Example sentences of "[Wh det] the [noun] is [v-ing] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes we find that getting across the message and the work which the Council is doing is not always an easy one . |
| 2 | The chair , wheelchair or commode onto which the patient is transferring is placed on one side of the carer , sideways on to the bed . |
| 3 | Software for most econometric analyses that should be included in the packages which the Centre is producing is already available from academic sources . |
| 4 | Assistance may only be granted , however , where the Commissioner believes that the breach of rule about which the member is complaining is one which affects or may affect other members of the union or that similar breaches of the rules have been or may be committed in relation to other members of the union . |
| 5 | The analysts can not comprehend current or future information requirements unless the direction in which the organisation is going is identified . |
| 6 | The salesperson first agrees that what the buyer is saying is sensible and reasonable , before then putting forward an alternative point of view . |
| 7 | Aha , the textbooks reply , you 're missing the point : what the girl is doing is seeking a replacement for the security that was roughly torn from her ; she is looking for a father who wo n't desert her . |
| 8 | The best way of achieving this is to secure that what the mirror is reflecting is interesting — perhaps plants , pictures , or even a fireplace . |
| 9 | So do you know what the price is going be ? |
| 10 | Attacking what he said was the limited usefulness of the measures , he said : ‘ The situation is so desperate that anything seems better than nothing , even when what the Government is proposing is next to nothing . ’ |
| 11 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 12 | What the MLC is doing is trying to keep the meat-eating habit going ; to expand — or at least to slow down the contraction of — the overall market . |
| 13 | Essentially , what the firm is doing is to reap an additional return on the capital already invested at home in developing the product by transferring its know-how across frontiers . |
| 14 | ‘ What the campaign is seeking is a Meirionnydd-based authority , and all the evidence indicates that the people of Meirionnydd are backing us strongly . ’ |
| 15 | What the doctor is saying is that he had to continue treatment , because it was right to do so as a matter of public policy . |
| 16 | What the audience is watching is Lear 's expressive behaviour , not the actor 's . |
| 17 | And although the APR quoted in the above follow-on example is an accurate expression of the cost of the loan , there is a sense in which what the consumer is borrowing is only that £15.87 cash in hand . |
| 18 | What the professional is doing is offering a framework within which parents can learn skills to solve their own problems . |