going to be like in July if this weather keeps up . ’
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