Example sentences of "[v-ing] what [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course he is right on his serious point about debt and that is why my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been so energetic in pressing what are called the Trinidad terms to enable the poorest countries of the world to benefit from those terms . |
| 2 | Although physicists are having some difficulty in deciding what are the fundamental particles of which matter and energy are composed , they seem to agree that there are fundamental particles . |
| 3 | Unless we can devise an IQ test that can be administered to an embryo in utero , there is no way of deciding what are the limits of a person 's intelligence potential . |
| 4 | Authors who recognize the significance of manipulation , indoctrination , or ‘ conditioned power ’ ( Galbraith , 1985 ) believe that people may make mistakes in deciding what are their interests , and accept definitions of their interests foisted upon them by the powerful . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're at an interesting point deciding what are the priorities for the next century ’ , he continued , ‘ and the areas to expand are education , and the use of technology in education ’ . |
| 6 | The first will be called the problem of analysis : we may accept the principle of the phoneme as a fundamental unit in language , but we find difficulty in deciding what are the phonemes of a language ( in our case , of English ) . |
| 7 | it 's just , this lot have voted for them again , I 'm going what are the red ones ? |
| 8 | No but er I saw Heidi when I was on my way down to the grubber and Heidi had a slightly massive armful of chocolate , I was going what are you doing , she said I 've got ta go and make Sophie sick |
| 9 | The justification for excluding controversial truths from the original position lies in the social role of justice , which is ‘ to enable all members of society to make mutually acceptable to one another their shared institutions and basic arrangements , by citing what are publicly recognized as sufficient reasons . ’ |
| 10 | For years the Japanese have tried to match IBM by selling what are called plug compatibles . |
| 11 | The main aim , usually , is to show that sentences containing what are regarded as bogus designators can be adequately replaced by other sentences which do not contain such designators , and hence that the " real " topic in the given instance is in fact different to what it appears to be . |
| 12 | This is because in considering what are the interests of the shareholders the directors are not obliged actually to consider what the subjective desires of the shareholders might be . |
| 13 | Right this big union , and it is a big union in n it , big Labour Party what are they doing what are we doing to help people like these up here ? |
| 14 | But Claire said they kept coming up to her and saying what are you erm what do you stand as being county for ? |
| 15 | NatWest 's evidence to the committee , signed by Lord Alexander and his chief executive Tom Frost , says inspectors should ‘ complete their inquiries independently , indicating what are their findings of fact , but not pass judgment by drawing conclusions ’ . |
| 16 | Instead of letting our success lead us into a fat-cat mentality , it led us much more strongly and much faster into a mentality of asking what are we going to do with it . |
| 17 | I ought to explain that in this talk I am not attacking fundamentalism as such — I am in fact asking what are its strengths , weaknesses and challenges . |
| 18 | Ullman thus attempts to follow Lloyd Morgan 's Canon , asking what are the minimal computational processes that need to be posited to explain motion-perception . |
| 19 | I want to start by asking what are the risks that the Delors plan — the origin of European economic and monetary union — will suffer the same fate as the Werner plan did 20 years ago . |
| 20 | SOME of these difficulties might be avoided if the United Nations would broaden its approach to consider the possibility of punishing what are now called international crimes . |
| 21 | Especially knowing what are always in there , Stuart 's always on the door cos he lives in Keighley . |
| 22 | The author does a sterling job in painstakingly assembling a large corpus of evidence from a vast variety of sources , taking us through a welter of contemporary descriptions and extrapolating what are almost invariably convincing conclusions from the visual evidence . |
| 23 | By contrast , the leading British electronics firms rely on making what are called ‘ specials ’ . |
| 24 | Making comparisons between species involves identifying what are known as homologous structures . |
| 25 | In the early days of cable , manual signalling was employed , using what are known as cable code signalling ( Fig. 3 . ) . |
| 26 | Many of those who were using what are known as curly bows also shoot longbows . |
| 27 | Er , looking through the officer workload ratios in paragraph four , it shows that using what are in honesty fairly crude Home Office measures , we 're really quite well to the national average , that we carry out approximately four hundred and thirty three inspections per officer in a year as opposed to the expected four hundred and eighty two . |
| 28 | The County Council has been very active in trying to find a way forward which retains the objective of relieving the A ten eighty eight of lorries , but reduces the rat run in through the small villages using what are no more than country lanes . |
| 29 | Constituents may be vocal in demanding what are seen as cruder and more punitive measures than their MP feels comfortable with . |
| 30 | Between 1493 and 1501 James IV began building what are now known as the Historic Apartments in the northwest corner of the Palace . |