Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [det] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realise that this is asking a great deal , but it would help our strained finances if copies of these sections can be made within each institution . |
| 2 | This may not be possible , so we apologise if any are missing , and guarantee , they will follow shortly . |
| 3 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 4 | Books such as the Architectura Navalis Mercatoria of the Swede Chapman ( 1768 ) and the Examen Maritimo Teorico Practico of the Spaniard Jorge Juan ( 1771 ) show that this was beginning to have some influence on shipbuilders . |
| 5 | There 's that side of things , and I hope that that is changing , alas again too slowly erm I think the Taylor report , which firmly came down on the side of more lay control of schools by parents and members of the community , put up and unanswerable case . |
| 6 | If you suspect that this is leading up to a tirade about vegetables suffering pain , flowers having feelings and ants being cleverer than humans , then I am sorry to disappoint you . |
| 7 | Er , yes but er er , I under stand that this is going |
| 8 | You know that this is telling the members , it 's reassuring the members before they sign it , you wan na accept that pay rise or not . |
| 9 | The council are , know about the problem , they are responding by doing X , and by the way , it 's still on the increase or , you know , we know that this is happening . |
| 10 | I mean it 's it 's their responsibility to er prepare the local plan in the context of what the structure plan strategy as a whole is saying and I think it 's it 's necessary not to just look at this particular policy in total isolation and assume that that is going to give er what you fear to district councils the ability to nothing . |
| 11 | Now assume that this is assuming they all voted . |
| 12 | Well we were up there one time er at the Lothian region and we to be up and tell that this was imposing higher things on , higher prices on both the bus buses , because they were raising the bus fares at the same time , and they were increasing the lunch club . |
| 13 | If you find that this is taking up too much of your valuable time , or causes disruption when your wages clerk is ill or on holiday — have a look at how Midland can help . |
| 14 | Some scientists — and we should add hastily that they are in a small minority — feel that this is mincing words : they feel that by ‘ forever ’ we should mean an infinite number of billions of years rather than a period whose duration can be estimated . |
| 15 | I , and indeed a lot of other people , feel that this is going to happen sooner than you think , and that many of you will be happily using the train in the near future , especially for longer journeys . |
| 16 | Opposition politicians argue that this is deepening the country 's involvement in peacekeeping . |
| 17 | The ten subject areas of the NAEP programme cover a good deal of the curriculum , but Greenbaum , et al ( 1977 ) argue that this was limiting . |
| 18 | Although it is obviously accurate to call an incipient spin a stall with a wing-drop , I think that this is trying to avoid the issue , which is that it is really the beginning of a spin and at least a potential spin . |
| 19 | I think that this is asking too much . |
| 20 | Erm , we 've got pay review bodies which may , we do n't know what they 'll come out with in in terms of recommendations for for the pay increases , and I think that this is placing the Councillor in a in a very bad po er position . |
| 21 | Now I wonder if this is doing what it 's supposed to do , let's have a check . |
| 22 | If you want to en try and ensure that you 're going to have a self sustained community , one hundred percent , you make sure that presumably you 've got a show case cinema with fifteen screens there , er a B and Q , erm a whole range of of facilities that nobody ever needs leave , erm erm erm er that new settlement , the reality of the real world of course is that all settlements to a greater or lesser degree , er have a relationship with other er larger scale settlements , now then let's look at the new settlement , fourteen hundred dwellings , we estimate that that is going to be of the order of around three thousand three hundred people , now that is sizeable , it is not small , it is larger than a number of the small market towns er in North Yorkshire , like Boroughbridge , Settle , it is a significant development erm erm and within it erm there will be a requirement er be a requirement for a a a primary school , it justifies that . |