Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing that upsets me when I see all these pregnant people walking around is that I did n't do it . |
| 2 | Intuitively , what is happening here is that the force which argues for an increase in output ( fall in prices ) from the double marginalization position in monopoly is being outweighed by a force which argues for a decrease in output ( increase in price ) from the duopoly position . |
| 3 | What is happening here is that a medrese , normally of the grade , is being turned , into a medrese . |
| 4 | And wh what tends to happen is the dreams are , are , are repetitive , although they often vary in small details , and the idea is , or this was Freud 's , Freud 's idea , and basically it 's the same as his explanation of anxiety dreams , that , that what is happening here is that the mind has got a very disturbing latent content that it ca n't forget . |
| 5 | The really frightening aspect of what is going on is that the alternative to Mr Yeltsin would seem to be chaos involving a complete economic breakdown , from which only extremists could benefit and all of us would suffer . |
| 6 | Certainly , one theory as to why crime appears to be going up is that as a society we are more intolerant of certain types of violence than we were in the past . |
| 7 | She says that one reason for her not going out is that upstairs there are about one thousand people assaulting children . |
| 8 | Also worth noting here is that Hankamer ( 1977 ) has put forward the possibility of competing grammars for a body of linguistic data as a force inducing syntactic change . |
| 9 | One reason for that drifting away is that , as a result of the Government 's failure to obey European Community rules , we are not getting the money that we should under RECHAR . |
| 10 | All I 'm pointing out is that those steps are a hazard , and one which any sane architect would have omitted from his plan from the start . ’ |
| 11 | What Firth is pointing out is that sentences as artificial constructs for exemplifying linguistic forms do not meet the same conditions of making sense as do expressions naturally used in the service of communication in context . |
| 12 | The stated reason for doing so is that an increasing number of cardholders are paying their bill at the end of each month , pay nothing for the card , and are therefore being subsidised by those who do use the credit facility . |
| 13 | The major disadvantage of doing so is that the data formats required by the two packages are very different . |
| 14 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 15 | ‘ One problem with having two career paths happily bubbling along is that there just are n't enough hours in the day a lot of the time . |
| 16 | ‘ We have interviewed 25 of our key customers across the on , off and export markets and the message which is coming through is that we need to get much closer to our customers in order to respond to their changing needs , ’ said L&QA CSSO On Trade Manager . |
| 17 | Well , I think we had much higher hopes before the Gulf crisis , I think what many people are saying now is that the peace dividend , the money that we could have saved by the end of the Cold War , will in fact , that peace dividend will be diluted by the Gulf . |
| 18 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
| 19 | Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ? |
| 20 | If we just go back to , to what we 've just said and read the first paragraph , wh what he 's really saying here is that a revolution is taking place |
| 21 | he 's looking , he 's interpreting the peasants as being a very different their nature , motivations being very different and , and they are , th that they are taking action and what he , what he 's saying here is that not only is this a peasant revolution taking place but it is a , it 's a peasant revolution which is being led by the poor |
| 22 | Erm right so looking at the details of those , right what we 've , what we 're actually saying then is that if erm you , you would want to provide that income or want to make sure that that , that income was available should you die tomorrow ? |
| 23 | Er what you 're saying then is that the house then is being , gon na be put up |
| 24 | ‘ What I do n't like about swapping around is that while you 're playing one song you 're thinking about getting near the end and that you 're going to have to swap over very quickly . |
| 25 | I 'm not The thing is what you 're assuming then is that the pattern in the peak hour is typical for the day as a whole . |
| 26 | What you are suggesting then is that the time should be extended from five o'clock Friday to five o'clock Monday , er but that er there should be a period of two weeks after that er to for whichever council or councils are going to respond , for them to make . |
| 27 | It 's , all this is showing really is that when we do multiplication normally , you see if you , if you 've done this sort of multiplication , you 've seen the pattern and how things are working and how you 're not , someone says to you multiply erm seventeen by a hundred and one . |
| 28 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 29 | What I am arguing here is that the meaning of a linguistic feature can not be determined outside its context . |
| 30 | The main significance of blocking here is that , even if a low percentage of records is hit in a run , blocking them together will increase this figure . |