Example sentences of "it [be] [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Has it been going this lesson ? |
2 | If you 're going to , if you 're going to provide the service you have to be careful that it , it is being effective , as effective as it can be , does it need to be more effective and should it be operating all week . |
3 | And this man came to the door , and he went to get the hold belt , that should just have a tape recorder on conversation just throughout the week so it 's getting all sorts of rubbish going in there , |
4 | It 's getting that way . |
5 | The poisons in tobacco smoke get through to the baby with great efficiency ; it 's getting this message to the mothers that no one has managed very effectively yet . |
6 | The campaign 's just starting , and already it 's generating much attention … proof say De Montfort University authorities that it 's money well spent |
7 | The company says its experience this time through is different from when the first Snakes were delayed by shortfalls in the Texas Instruments Inc-produced floating point unit because it 's controlling all design and all fabrication . |
8 | ‘ It 's encouraging that work is being made which refuses this ridiculous demand for positive images , which tries to take on multiple aspects of identity . |
9 | 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 ? |
10 | Well actually , the function of the youth bus is like in the absence of buildings in , in area 's where people want to go , it 's fulfilling that function , on the bus there are things like videos , people can play music , they also get erm , you know , we do n't just let them do what they want to do , although were , you know , where quite erm , quite progressive with them , we actually provide , we have information on the the bus , provide information , we 've got a Coun we involve local Councillor 's like on Aids and stuff like that , I mean you have to be quite sensitive when you do something like that , you know especially if , you know , with the age group , erm , but erm , you know you get younger people coming on , twelve year olds to thirteen year old and what not . |
11 | This is a unhelpful because it 's winding that way yet it looks as if it 's winding that way , does n't it ? |
12 | This is a unhelpful because it 's winding that way yet it looks as if it 's winding that way , does n't it ? |
13 | Some cloners think Sun regrets making previous Sparcstations too easy to knock off so it 's putting some obstacles in the way . |
14 | But th there 's a s a strong campaign to have Cafe Direct taken by supermarkets and there 's a lot of people putting a lot of energy into this and , and at present it 's , it 's , it 's showing those results . |
15 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
16 | It 's having that knowledge you know |
17 | It 's staging its own marches to counter the official demonstration and it 's changing some street names back to what they were before the revolution . |
18 | Erm , you know it 's saying that motherhood is a good thing , but let's not exert ourselves too greatly to do anything about it . |
19 | It 's offering all organisations using DECstations a free single-user copy of its X.desktop manager ( which runs on all DEC operating system platforms ) . |
20 | behind so it it 's it 's growing that way |
21 | Well it 's funny it 's working this time int it ? |
22 | LOS ANGELES ' hottest T-shirt , and it 's heading this way : ‘ I survived the 100 per cent off sale at Fedco ’ |
23 | Additional information really , is , as I had missed the train comma , but it 's , er , you 've got to have a comma after train , because it 's following that rule that was given in the top left hand corner , after I cashed my Giro comma , because of the derailment comma , it 's it 's that rule , it 's the application of that rule . |
24 | Oh , it 's going all morning . |
25 | Because it 's doing more work is n't it ? |
26 | Because it 's doing this thing all the time is n't it ? |
27 | Recently , fashion has been very safe , but now it 's becoming more aggressive , it 's making more statements , and the French are going to do well because of that , ’ says Guy Tolson . |
28 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
29 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
30 | Why does it record on that way and yet it 's running that way ? |