Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that depends on whether you are actually doing it during an audit or doing it for other reasons , what they are looking for is that your system is getting better and that you have done the right things . |
| 2 | It 's as , what I 'm looking for is that the people who tick it off as being okay know what they are looking for , and that maybe that it 's the right number of boxes , it might be it 's the right grade of paper , whatever it happens to be that , that , if they tick it to say it 's right , then that 's what , that they have checked in some way . |
| 3 | All we 're looking for is that you 've got what you 've ordered . |
| 4 | Now , coming back to the point you were making about them paying your suppliers and such like , erm , all the standard is looking for is that you use proof suppliers , that you get what you want , when you want it . |
| 5 | The idea , the idea of it though and from an auditor 's point of view one of the things they will be looking at is that every one where you wrote when we are not doing this must have a valid reason and a new methodology must be met on how you are going to cover that particular aspect and that must be authorised . |
| 6 | Yeah , erm , I was going to is that erm it was always the same , two jobs down so it was due to go his boss would have then I 've been there as well cos he 's caused such a stink |
| 7 | The list is longer , but what I am getting at is that it is going to be extremely expensive to cut down this pollution . |
| 8 | What I am getting at is that , in these historical cases , egalitarian ideas were tied in with the presumption that the proposition " all men are born equal " can be glossed " all men ( who are people like us ) are born equal " . |
| 9 | What I 'm asking for is that we keep this approach up to fight this government to give er our senior citizens a better chance in this life , cos a lot of us here would not be here today if it was n't for the senior citizens who brought us up . |
| 10 | What he 's asking for is that any references to that particular disastrous day is not referred to as Black Wednesday , but in fact as Devaluation Day . |
| 11 | What she most relishes about no longer having to worry about where the money to pay the rates is coming from is that it gives her the freedom to be creative . |
| 12 | The riposte must be that what it is coming to is that it is now technically possible to perform that operation , and naturally a huge demand for it has developed . |
| 13 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 14 | So in a way , what my teachers here and what we are arguing about is that we want a school which cares for individual children , which rejects both extremes that I 've mentioned . |
| 15 | I mean , th the other aspect of the , of the fif the other aspect of the , the brewery and me that I was talking about , er I 'm thinking about is that we we could do with you know , okay those , th those figures are I mean , unless they 're really realistic it 's gon na be you know , six months or so |
| 16 | ‘ What they will be hoping for is that they can get to a few months before before the next election , take the brakes off and try to deceive the people once again things are back on course . |
| 17 | Erm oh well I 'll er the other thing I was thinking of is that er we could be looking er towards beginning , you know even now , to doing a trips network and things like that . |
| 18 | I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it . |
| 19 | A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population . |