Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [v-ing] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think she 's right saying that er er watch that off |
| 2 | Now , with the proposed acquisition of CGI , IBM is effectively saying that despite its vast army of surplus employees , it ca n't find 4,000 among with the skills , or the ability to acquire the skills to be found in an unexceptional middle-ranking software and computer services company — and the move is hardly a morale-booster for all the people within IBM that ply their trade in software and services . |
| 3 | This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking . |
| 4 | I always reckon it 's tremendously flattering that viewers want to talk to you when they meet you in the street . |
| 5 | J. P. Morgan , a New York bank , is optimistically forecasting that the current account for the year will be in balance , compared with a deficit of $99 billion in 1990 . |
| 6 | It 's perhaps fitting that the Services and Communication Department should bring up the rear in this group of presentations , because one of its key priorities is to provide a coherent professional support service to the organisation as a whole . |
| 7 | And it is especially fitting that her statue should stand so close to the parade ring , the scene of such joyous pandemonium at Cheltenham after she had completed her unique double in March 1986 . |
| 8 | Th the motion 's basically saying that we want to continue er our demands for harmonization of conditions pe irrespective of what peop jobs people do er in terms of negotiating , negotiating agreements . |
| 9 | Role ‘ It is only fitting that the standard of his office should reflect his role . |
| 10 | After all in an age where everyone is becoming more environmentally aware , perhaps it is only fitting that even artists are getting into recycling . |
| 11 | Before any committal warrant is issued , the magistrates court must hold a means inquiry , and it is only following that that a warrant can be issued . |
| 12 | He is only saying that after a certain point in his life he himself did not doubt . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyway , you know that Tim is only saying that because he wants you to marry him . |
| 14 | Galbraith ( 1976 ) put forward the idea that in the technological world the technology is so demanding that a given new technology is handled in the same way anywhere in the world no matter what the local culture . |
| 15 | It is entirely fitting that Dawn Run should share the statuary honours with the other two Cheltenham legends , for she was the first — and to date the only — horse to win both the Champion Hurdle and the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 16 | It is perhaps fitting that he was carried to his pauper 's grave by the stonemasons then engaged in restoring Camborne Church . |
| 17 | It is perhaps unsurprising that the matter should have been challenged in the courts , given that it was an affront to the requirements of even the most basic conception of the rule of law . |
| 18 | In the light of these concerns , and the dismal outlook of many , it is perhaps unsurprising that only 28 per cent agreed that helping older people to live as long as possible should be a priority issue . |
| 19 | It is perhaps reassuring that they at least recognised utter nonsense when they wrote it , if disappointing that this was essentially a confession of failure by a Ministry whose central function had been to coordinate energy policy . |
| 20 | He 's already feeling that there is a counter movement in him which he is prepared to call nature , which links him to Eve and which will lead him to join Eve in her defiance of God . |
| 21 | History is somehow proving that Kitchens Of Distinction are a valid fusion of the ( early ) '80s and '90s , where spiky , overcoated rock meets effects-stunned pop and gets on , miserably . |
| 22 | I think he 's finally admitting that it 's all had an effect on him . |
| 23 | It is thus fitting that nowhere has pop been so active as in that area so firmly delineated as ‘ private ’ by the dominant culture and woe betide those who , like politicians in sex scandals , mix the public and the private , or otherwise transgress the narrow boundaries — namely those of sexuality and gender . |
| 24 | Jackie had finished racing by the time I got involved in the sport , but it is utterly fitting that this collection of drivers ' portraits should begin with Jackie : not only because he was a great champion , not just because he changed the course of the sport , but because he 's really never been away . |
| 25 | This approach is already suggesting that genetically determined variation in the oxidative metabolism of alcohol may play a role in individual susceptibility to alcohol related liver damage implicating acetaldehyde an an important factor in disease pathogenesis . |
| 26 | Parliament is already arguing that the referendum was no more than a glorified opinion poll . |
| 27 | We 'll find , while he 's just finding that look there 's just one more item that 's erm a Christmas card from so I 'll pass that round so you can have a while we 're just trying to find . |
| 28 | he 's just saying that in a group if we look at the historical background of the language , it helps to see you know how What the strong points are of the linguistic and what we need to be bolstered on . |
| 29 | It 's a , is it in , and he 's just saying that the develop redevelopment starts in autumn ? |
| 30 | It is because the context of the child 's development is always changing that one can not predict later behaviour on the basis of earlier events . |