Example sentences of "it [is] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last 6 months , it 's suffered more than 500 job losses . |
| 2 | I suppose it 's getting more than one tape done now |
| 3 | It 's cost more than a million pounds , but staff and children say it 's worth every penny . |
| 4 | It 's raining heavily as I wrap myself in my gascape and move further to the back of the trench . |
| 5 | In all , it 's hoped more than 5,000 jobs will be created . |
| 6 | Ooh I know , but it 's staying off so you 'll realise why ! |
| 7 | Druid 's Bottom was a fine house once , though it 's run down since Mr Gotobed passed on and Dilys took bad . |
| 8 | A coach firm is claiming that it 's owed more than two thousand pounds by a charity set up to help Bosnian children . |
| 9 | See so it 's just by learning the pattern it 's like say if you were you were playing football every time somebody every time the ball came towards you you had to learn all about the way the ball goes Oh it 's you know it 's slowing down cos the grass is wet and it 's curling and things like that . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's comin' on though , ’ Tam waved to the barman and held up two fingers . |
| 11 | It 's expected more than 1,000 soldiers will move in next year . |
| 12 | Again you make sure it 's lifted up so there is a draft . |
| 13 | It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this . |
| 14 | Now , however , it is refusing to confirm that the trials have actually gone ahead , saying only that ‘ It 's taken longer than we anticipated ’ . |
| 15 | And there 's no wonder it 's blowing away cos it 's just lighter than air . |
| 16 | it 's coming downhill when it rains , the |
| 17 | And i i it magnifies the sound as it 's coming through so you 're lying there and you think , there 's somebody in the back ! |
| 18 | Right it goes to show it 's working so if I just get rid of the earphones . |
| 19 | " Well , as long as it 's put back where you found it . |
| 20 | Hong Kong 's special interest to the zoologist is that it is situated practically where two zoo-geographical regions meet , the Oriental , in which it actually lies , and the Palaearctic . |
| 21 | It is constructed rather than discovered by the historian . |
| 22 | It is broken only when his neighbour is injured and not before . |
| 23 | This Act embraces a vast number of persons holding public office of a specified sort ; it is amended regularly as new offices are created and persons appointed to them . |
| 24 | Most studies consider only social behaviour in the herd , or readily observed facts , such as that the horse is easily frightened , or that it will work better if it is rewarded rather than punished . |
| 25 | It is gone even before the predator can gather its wits and make chase . |
| 26 | Er , I went on to say throughout the ages the government has repealed legislation , there 's nothing new about repealing legislation it is repealed either because it is proved unworkable or because it 's simply outlived its shelf life . |
| 27 | It is seen best when the homologous chromosomes are pairing at meiosis I. Since equivalent loci lie adjacent to one another ( loops or twists indicate these mutations having occurred ) the result is the alteration of the number or sequence of genes on the chromosome . |
| 28 | It is rejected simply because it is a programme , because it denies the initiative , imagination and inventiveness of the teacher in contact with the child . |
| 29 | Eden is always somewhere else , or someone else 's — or else it is snatched away after only a moment , at most , or only distantly seen , felt or known . |
| 30 | It is taking longer than expected . |