Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such craters are now known elsewhere in the Solar System as you have already seen in the case of Mars , and therefore the mechanism by which they are formed is of widespread relevance . |
| 2 | That it is inconceivable that after this number of centuries man still believes that ultimately the only way in which problems are solved is by blowing the other chap 's head off , which is so lunatic now . |
| 3 | Assuming it to be out there somewhere they have joined forces with the Utopians and Marxists and missed the fact that the spiritual galaxy for which they are searching is like the Milky Way . |
| 4 | ‘ Currently the most important influence we 're seeing is from athletic sportswear . |
| 5 | It 's a pity in a way that we did n't have this discussion before , because I do think it 's important and I think parties these days , goodness knows what we 're matching is to , should be a bit and they want more , sort of less than putting in less fifty percent . |
| 6 | This bridge we 're guarding is of great strategic importance . |
| 7 | ‘ Celeste may attend every Grand Prix , but — ’ his dark brown eyes met hers ‘ — that wo n't stop the gossips assuming that the next place we 're heading is into bed . ’ |
| 8 | The property is inspected by a valuer who tells us whether the place you 're buying is worth what we 'll be lending — not what you 're paying for it . |
| 9 | So , on the seventh floor the floor tiles are next and the next job they 're doing is on the eighth which is more floor tiling . |
| 10 | Whatever they 're doing is by their own choice . ’ |
| 11 | Councillor regrets that er we 're bringing council rents up by nine and half percent but what we 're doing is in fact precisely what his government is recommending us to do , so I 'm a little sup so would councillor kindly at some point explain why he regrets his own government 's policy . |
| 12 | Housework and organizing a home and looking after small children is very much context creating all the time , and you 're doing is in your capacity as a relation of , you know , certain males , other people of your family . |
| 13 | That 's right if you er so this point two quantifies the effect of the war on our equation , and where is the so the intercept , well what you 're saying is in peacetime the intercept is equation three point one seven , however , in war time the intercept shifts up and is now three point one seven plus point two , |
| 14 | In my mind while you 're talking is about these three children who presumably er this gentleman 's wife was supposed to be looking after on thirty pounds a week . |
| 15 | Well that site they 're proposing is over my private road . |
| 16 | The way you limit which files are shown is through the Search button . |
| 17 | The price range you are considering is between £120,000 and £150,000 . |
| 18 | One way in which probabilistic models are employed is to progressively classify the input based on predecessors and move along , using this information as the predecessor for the next element in the input . |
| 19 | One way in which such factors are isolated is by comparing parents known to batter their children with a control group of parents who have no history of child abuse ( Lynch and Roberts 1977 , for example ) . |
| 20 | Erm but one of the things that I am doing is over the next quarter with , various people begin to review the cleaning schedules of what they actually do , whether we clean them on a on a more frequent basis rather than just responding that particular area . |
| 21 | What I am doing is for the youngsters . ’ |
| 22 | Instead , when the large practices make cutbacks , the favourite route for those who are axed is into self employment . |
| 23 | Sometimes if you 've made a mistake and the parallel I 'm drawing is with the Jewish community in Jesus time . |
| 24 | what I 'm saying is with Arthur says get yourself four hundred pound go to aunty Mary 's , but you do n't want to go to aunty Mary 's do ya ? , you 'd rather her come here |
| 25 | All I 'm saying is at the moment , she ca n't apparently cope with the demand on her for bags . |
| 26 | yeah that 's what I 'm saying is at the moment the thing is you |
| 27 | The only area that I 'm saying is in need for careful consideration is that related to risks associated with the possibilities of food poisoning and very high-risk food handling . |
| 28 | Now in a sense erm the question I 'm asking is by introducing lots of modern machinery , you could perhaps kill a particular trade or craftsmanship in a whole group of people which may , in fact , be their key for erm future survival |
| 29 | The other discovery we are making is of that world cut off from us for fifty years by the Iron Curtain ; Simon Jervis 's otherwise excellent Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers published in 1984 does not include a single one of the leading names in Czech Cubist design : Josef Gocar , Pavel Janak , Vlastislav Hofman , Josef Chochol and Otakar Novotny . |
| 30 | One of the most common ways viruses are spread is via unauthorized floppy disks . |