Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] [is] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 The problem with being an astrologer is that everyone is always pestering you to find out what 's to happen in the next few days .
2 ‘ The trouble is that she 's constantly demanding , day and night . ’
3 The third aspect of the egalitarian feminist address to sex differences psychology is that it is increasingly trying to take the diversity of these differences into account .
4 The problem in Europe is that it is already becoming difficult to decide where ultimately authority does reside .
5 While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so .
6 Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union .
7 The only reason that , that you 're using a different clef is that it 's actually putting middle C in a different place .
8 The long term trend is that it 's actually going to be more room at the top of the market I think .
9 Pound may be right or wrong about the merits of Binyon 's version , as about the sorts of language that are acceptable in verse translation ; what is certain is that he 's here applying to diction a sort of sliding scale or set of variable standards such as Ford 's principles did n't allow for .
10 The situation with Stephen Marshall is that he is now working his notice , and is no longer Computer Support Officer .
11 The commonest explanation of King Hussein 's behaviour is that he is only doing what he has always done best : surviving .
12 I 'm just thinking now that er we changed lots of things , the heads and things of that nature so it was If it 's just producing the same cage
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