Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what was happening now was that the bream were frequently dropping the bait before I could strike . |
| 2 | The thing that upsets me when I see all these pregnant people walking around is that I did n't do it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What is happening here is that a medrese , normally of the grade , is being turned , into a medrese . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The slightly higher RNR levels for elderly married couples and for men living alone than for women living alone are because the women have less income from paid employment and from occupational pensions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've heard it said that the only reason we got the contract with Talkin' Loud is 'cos we know Gilles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She says that one reason for her not going out is that upstairs there are about one thousand people assaulting children . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As long ago as nineteen eighty six , the treasury stated in a supposed confidential document and I quote , most of the savings from contracting out are because contractors can offer poorer conditions of employment , contractors can eliminate costly bonus schemes , overtime pay and provide little , if any , sick pay and also avoid National Insurance contributions by means of part-time work . |
| 16 | Sub-contracting or contracting out was but one of a number of cost-cutting strategies . |
| 17 | The arguments against doing so are that : |
| 18 | The causes of marginalisation both in Europe and the Third World , the nature of the actions necessary to overcome it and the implications for industrial society in doing so are as yet poorly understood . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The major disadvantage of doing so is that the data formats required by the two packages are very different . |
| 21 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 22 | There was no reason why she should satisfy his curiosity and she was honest enough to admit that the only reason for doing so was because she was proud of her success . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | S so the position as of say the summer nineteen forty seven when , when you 're , you , this law was being formulated the reports coming back are that although there is the opportunity for the poor to do better , as a , as a matter of course they 're not all doing better . |
| 26 | What particularly worried me about the whole issue of opting out was that some of the services that the Local Education Authority provide are minority services , and I feared they would go by the board . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | 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 |