Example sentences of "[v-ing] be this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the blue flames are What 's happening is this , there 's two reactions taking place in that coke fire . |
| 2 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 3 | What was happening was this . |
| 4 | no , no , well when I , when I get it , the thing that gets me going is this , that complete car cost me er six thousand , eight hundred |
| 5 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 6 | So the question I am wondering is this : does the person Albie owed money to — the man behind Vinnie Dirkin — know who it was that killed him ? |
| 7 | Well the angle we 're measuring is this one here what angle are we going to measure ? |
| 8 | Because the the nettle I 'm grasping is this ah it is said by the , both of them , that it was you who had what they call a long barrelled gun , it must be a shotgun . |
| 9 | ‘ What I 'm saying is this . |
| 10 | What I am saying is this . |
| 11 | What the critics , of the trade unions and managements alike , are really saying is this : that they do not like normality with all its faults . |
| 12 | So what I 'm saying is this will appropriate for year seven , eight , nine and ten |
| 13 | ‘ What I 'm saying is this : there are a handful of your new designs that I think are too special to be included in the general collection . ’ |
| 14 | What I 'm saying is this . |
| 15 | ‘ What I 'm saying is this … ’ |
| 16 | So what they 're saying is this that the square on that side |
| 17 | Now it 's jolly difficult to follow an argument of that time when it 's read — I appreciate that — but what I think Darwin is actually saying is this , that it 's true that vertebrates , for example — all vertebrates , from fish to ourselves — have a common pattern of a rigid rod down the middle of the back , segmented muscles either side of it , a mouth at the front , a hollow nerve chord on top , two pairs of fins or legs derived from them , but not three pairs or one pair , but two pairs and so on . |
| 18 | So what you see people doing is this , oh no , you should n't do that . |
| 19 | There 's a tremen oh yes , yeah , there is a limit , so maybe what you 're doing is just assessing is this going to give er problems or have we got put a gang on specifically moving things around . |
| 20 | pure time wasting is this |
| 21 | Where you went skiing is this side of Austria , but Vienna is about two hundred and two hundred and fifty miles further on across Austria , very close to erm Czechoslovakia and erm Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |