Example sentences of "is be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , well , what I 'm ringing about is am I allowed back in there or am I barred ? |
| 2 | All other doctrines are very secondary to that , and the question is are we to express that reality or must we continue to obscure it . |
| 3 | Er and the other point which e you might like to comment is are they in effect set out in any order of precedence . |
| 4 | All the court wants to know is are you pleading guilty or not guilty . |
| 5 | The only thing about work is are you working with oil ? |
| 6 | I went into the gardens one Sunday morning with the dog found a body in a sleeping bag and I really did n't know whether I thought it was alive or not alive so I went rather closer and I got a very defensive angry stare from a young man and I said to him I 'm not going to ask you to move , because you 've probably got nowhere to go , my real concern is are you okay . |
| 7 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 8 | As you say the main problem is , as you say is are you going to change your whole team , game |
| 9 | The question is are you actually interes , attracted to her enough to want to , you know what are you |
| 10 | Choppy Spencer is are you prepared to accept the conclusion that some people might be suggesting right now that this whole stunt of opting out is a political fumble ? |
| 11 | This is were I pull this up and go . |
| 12 | So you 've been robbed , raped and swindled , the question is were you asking for it ? and what are you going to do about it now ? |
| 13 | And the other thing is were you running from the hard drive or from that floppy ? cos I did n't want the tape-recorder travelling . |
| 14 | And my aunty Gwendoline said is were you asleep ? |
| 15 | There 's a little tiny bit to tinker with , but it 's not if we were to , we , we 're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our |
| 16 | Now is a good moment to emphasize that however friendly and informal the interviewer is being you should not fall into the trap of overfamiliarity . |
| 17 | And I think that 's what a lot of problem with condemned by the G P is is they 're not able to articulate the unhappiness that 's coming from the eating disorder , so they 're told to go away and put on a couple of pounds and because they have n't expressed that feeling the G P ca n't or is n't thinking enough to try and and poke into it a little bit more . |
| 18 | And that 's about What what what it is is they 've just someone 's asked me if I 'll just do some recordings of some of the lessons . |
| 19 | I mean what really your hope in looking after that is is they will come up with some idea of publishing . |
| 20 | All it is is they just want you to tape anything and ev , it 's just voice patterns basically and the |
| 21 | the difficulty is is we need a mechanism , but the |
| 22 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 23 | But what we could do of course , is is we put in a time between containers , we could always use them to re-palletize it . |
| 24 | Part of the reason for doing it is is we can actually say we did it , so we can tell people despite the fact that they get the programme . |
| 25 | Erm and then the next one after that is is I know is March the fifteenth which is Adrian who 's the er woodworker . |
| 26 | Now some of those groups , or one of them at least , is is I think you 're saying a very friendly and sociable group and does n't present many social problems . |
| 27 | yeah , I did that today what that is is you know |
| 28 | and we we see what is fed to us there , we pick up , you pick up the you know , the comic strip papers you know , yo you see headlines there , most of it is is you know Tory sort of dominated . |
| 29 | Erm and basically what it is is it 's a government sponsored this er which erm well the rules may have changed cos they 're always changing the rules of these things . |
| 30 | The first thing to do is is it making an E sound this I E ? |