Example sentences of "is [v-ing] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the other thing , when the ball is turning and your partner is turning it mild and getting wickets . |
| 2 | I 've given you all a choice , but you 're the only one who is getting it straight , all cards on the table . |
| 3 | The real ballgame is getting it right , building something up . |
| 4 | is getting it all wrong . |
| 5 | And as I say , Bill is doing it all at cost , so , you know , he 's not making anything out of it , himself . |
| 6 | ‘ If you look the way the snow falls , ’ he said hesitantly , ‘ you can see the air conditioning is blowing it this way , ’ he pointed , ‘ so it piles up more on this side of things than that side . |
| 7 | I question whether the inspectorate is giving it due consideration . |
| 8 | In fact Rachel is taking it easy with a perfumed chicken korma , I 'm looking forward to my tandoori biriani , and we share a mixed vegetable bahjee , some chutneys , and a great omelette of nan bread . |
| 9 | Employees at Echo Logic Inc , the AT&T-owned start-up , which is making it possible for Apple Computer Inc to run Mac programs on PowerPCs ( UX No 385 ) , are reportedly negotiating with Mama to get a 20+% chunk of the company as sweat equity . |
| 10 | So we would hope that by releasing that article fourteen direction at that stage , all we would really be doing is making it possible for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetus from real life applications within the general locations specified in the structure plan . |
| 11 | Dressed in white tie , his delivery is conversational and informal , but , to sustain the illusion that he is making it all up as he goes along ( it is in fact directed by Peter Barkworth ) , he launches into too many rambling sidetracks . |
| 12 | Reversing it — diluting HEU by adding less enriched uranium — is easy , and America is making it profitable as well . |
| 13 | That is what is making it attractive to private buyers , whereas here the Government naively believes the opposite , that privatisation of itself will do the trick . |
| 14 | The continued flood of repossessed properties on to the market is depressing prices , which in turn is making it difficult for the building societies and other lenders to take the normal escape route for those who are unable to keep up their payments — the sale of the house . |
| 15 | Ironically , their improvement , coupled with their highly superior resources , is making it difficult for smaller , less well funded schemes to survive . |
| 16 | And with good reason : the signs are that Saatchi is finding it difficult to sell the management consultancy division alone . |
| 17 | In the 1960s , the food supply system of Butare was reported to be adequate ; twenty years later we have reasons to believe that Butare 's steadily increasing population is finding it difficult to maintain the grip on familiar supply mechanisms . |
| 18 | She had a restless night and is finding it difficult to sleep because of the memories of the attack . |
| 19 | BP Exploration has been using the process for three years and is finding it popular and productive . |
| 20 | Your boyfriend is finding it hard to come to terms with the prospect of fatherhood and is taking his resentment out on you . |
| 21 | This would raise a wry smile from the Dutch manager , Thijs Libregts , who is finding it hard to discover a matching pair . |
| 22 | Eddery has since lost his title to Michael Roberts , the first South African jockey to win it , and Scudamore is finding it hard to close the growing daylight between himself and leader Richard Dunwoody . |
| 23 | Souness said : ‘ Bruce is finding it hard to accept he is no longer the automatic No 1 . |
| 24 | Though his new house has been named Durham Cottage , with fond memories of home , a friend tells us that Lord Dormand still Jack to most people is finding it hard to adjust . |
| 25 | So , she is finding it hard . |
| 26 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 27 | Erm but the idea that someone is putting it all down , all those private conversations , all those tensions , and it 's all being recorded , not to present the historic truth , but to present the truth as the person wants history to read it . |
| 28 | The palace is playing it all down but clearly this visit is not going according to plan . |
| 29 | Rufus is playing it close . |
| 30 | But coach Bob Dwyer is playing it cagey over his choice to succeed injured skipper Michael Lynagh at fly-half for Saturday week 's Test against Wales in Cardiff . |