Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason so many things are delayed is that they have to be perfect . |
| 2 | ‘ What you are suggesting is that this Andropulos is some kind of mastermind — possible world co-ordinator — of drug-smuggling ? |
| 3 | What we are suggesting is that such an education does not add up to learning to be independent , to participating in and contributing to one 's own community , either as a child or later as an adult , as the aims of education purport . |
| 4 | I have been talking about experiences which affect both men and women ; what I am suggesting is that the role of the Weaving Mother is to spin a thread , a bond , from the ‘ raw material ’ proffered by the male . |
| 5 | What I am suggesting is that both my aunt 's remark and her attitude stemmed from assumptions already prevalent within the family as to what was appropriate behaviour . |
| 6 | What I am suggesting is that you should not underrate your ability to succeed in what is now a highly competitive market place . |
| 7 | What I am suggesting is that if education is for all then it must meet all needs . |
| 8 | All I am suggesting is that the balancing exercise should be capable of being performed . |
| 9 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
| 10 | What I am suggesting is that Spenser 's texts offer glimpses of issues which Elizabethan culture found awkward to confront directly — a belief in the precariousness of its civilisation given the existence of savagery ( exemplified by other customs , baser classes , other religions ) confronting a self-defined orderly minority . |
| 11 | So what I am suggesting is that you do n't accept this resolution and you accept a modified or amended version of it . |
| 12 | What I am suggesting is that I think if you if you concentrate only on the question of who are the chief officers that 's very important and that 's very indicative , but it 's not the whole story . |
| 13 | We are told that " the reason why constituencies of about five members are recommended is that they form communities [ ? ] where electors may be expected to have sufficient personal knowledge of the candidates ' . |
| 14 | And what happens to the little oxygens once they 're discarded is that they do n't go back and join an oxygen molecule . |
| 15 | So the implication of that study and it 's a rather astonishing one , although it fits exactly with , with the argument we 're developing is that because these , these women were living in very difficult circumstances , in prison , they were even more discriminating about the offspring they were actually and they did n't carry a single one to term that had a birth defect . |
| 16 | Now the debate we 're having is whether or not we fill those and transfer , not go and recruit extra people but we 'd reduce the S I S , cos one of the issues is that erm the overspend on Marvin is seven figures . |
| 17 | Three point one okay so this is where the model , in effect what we 've done which is a very crude way , right , of erm incorporating exogamous influences , right , we have n't said tha that the war is going to affect the income or price elasticity what we did do , right , all that we 're doing is that we 're allowing the intercept of our model to change , right , now as a result , we 've got , we can prove the st the statistical significance of all the variables in our model , right , the co the actual coefficients that we 've estimated have changed quite significant , particularly in the er the incoming elasticity , right , the incoming elasticity was less than one , right , and insignificance before was now greater than one and height of R squared has also increased dramatically our measure of explanatory power . |
| 18 | Right , okay , erm let's now move on to er these other diagnostics , right , like test for structural change these diagnostic test statistics that are calculated for right , because essentially what they 're doing is that they 're testing the assumptions on which ordinary leased squares is based . |
| 19 | Now we can just rearrange that expression to get the expectation of prices for the period T , right all we 're doing is that we 're adding P T minus two , P T minus one to both sides , alright and we 'll get gamma into P T minus one erm , plus open brackets mi minus gamma into expectation at T minus two of prices at T minus one okay . |
| 20 | Now if you can go there all you 're doing is if you 're showing interest and you qualify like you reckon is it going to be worth my while , what sort of people go there , you know the R N I . |
| 21 | And what we 're doing is if you just look at your pack now , everybody who writes to us , it does n't matter what they want , whether it 's favours of crackers , they 're getting a brochure which you know our brochure , which has the favours and crackers on . |
| 22 | But what we 're doing is as the resistance gets lower we get more current through . |
| 23 | When it comes down to it , all you 're saying is that the likes of Tina Turner and Mick Hucknall have created a bloated travesty of soul . |
| 24 | ‘ So what you 're saying is that Bernard 's the only person who knows when the hit on Mobuto 's going to take place ? ’ |
| 25 | I mean you could have , if you have basically what we 're saying is that you have a whole load of of subject reports and on the top of it you 've got form tutor report |
| 26 | But what you 're saying is that when you accelerate — when you go faster and faster in an upwards direction — as you did coming out of that big drop — it 's like adding extra gravity . |
| 27 | So what you 're saying is that erm as most people are s such a high percentage of people in the flats , have pr have erm serious problems , it means it 's basically th basically that all all their energy goes into actually trying |
| 28 | If I 've got this right , then what you 're saying is that I do n't need to feel any jealousy about the multiplicity of your sexual partners , because you 're married . |
| 29 | ‘ What you 're saying is that unless I postpone my return to England Grantham and Marsh do n't stand an iceberg 's chance in hell of getting your account ? ’ she asked baldly . |
| 30 | What you 're saying is that by committing suicide in 1977 , none of this could occur . ’ |