Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 2 | ‘ The underlying point I am seeking to make is that the debate on which decisions on devolution must be taken has not yet been concluded , ’ Mr Major said . |
| 3 | The way it 's going to work is that we will er that the first thing is to invite applications . |
| 4 | what I was going to suggest is that we should s seek to negotiate with them a turnover rent . |
| 5 | But of course if we 're going to do that we need somewhere to start and where we 're going to start is that I 'm going to ask you to each to make a presentation , a very short presentation . |
| 6 | All that I am going to add is that the tools may reach outside the individual body wall . |
| 7 | And the only way you 're going to fail is if you get out on a limb . |
| 8 | ‘ What I was going to say is that it 's not working out , is it ? |
| 9 | Oh well er what I was going to say is that er I thought I 'd summed the person up that he 'd selected and I , I thought oh she i er it 's not gon na be easy for him , and it was n't , you know , she was a bit of a bit of a so and so I think really . |
| 10 | right , what I would suggest , is somebody take , what I was going to say is if you time me reading this , okay we get an idea of how long exactly we need to make . |
| 11 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 12 | The only way that 's going to happen is if it looks like a professional West End production . |
| 13 | ‘ The only way that 's going to happen is if it receives wholehearted support from the clubs , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The way we run our economy is the prime cause of environmental damage , now what the other parties are failing to see is that if we want to live in a truly ecological society , one that really recognises the constraints , er that the environment imposes on us , we have to have a consistent approach to every area of policy , so for example , in the Israel/Palestine conflict er debate , we have laid great stress on our , er advocating our own approach to conflict resolution , consensual approach , negotiations condemning the arms build-up which is inspired mainly by the U S , and so er whilst we have also debated some other more overtly environmental policies such as reaffirming our commitment to phase out nuclear power , we do lay great emphasis on er developing economic policies , particularly in the light of the up and coming general election and we want to obviously present a complete platform of policies to the electorate . |
| 15 | The first sign that you are making real progress in learning to fly is that such mishaps become rarer and , eventually , uncommon despite the model not having been changed in any way . |
| 16 | Reflecting on this , one issue for all churches desiring to grow is whether they are prepared to bring through such people into leadership . |
| 17 | You end up er collapsed , taking deep breaths , and what that is trying to do is that the deep breaths are circulating oxygen into the body , the oxygen is then able to break down the lactic acid into other substances which are less harmful . |
| 18 | Like she says I think the position is exes effectively what we 're trying to reinforce is that we do n't want any heros |
| 19 | now got to trying to decide is that made in England , or was it made in Germany or . |
| 20 | What I am trying to argue is that in Germany the contradiction between bourgeoisie and civil society — as exemplified above in the contradiction of state and cultural modernism — was much much sharper than elsewhere . |
| 21 | But what I 'm trying to explain is that at night the hrududil have great lights , brighter than Frith himself . |
| 22 | What we are trying to say is that we do n't have to look to our mothers for everything . |
| 23 | What I 'm trying to say is that while I do n't really like the shape and some of the other features on this guitar at all , and would certainly not choose to include them if I were designing an instrument for myself , it should n't matter . |
| 24 | What I am trying to say is that the anorexic has sufficient sense of identity to know that identity is something to be fought for — by whatever means . |
| 25 | What I am trying to say is that merely paying attention to sex difference — affirming that women exist and are different from men — is not in and of itself a feminist gesture . |
| 26 | Anyway , what I 'm trying to say is that I find myself looking around more . |
| 27 | What we were n't trying to say is that we make no contribution to the greenhouse effect … [ but ] to say that making Andrex from virgin fibre instead of waste causes less carbon dioxide to be released to the atmosphere . ’ |
| 28 | Here when they 're talking about women , I think James was right , women do have a vital role at the beginning in all cultures , what I 'm trying to say is that they have a vital role increasingly as they become more and more educated too . |
| 29 | All I 'm trying to say is that the Brotherhood think they 're a law unto themselves . |
| 30 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |