Example sentences of "it is [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 2 | Then when it is touched it immediately snaps the shells together like a steel trap . |
| 3 | It is picking you up before you fall . |
| 4 | Amdahl Corp believes that its Huron applications development and production system is a winner , and rather than leave it stranded on the mainframe under MVS , it is taking it along in the direction the market is moving with two new versions , one that runs under its UTS implementation of Unix System V on its mainframes , the other for Unix workstations , the first version of the latter being for 80486-based machines under Unix . |
| 5 | It is getting him nowhere . |
| 6 | We see immediately how easy it is to use them either positively or negatively , for beauty and life or for ugliness and death . |
| 7 | Since documents prepared with either indented or hanging paragraphs tend to be consistently of the one style , it is as easy to set up the format before typing as it is to do it afterwards . |
| 8 | It is understood he initially thought of going there at the weekend but was advised against it by the police . |
| 9 | As long as gravel does not stick permanently in the mouth of your fish , I suspect it is swallowing it deliberately , and there is no cause for concern . |
| 10 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 11 | It is believed they well be removed . |
| 12 | He was convicted of entering the country illegally , though it is believed he accidentally strayed over the border from Kuwait , where he was working . |
| 13 | They paid a deposit of £800 , and it is costing them more than £200 a month to repay a loan on their £8,000 apartment . |
| 14 | Rather it is to know him personally , intimately . |
| 15 | People can hold on to seven plus or minus two bits of information and the plus or minus two he called the local factors which are you know whether it 's warm out whether you feel warm or cold or whether or what time of day it is have you just had a heavy lunch whatever it might be . |
| 16 | It may prove to be Margaret Thatcher 's most lasting contribution to her party , for it is changing it irrevocably . |
| 17 | The bad one leads them into temptation and they believe that the only way that they can get rid of it is to drag it close to danger . |
| 18 | It is keeping it off though , is n't it ? |
| 19 | ‘ I would be delighted if it was a fixture at parties but I think it is stretching it too far to say Spam will be on the end of cocktail sticks . |
| 20 | Shortly after the commission 's report was made public , Alan Soloman , a computer virus expert , invited hackers , and those whose business it is to keep them out , to a tournament which will test the expertise of both sides . |
| 21 | The father sees the son coming home after all the bingeing — the wine , women and song — and runs out with love and says : ‘ How good it is to have you home ! |
| 22 | Tourists see in British domestic architecture qualities which those whose job it is to protect them often ignore . |
| 23 | I have the right to know what she is doing and , if she is having an affair , it has got to stop because it is driving me out of my mind . ’ |
| 24 | If noise is where language ceases , then to describe it is to imprison it again with adjectives . |
| 25 | ‘ The really tragic thing is that the longer people are unemployed the harder it is to get them back to work . |
| 26 | That 's a great satisfaction to everybody , it goes to a car pound , and then you have to go there and pay your sixty dollars or whatever it is to get it out . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman has said that it is in the process of acquiring two incredibly beautiful works and the point is that it is acquiring them even though they cost much more than the nominal amount of Government grant available . |
| 28 | If your elderly parent is in the habit of doing this , the only way around it is to tell her quite frankly , as kindly as possible ( even at the risk of giving some offence ) , that there are certain times of the day when it is very difficult for you to make or receive phone calls except in an emergency . |
| 29 | At the time it appalled the traditionalists ; now it is winning them round with its logical elegance , nostalgic glamour and atmosphere of cocktails on a Cunard liner . |