Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 2 | knit the next few rows as usual , then cross the cable the opposite way ( in the same channel ) you are producing what is sometimes called a snake cable , since that is what it looks like . |
| 3 | We are producing what is sometimes called a sociogram which is a diagram which maps human interactions . |
| 4 | a ) It seems to us that for you to incorporate the Data ( and I am presuming it is only the Data and not the Search Software ) into your On-line Public Access Catalog system is going beyond the research use for which this special release of OALD 3/e Electronic was intended . |
| 5 | When your dogs are eating it is not a good idea to pat them ; if they think you are trying to take their food they will defend it with your life . |
| 6 | But what strikes one about their situation and the way they are tackling it is how vary narrowly they are ahead . |
| 7 | I think it 's impossible to explore why there is a difference , it does not explain why the matters we have already discussed , like vacancies , households and death rates why there is a difference between what the County Council say is one hundred percent , and what the H B F and others are advocating which is considerably more . |
| 8 | In fact whatever stitch you 're knitting it is always worth considering the merits and design possibilities of both sides of the fabric . |
| 9 | No they 're not the realities , because what we 're saying is that we have to modernize the policies of the Labour Party , but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns , I mean , let me give you an example , when Beveridge was talking about unemployment , and the life long need for people to work , he was talking about a male workforce , where it was a man supported by a non-working wife , now we still have at the absolute heart of our concerns in the Labour Party peoples need to work , but we 're now talking about a situation , where women are sharing with their husbands the role of bed breadwinner , and in many families the woman is the sole breadwinner , and therefore our policies about employment and the economy recognize that the world has changed , our principles are the same , but the world to which we 're applying it is very different , and , again , on that you see there would be no distinction between the so-called traditionalists and the so-called modernizers . |
| 10 | we 're going which is exactly what I was gon na say . |
| 11 | I would prefer to see an inter-club with Skelm and an inter-club with Hulton I think they get too big , two clubs is too difficult to organize when there 's three cos you , you 're getting it 's not , it 's the |
| 12 | But what they 're doing which is more important than that , they are beginning to change the way in which the peasant sees the world . |
| 13 | What we 're doing what is n't what we have n't talked about yet is that this budget protects our investment in increasing services in the Vale of White Horse , which will be Home Care services , Occupational Therapy services , Day Care services . |
| 14 | You , you 're saying there is already an alternative ? |
| 15 | Erm going back to your point , we , we are operating within the context of a new democracy , right , which is , is , is broadly a kind of democratic approach erm I E that it 's , it 's an indication of a sort of the bourgeois revolution but within that you 're saying it 's not just a democratic revolution , it 's a new democratic revolution and within that there will be elements of socialism being created . |
| 16 | You 're saying it 's not not it is n't impossible but it 's harder to generate a warmth over the phone is n't it ? |
| 17 | You 're saying it 's not . |
| 18 | You 're saying it 's just a place where you 're happy . ’ |
| 19 | I understand exactly what you 're saying it 's just that erm |
| 20 | And when you 're learning them , you know it 's alright now but when you 're learning it 's very difficult . |
| 21 | Is that like on the board , talking , when you 're talking it 's really rude . |
| 22 | The thunderstorms have n't helped , but we 're hoping it 's reasonably dry . |
| 23 | When cultural and economic identity are lacking it is all too easy for a capitalist system to ‘ sell ’ culture issues and values quite aggressively . |
| 24 | As far as the logistics are concerned , if you are organised and know what you are doing it is not so difficult . |
| 25 | ‘ We did not realise what it meant and the more I have listened to them it is fair comment that they are saying it is too much . |
| 26 | Sorry , that one 's shaking cos you 've got it tucked up , cos I 'm touching you is n't it ? |
| 27 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 28 | I 'm looking it 's not one job for one person in one company today . |
| 29 | m , well as I say , once I 'm going it 's just getting going |
| 30 | A level English , Language and Literature I 'm doing which is n't really |