Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] [is] " in BNC.

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1 But the notion of things which are naturally hidden is most important for Gassendi .
2 You certainly wo n't miraculously ensure perfect spelling by helping pupils to use dictionaries , but you will find that it 's time well spent , because the main use to which dictionaries are normally put is to check spellings .
3 Well as I 've s as I 've said earlier , erm what we 're basically saying is that because these erm sites do not perform a greenbelt function and er they then fall into a white land situation , that that white land is a is an area of land that becomes er at the end of the plan period in two thousand and six , er they are areas which could be considered development .
4 Wh what you 're also saying is , is right though , that within that the danger is that inequalities get too great and you would also need a set of policies which would stop that inequality .
5 So , I believe that what you 're also saying is that even if there were war , that would n't necessarily mean that the tap would suddenly turn off and there 'd be no more oil coming out of the Middle East ?
6 Yeah but the only thing you 're really doing is , is taking away this nominal erm exploitive relationship , you 're still gon na be exploiting the of existing
7 And they may not be able to cope with that , which is why I am always a little bit anxious if marriages break up very quickly , because it might indicate that what they 're really doing is just going into that second phase .
8 What you 're really saying is that I 've no right to ask Madeleine to make sacrifices .
9 That 's right but I think j I think just the fact that you 're doing psychology and then psychology again in a way I think that 's the pr I agree with you , what you 're really saying is , I mean how many people would object , or how many people would prefer to have the straight two hours rather than the two single hours ?
10 And she was glad to have the strength of anger against him as she deciphered coolly , ‘ What you 're really saying is that either I leave Travis alone , or , if you ca n't get me over the Norwood & Chambers contract , you wo n't rest until you find some other contract I 've had small dealings with and which did n't work out , which added together will amount to dereliction of duty . ’
11 ‘ I suppose that what you 're really saying is that Guy was attracted to me because he could pretend I was a boy ! ’
12 But , but they 're saying that , ooh apart from I think the what they 're really saying is that it 's better to wait till in
13 So what you 're really saying is that the computers of the kind you 're describing are for the ordinary person .
14 What you 're really saying is that a society which is perhaps stable , certainly better , is one in which there 's a fair degree of moderation and a fair degree of evenness in terms of
15 What we 're here to do is
16 We 're simply saying is the new road does open up op opportunities within the urban area e even , for the release of sites which are constrained by poor access and via the amount of traffic passing along existing road corridors .
17 But what you 're then saying is that the taxes start at a very low threshold I E you , you , you start to pay tax at a hundred and fifty Cantonese per person .
18 Though like all market-place democracy , you do have the feeling that what you 're actually seeing is an impressive piece of set-building , that the real action lies below the surface , in some place where entry is rather more restricted .
19 The type of policy we 're actually seeking is already included in the Humberside structure plan and I see this morning that er that was circulated as D four double O seven .
20 So what what they 're actually saying is that here is a formal training that will make sure that everybody at the , who goes on this course , comes away with a measure of having achieved those skills because th the course itself is formed of two parts .
21 because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course .
22 In addition what we 're actually doing is we 're building in this new fin financial planning guide which gives you the opportunity to just look at where you are just now and where you want to do in the future .
23 What they 're actually doing is they 're affirming to themselves they 're verbalising the performance improvement or the performance they 're going to give .
24 What we 're actually doing is checking the firing pin is n't broken and looking down the barrel to make sure it 's not blocked and is properly oiled .
25 There 's nothing difficult about a whole stream of , of er comments were raised by the inspector Mr team are , have addressed a large number of them , have told us what they propose to do to deal with a number of er and , and I believe that there will be things left over when he 's finished that , that he wo n't be able to resolve er perhaps er without the people that help the Committee er or some of us are always suggesting is that er those things that he is unsuccessful in resolving erm be identified and so that er when , when the er the Inspector makes his er his next report we can see just , just why that some of these other items there have were n't able to be addressed .
26 So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage .
27 The claim that none of our beliefs about the future are ever justified is more important and more interesting than the claim that although our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is quite probably both true and justified , we can not really be said to know that the sun will rise tomorrow .
28 The reason why ex-boarding school pupils are forever divorcing is that during some of their most formative years love is characterised by distance , not closeness .
29 A group of people who entered some state at about the same time and whose life histories are thereafter studied is called a cohort .
30 Cleaning your house while the kids are still growing is like shovelling the snow before it stops snowing .
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