Example sentences of "[v-ing] [is] [that] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's erm in fact a quote from Wilson , the founder of Socio-biology , the mo in other words modern er Darwinism as oppo as , as a applied to animal behaviour and Wilson 's point in saying that sex is an anti-social force in evolution was to suggest that what is really happening is that if natural selection is a question of the reproductive success of individual genes , then individuals should be motivated to produce as many copies of those genes as they possibly can , and that will inevitably bring them into competition with other members of the species who wan na do exactly the same thing . |
| 2 | Is n't exactly what 's happening , I mean what , what 's happening is that if they ri erm increase rents or whatever , the people who , who ca n't pay that they get together and they demonstrate |
| 3 | So the implication of that study and it 's a rather astonishing one , although it fits exactly with , with the argument we 're developing is that because these , these women were living in very difficult circumstances , in prison , they were even more discriminating about the offspring they were actually and they did n't carry a single one to term that had a birth defect . |
| 4 | Anuvver fing is that if we do 'im over 'e wo n't 'ave the strength ter struggle free too soon after we 've gone . |
| 5 | Another feature of measurement in science worth noting is that although there are thousands of measuring instruments in daily use , the number of dimensions measured is actually quite small . |
| 6 | A point worth noting is that when the State of Tennessee issued the order to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School , the entire assets of the school were sold at public auction , including the land , buildings , library , stock etc , and having learned this savage lesson from experience , the land and buildings on which the new Highlander Research and Education Center is now located are owned by a separate Trust which is completely distinct from Highlander , and is now answerable for any of the activities which take place there . |
| 7 | So what I 'm saying is that although there will be an overspend , it should n't be massive cos the overspend would effectively be the hump right at the beginning of the year . |
| 8 | ‘ What you 're saying is that unless I postpone my return to England Grantham and Marsh do n't stand an iceberg 's chance in hell of getting your account ? ’ she asked baldly . |
| 9 | ‘ What I 'm saying is that unless you take the opportunity to see the system installed and working you 'll be missing the chance of increasing your knowledge of the product and thereby depriving yourself of valuable information . |
| 10 | What I 'm saying is that if I do , I have to go on the supposition that I 'm expected . |
| 11 | So I 'm not saying th th that there are n't these th the important other inputs , but , but what I am saying is that if you ask yourself where the kind of gene behaviour interface really exists is clearly in the human er in , in the human mind and it may be that the basic kind of parameters erm have , have been set for our emotions and I really do n't see how we can change those . |
| 12 | Yes but what you 're saying is that if you stay how you are now you 're not going to get enough orders . |
| 13 | So , really what you 're saying is that if we 're looking at trip wires to stop things happening , there 's a powerful a really powerful case for a pensioner trustee looking for whistle blowers . |
| 14 | It 's very clumsy language but I think what what they 're saying is that if you go to the tribunal and you get compensation , anything they pay you now is going to have to come off that . |
| 15 | S But but y what what you 're saying is that if someo Have you seen the book by the way ? |
| 16 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 17 | So really what you 're saying is that if we 're looking at trip wires to stop things happening , there 's a power a really powerful case for a pensioner trustee , but you 're looking for whistle blowers . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | And what you 're saying is that if you get to sufficiently low temperatures , you get a situation in which the resistance in the metal drops to zero . |
| 20 | But what you 're saying is that when you accelerate — when you go faster and faster in an upwards direction — as you did coming out of that big drop — it 's like adding extra gravity . |
| 21 | What I think my colleague is saying is that when the actuary is assessing the commitments of the funds , he is looking at the anticipated increased earnings until the person retires and I think when the calculation is made for somebody who is er a deferred pensioner of leaving er a pension fund to take his money elsewhere a similar calculation or the same calculation should be used , the one that the actuary last used in , in looking forward and saying what the commitments are . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The only real problem with this way of bending is that if one of the ‘ laminations ’ does break you lose the whole piece rather than just the one lamination ! |
| 24 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 25 | What I am suggesting is that if education is for all then it must meet all needs . |
| 26 | But , one of things that we are discovering is that when people complain about drafts er , we 've been switching the air conditioning up and down to balance it up to suit the individuals needs . |
| 27 | One other point worth mentioning is that when dealing with a lease of the whole of a building , the landlord and the tenant will have to consider whether the airspace above the building is to be included or excluded from the demise , as without specific reference it seems that a lease of a building will include the airspace above it , at least to such height as may be necessary for the use and enjoyment of the land and any structure upon it . |