Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose what I 'm trying to say is that … |
| 3 | What I 'm trying to say is that yo , i now you got ta order another to , forty six . |
| 4 | yeah , what I 'm trying to say is that , that the Germans , on one German captured about four hundred blokes |
| 5 | but basically what , what , what I 'm trying to say is that erm , you know , it 's nineteen twenty seven , the world depression has n't happened yet erm and he 's assuming that you know , well you , you just said downtrodden masses for thousands of years I 'd say , you know , balls to that |
| 6 | The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view . |
| 7 | No , the point I 'm trying to make is this : everyone else around here has changed their name . |
| 8 | The above were all covered by the Corporation Superannuation Scheme , but there are believed to have been more motormen and conductors who had not been long enough with the Corporation to qualify . |
| 9 | The questions our friends were dying to ask were those which the tabloids have trumpeted ever since the case came into the public domain . |
| 10 | ‘ What we were beginning to miss was that quality of life that we should have had , ’ he says . |
| 11 | What these continua are created to indicate is that relevant styles of influence will vary with the situation . |
| 12 | What the notion is intended to emphasise are those issues to do with the how and the why of sociology 's empirical reference . |
| 13 | The first actual direct steam-driven flour mill is thought to have been that of Young and Co , of Bristol in 1780 , in Lewis Mead , near the city centre and powered by a Wasborough/Pickerd engine . |
| 14 | At the end of the day that trainee will not get his N V Q and what 's going to happen is that branch managers be penalized if that happens . |
| 15 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
| 16 | Yes , and it stays there unless you , it 's get commissioned is that right ? |
| 17 | Military police have foiled what 's believed to have been another attempt to attack and mutilate horses . |
| 18 | They 've lodged an appeal and will race come what may … but whether the result is allowed to stand is another question … the winner could be decided by a tribunal … |
| 19 | " My dear , what the marquis is trying to say is that young women on their own often have to sell their bodies in order to eat . " |
| 20 | but it is the case that twenty two per cent of crimes are committed by women , erm and I think that the situation with women committing crime is quite complex and complicated one , erm that really needs quite er , a great detail of discussion , and one of the , the points I was going to make was this question of feeling guilty |
| 21 | What I was going to get was another matter again . |
| 22 | Apart from qualifying for Pseuds Corner in Private Eye and avoiding the use of plain English , what Rumbold was trying to say was that British youth had just discovered trainers in the late Eighties . |