Example sentences of "talking [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says : ‘ What we 're talking about are refinements — fine-tuning . |
| 2 | What I am talking about are the contexts in which people have sexual relationships . |
| 3 | ‘ The experts I 'm talking about are the ex-members of various secret services and police forces . |
| 4 | What is clear from this , though , is that what we are talking about are conventions , and it is obvious that conventions derive their meaning from social contexts . |
| 5 | What I was talking about are your inclinations and I would suggest that you know nothing about them at all . ’ |
| 6 | For what we are really talking about are merely linguistic symbols and the manner in which such symbols are manipulated within certain contexts , and all that can be detected here are certain similarities . |
| 7 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
| 8 | Peter , the things we 're talking about are highly commendable , but I suspect at the back of the minds of most kids at school the question of examinations — whether they 're going to get their O level , or their A level , or their G C E or whatever — to what extent are university people involved in examining ? |
| 9 | In general the exclusion clauses that we 're talking about are , in general , are fairly reasonable . |
| 10 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 11 | Chair , can I suggest that some of the people who are actually involved in this are actually asked themselves rather than agencies that might be working with them , because I think that , that most of the , the sort of people we 're talking about are actually very sensitive . |
| 12 | So what we are talking about is probabilities , and unquantified ones at that . |
| 13 | Perhaps what we are talking about is adoptive parents who need to feel in charge , secure and ‘ in control ’ ( Tizard , 1977 ) . |
| 14 | The sort of weakness that I 'm talking about is not physical weakness but a weakness of their personality . |
| 15 | ‘ Neither of us are idiots and Benn must realise that the only way to make the really big money we are talking about is to meet each other here , when we are both scheduled to make a mandatory defence next September . |
| 16 | What we are talking about is moving the responsibility down a stage so that there is a system in place that recognises individual club players and helps them when they move up . |
| 17 | What we are talking about is the explosive power of , let me see , yes , four and a half billion pounds . |
| 18 | To count such comments as these as indicative of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with housework may perhaps be criticized on the grounds that what these women are talking about is not the housework situation , but marriage . |
| 19 | Some , at least , of this confusion and inconsistency arise out of misunderstanding as to what is meant by Wages for Housework , so before proceeding any further I propose to change the term in order to indicate ( a ) that I am not spokeswoman for , nor even in complete agreement with , the campaign of that name ; ( b ) that I do not propose to be sidetracked into an interesting discussion of the precise scientific definition of ‘ wage ’ ; what I am talking about is cash , money , pound notes , that to which a housewife is not entitled , that to which she should be ; and ( c ) that there is housework and housework . |
| 20 | And if you wan na look at this graph the period we 're talking about is indicated with these dotted lines and you can see the green line here representing U K residents holidaying abroad . |
| 21 | That is , attempting to provide an account of what a person is talking about is always built on an assumption that we know why that person says what he says . |
| 22 | Yet our interpretation of what a speaker is talking about is inevitably based on how he structures what he is saying . |
| 23 | ‘ If you have a room which is meant to be a meeting place of all the chief Daleks , and what they 're talking about is power — power over other civilisations , power over other planets — then power and domination is what comes through in the dialogue , and is the feeling behind what you want to create . |
| 24 | It would be foolish to deny that there has been great suspicion that when we talk about freedoms and flexibilities what we are actually talking about is worsening existing terms and conditions . |
| 25 | in in my course of work , I have three grown up sons and I think an awful lot of what we 're talking about is in your own attitude to men , and generally the most difficult men to deal with , I find , are men who for whatever reason , are actually inadequate , a little bit sensitive to women being competent I I have no difficulty at all in dealing with that , but I I 'm aware that it seems significant to me that a lot of the younger women here are much more shall we say , sensitive to erm , what I perceive as being basically male chauvinism . |
| 26 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 27 | Now they call it defensive driver training and er what we 're really talking about is safe driving , nothing more and nothing less . |
| 28 | He says : ‘ What we are talking about is ensuring that the workers are confident in their own knowledge about HIV and are actually able to answer question , and can talk about sexual matters . |
| 29 | So erm you know that 's th what I 'm really talking about is more a question of the process of erm career choice , than it is saying what you should do . |
| 30 | ‘ So what we 're talking about is only 25 per cent of Marius Steen 's assets other than the houses . |