Example sentences of "[subord] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm it 's very very hot , it can reach 40x or 42x centigrade , sand blown , inadequate shelter and at the moment , something like 10,000 more people coming across the border each day than are leaving the country . |
| 2 | More shells are passing over our heads on their way to blast the enemy positions , than are coming our way . |
| 3 | More people are leaving the large cities than are arriving in them . |
| 4 | He would , he says , much prefer to have hands on the business , rather than be sitting behind a desk . |
| 5 | By the second day , more viewers were watching North than were watching the daytime soap operas , As the World Turns and General Hospital . |
| 6 | Derek who exposed the fraud , took the trouble of consulting the police records , for Samoa , at the time when Margaret , was there , and although Margaret claimed there was no rape in Samoa , because children were brought up so nicely , in this kind of , tropical paradise that she , that she portrayed in the book , the fact is , according to the police records , there were more rapes in Samoa , while Margaret , than were occurring in New York at the time was writing , during the nineteen eighties |
| 7 | Jobs , government officials say , are much less of a problem than is housing . |
| 8 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 9 | Okay , cos were going out , so we can pick her up on the way out , about seven ? |
| 10 | I doubt if were gon na get . |
| 11 | But Paul Ince who was the driving force of this victory , which lifted United into third place , warned the Frenchman : ‘ He did some lovely things and he can do the flicks all day if we are winning , but if were losing he 's got to get his foot stuck in . |
| 12 | If were going to be privatised — we need a saleable chunk , ’ he said . |
| 13 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 14 | She 'll deal it out , you know , but , if were going to Alan Bay she 'll give us enough money for a a sand thing , . |
| 15 | If , if were going to give them transfer real wealth , machine tools and all the rest . |
| 16 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |
| 17 | Yeah I did n't know that at all and erm she said , she goes , I went oh but he does n't know anything , how would he , he would n't even know who I am , he would n't you know , how can he tell if 's writing a fair report |
| 18 | I mean quite , if , if 's saying this you do it . |
| 19 | So he 's got all his bricks up virtually I think he said , but I ai n't worried about it cos I 'll get rid of them somewhere and I helped him out , I sold this car and , and told him what I was doing and he come I 've just the thing for you , just cos was having bricks like your dad 's , the sand grain sort of brick , you know . |
| 20 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 21 | If was going to be in that room in the vicinity of the bed presumably two places he could be , under the duvet or under the bed . |
| 22 | Also organisations like ours are members of the Construction Industry Training Board so for instance if was going along we might get a from the C I T B so I mean grants might be available if people rout around for them . |
| 23 | Ah , but we we got some gear on site because been working on them so . |
| 24 | But but but we 're only charging twice as much as would erm because are providing a standard bearing . |
| 25 | Well it 's just been extraordinarily successful er and I know I interrupted what you 're saying , think it 's been successful because are beginning to care again |
| 26 | Why is that ? , is it because there 's too much traffic ? , because were driving badly ? , yes |
| 27 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 28 | I mean , I know he 's the star and all that , but I 'm damned if-I 'm going to be upstaged , even by him … ’ |
| 29 | Now I think , er and I 'm sure that Mrs will , I 've I 've got other information as well , that we could , I , I , I 'd like to recommend that we had an on going petition which could be in Welfare Rights , the Town Hall , The Libraries , but there 's no , I do n't think there 's an opposition to such a thing , whereby we ask for a P D S A clinic in Harlow , I 'm sure there 's room round where they were sit , sited before , and I do n't know , you know , I 'd like to know what Mrs 's thinks , also I 've got information er , a , following lots of phone calls erm there is an organisation called The Blue Cross , they have a clinic in Victoria and they 're , they have a head office in Oxford and they will help if they know the name of the vet and have the invoice and I 'm afraid it 's tested , but they will help pensioner 's and other low paid people to meet there bill 's , so that 's another outcome , while were doing the petition . |
| 30 | And while were doing that , we should thank Mary for her seven years stint that she 's done on . |