Example sentences of "[am/are] really [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strong one , you 're really celebrating are you ? |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What you 're really saying is that I 've no right to ask Madeleine to make sacrifices . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose that what you 're really saying is that Guy was attracted to me because he could pretend I was a boy ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | So what you 're really saying is that the computers of the kind you 're describing are for the ordinary person . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | When Rachel remained silent , he said , ‘ What you are really thinking is that you ca n't imagine Jennifer fitting in here , are n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps all they are really reflecting is their public 's depressing penchant for horror-show kitsch and spectacularly well-told lies . |
| 13 | By emphasising the ‘ primacy of action ’ what these theologians are really saying is that we do not know — indeed we can not obtain knowledge except through praxis . |
| 14 | What the critics , of the trade unions and managements alike , are really saying is this : that they do not like normality with all its faults . |
| 15 | are really making is that this period may seem trivially small compared , say , to the sinkage of capital involved in the decision to build and operate a power station . |
| 16 | It would appear that when ARA representatives speak of ‘ black leadership of the anti-racist struggle ’ , what they are really doing is asserting their right , as self-appointed ‘ leaders ’ , to dictate to ordinary black and white anti-racists . |
| 17 | But what you are really doing is finding the creature , for it is , in a mathematical sense , already sitting in its own place in the genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 18 | Tom Kalinske , president of Sega US , adds : ‘ All we are really doing is interpreting what one sees in the world today and making some form of game play out of it . |
| 19 | The rates should not be compared with those for , say , 16-year-old school-leavers ; what we are really measuring is difficulty in finding a graduate-level job , not difficulty in finding a job of any sort . |
| 20 | I suppose what I 'm really saying is that we should stop for a second each time we leap to elevate some young lad or lass to godlike status for a fifteen second guitar solo , and think about Paul McCartney penning Yesterday at age 23 . |
| 21 | But if it 's not required by law , then I can not issue , and if people ask for advice we are obliged under Fire Services , the Fire Services Act to give that advice , but what I 'm really saying is that with the , the pressure of work on the Fire Safety Department , it 's likely that if it 's a fairly low risk to life , we 'll never get round to it , and that 's the honest truth . |
| 22 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 23 | you 'd be expected to , to do a lot of work by yourself , and that 's reflecting the fact that erm you 'll probably have four or five lessons in each of your three subjects , but most people would choose three subjects for A level , and that means that er , when you 're not having lessons , you 've got a lot of time that is not accountable for , you will have been , or going to a general studies period and stuff like that , but there will be a fair number of private study periods , erm , there are some people I think who , who go overboard , and you 've got such a different approach erm from er the lower sixth , people do n't use the time that they have , erm , what I 'm really saying is that if you go into the sixth form and you spend less school time in the sixth form you do n't need to be prepared |
| 24 | Oh what I 'm really saying is that you ca n't er |
| 25 | erm in other words , what I 'm really saying is , with all these exclusions , what included ? |
| 26 | So , gentlemen , what I 'm really doing is to show you a bit of the background and the fact that it 's not all doom and gloom there is a hell of a light at the tunnel and in matter of fact , we got another lecture on the channel tunnel in a few days time ! |