Example sentences of "it be [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the reasons for it are accommodating the release of people to , like Pam , Lewis and Ron and people like that whom we 've released , erm and the experienced temps then you can at least say when they come back then that position should revert back to the norm . |
| 2 | The computer system will only bring the returns that the company expects if the people using it are using the system fully , which can be guaranteed through investment in adequate training . |
| 3 | The marks of a corporation are : perpetual succession , i.e. the death or withdrawal of members , or the addition of new members from time to time , does not impair the continuity and identity of the body : ‘ in like manner ’ , as Blackstone says , ‘ the river Thames is still the same river , though the parts which comprise it are changing every instant' ; the use of a common seal as evidence of at least the more formal acts of the corporation ; and the capacity to sue and be sued by its corporate name . |
| 4 | Well would n't it be making a point if erm everybody who was owed this time took it regardless |
| 5 | Should it be exhibiting a work which , in all probability , was obtained from its legal owner by fraudulent means ? |
| 6 | The people who said it were telling the truth . |
| 7 | To say that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is to say this : among possible worlds where it is raining , the one which overall is most like our actual world is also one in which the balcony is wet . |
| 8 | Again , does " If it were raining the balcony would be wet " mean something about other ways that the world would be different , over and above the balcony 's being wet , if there were the difference that it was raining ? |
| 9 | What we have as premiss for the dependent conditional that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is roughly this : in that possible world most like our own in which it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 10 | Perspective telescopes : with my nasty coffee , I read a report on race riots in my native city , where family and friends remain , as if it were recounting the behaviour of black and white mice in cramped and stressful lab conditions . |
| 11 | And out of the disorder of the mangled metal work comes a process as flowing and systematic as if it were building a pristine model from scratch . |
| 12 | In a title search , for example , a search for an incomplete or garbled title would lead to the choice of a title index display or a search for titles containing the words of the search , and thenceforth behave rather as if it were doing a subject search . |
| 13 | Why we have gone so long using our branch network as though it were doing the information job . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Chancellor Helmut Kohl yesterday described German longing for unity as an historic fact and said those trying to ignore it were making a ‘ serious mistake ’ . |
| 15 | Almost as if it were playing a game . |
| 16 | There were a few exceptions to prove the rule , but by and large the Commons looked as if it were fighting the class war rather than debating the need for the protection of wild mammals . |
| 17 | Do you feel that it 's pointing the right way , bringing the sun in through the right windows at the right time of day ? |
| 18 | It 's maintaining the diet for longer and keeping the weight off which is the tricky part . |
| 19 | erm , and er , sometimes even pleased to say well I 'll try to get you in purple , but er , nowadays erm , we , we do n't go in for that because there 's , there 's so many er shops now that selling lighting fittings erm and selling nothing else , there is n't one actually in Harlow , but there 's one in Epping and there 's one in Stortford , erm that er , it 's , it 's riding a new car people want to see er a good variety of them , have a look at a lot or a washing machine or anything like that , you want to see many before you buy one . |
| 20 | It only works in the direction in which it 's throwing the ions . |
| 21 | IT 'S seeing the funny side that keeps Les Barker buoyant . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's seeing the university as a factory where people are given identifiable , quantifiable market skills which plug into an entrepreneurial vision of society . |
| 23 | It 's meeting the people . |
| 24 | It is n't the cooking , it 's knowing the meal 's going to be there . |
| 25 | But it 's knowing the right things . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's shocking the way we are being used by some clubs to further their own ends . |
| 27 | It 's overshadowing the proceedings of this conference and other union conferences . |
| 28 | It 's rising a bit now . |
| 29 | Well we 've been very concerned to try and develop our policies and services and we find this report very helpful because it has given us a very clear lead as to the sort of things which are necessary , and in many ways it 's supporting the ideas which we 've had . |
| 30 | It 's remembering the formulas and stuff that 's er is the is the major thing , because I know , like in the class , I 've not actually had a lesson where I 've done bad . |