Example sentences of "am [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am suggesting is that introspective reports , while often providing helpful qualitative information , can never be reliable enough to use as quantitative data defining the presence or absence of conscious awareness . |
| 2 | What I am suggesting is a more subtle movement between the two . |
| 3 | I have been talking about experiences which affect both men and women ; what I am suggesting is that the role of the Weaving Mother is to spin a thread , a bond , from the ‘ raw material ’ proffered by the male . |
| 4 | What I am suggesting is that both my aunt 's remark and her attitude stemmed from assumptions already prevalent within the family as to what was appropriate behaviour . |
| 5 | What I am suggesting is that you should not underrate your ability to succeed in what is now a highly competitive market place . |
| 6 | What I am suggesting is that if education is for all then it must meet all needs . |
| 7 | All I am suggesting is that the balancing exercise should be capable of being performed . |
| 8 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
| 9 | What I am suggesting is that Spenser 's texts offer glimpses of issues which Elizabethan culture found awkward to confront directly — a belief in the precariousness of its civilisation given the existence of savagery ( exemplified by other customs , baser classes , other religions ) confronting a self-defined orderly minority . |
| 10 | What I am suggesting is you knew there was an armed man in the flat , you were worried he was under the bed and if only concern was to get that bed up and over to check he was n't there , you did n't bother to wait to get Julie off it . |
| 11 | So what I am suggesting is that you do n't accept this resolution and you accept a modified or amended version of it . |
| 12 | What I am suggesting is that I think if you if you concentrate only on the question of who are the chief officers that 's very important and that 's very indicative , but it 's not the whole story . |
| 13 | It is them that I am appealing to somebody because of the erm the the th thought transference that I am using is feeling now compelled to pick up the phone O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 14 | What I am advocating is balanced view of your own work and a more sensible approach to its shortcomings . |
| 15 | What I am expressing is a tentative belief that it is raining , not the belief ( or awareness of the fact ) that I believe that it is raining . |
| 16 | So the question I am wondering is this : does the person Albie owed money to — the man behind Vinnie Dirkin — know who it was that killed him ? |
| 17 | I have my eye at the moment on the little-visited town of Amman , capital of Transjordan , which I am told is charming . |
| 18 | The only reason that I am speaking is that I do not believe that the guillotine motion has anything to do with speeding up the Education ( Schools ) Bill because time was being wasted . |
| 19 | But when you called I was teaching , and the rule when I am teaching is that one of my sons must answer the phone . |
| 20 | What I am doing is leaving that literature to one side and considering factors that have been found to affect performance at work . |
| 21 | Erm but one of the things that I am doing is over the next quarter with , various people begin to review the cleaning schedules of what they actually do , whether we clean them on a on a more frequent basis rather than just responding that particular area . |
| 22 | I should be feeling disloyal to Fergus , I should certainly be wondering if what I am doing is right , and if I am going to be hurt . |
| 23 | But what I am doing is giving you the opportunity to prove me wrong . |
| 24 | It is a lovely play and I am sorry to be leaving , but this is a very strenuous role , and what I am doing is perfectly normal . |
| 25 | Basically what I am doing is I want them to reply . |
| 26 | What I am doing is for the youngsters . ’ |
| 27 | What I am saying is that a lot of the common English objections to Ezra Pound have substance , and would be worth taking seriously , if only we could be sure that they were advanced in good faith , in humility , and with compassion . |
| 28 | What I am saying is this . |
| 29 | What I am saying is not that culling is necessarily the right thing , but that these are genuine detailed practicable problems which must not be dismissed , as if they were easy , by solutions of the kind that I have just suggested . |
| 30 | What I am saying is that it is never too late to reformulate your goals : do n't give up and just accept your lot as if it were a sentence handed out by life . |