Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | One area in which it has been widely used is agriculture . |
| 2 | ‘ To say that I have been badly treated is a gross understatement . |
| 3 | What has been less recognized is that legal structures constitute the family and roles within it . |
| 4 | That this second part , covering officers ' uniforms , has been long delayed is the responsibility of the magazine , not of the author . |
| 5 | But the notion of things which are naturally hidden is most important for Gassendi . |
| 6 | What has not yet been conclusively demonstrated is that birds learn to avoid brightly coloured sickening prey more quickly than equivalent but duller coloured prey . |
| 7 | You certainly wo n't miraculously ensure perfect spelling by helping pupils to use dictionaries , but you will find that it 's time well spent , because the main use to which dictionaries are normally put is to check spellings . |
| 8 | I will be dealing with seven ( although another claim I am not making is that of exhaustiveness ) : affection , status , stimulation , autonomy , security , money and belief . |
| 9 | The main reason they are not overcome is lack of time to discover the mistake and put it right . |
| 10 | Under the Child Minders Regulations Act of 1948 a person caring for reward for one or more children under five years of age to whom they are not related is required to be registered with the local authority . |
| 11 | ‘ But the question they are not answering is what are we going to do about the NHS . |
| 12 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 13 | Well as I 've s as I 've said earlier , erm what we 're basically saying is that because these erm sites do not perform a greenbelt function and er they then fall into a white land situation , that that white land is a is an area of land that becomes er at the end of the plan period in two thousand and six , er they are areas which could be considered development . |
| 14 | But what they 're not doing is spending loads of money on hospitals and houses and schools and raising the general living standards , they 're spending it all on heavy industry and armaments . |
| 15 | ‘ What we 're not doing is offering the client an audit on a regular basis , ’ said , ‘ although whether it will form the catalyst for more regular contact is another matter . ’ |
| 16 | There 's a lot of things we 're not doing is n't there at the moment ? |
| 17 | " I 'm sorry , Mr Grout , but what you 're not having is Unemployment Benefit . |
| 18 | What we 're not saying is that the the development er the road is development led . |
| 19 | But we 're not saying is the pipe-work and the little waterways if you see the machine you 'll understand more . |
| 20 | Wh what you 're also saying is , is right though , that within that the danger is that inequalities get too great and you would also need a set of policies which would stop that inequality . |
| 21 | So , I believe that what you 're also saying is that even if there were war , that would n't necessarily mean that the tap would suddenly turn off and there 'd be no more oil coming out of the Middle East ? |
| 22 | Yeah but the only thing you 're really doing is , is taking away this nominal erm exploitive relationship , you 're still gon na be exploiting the of existing |
| 23 | And they may not be able to cope with that , which is why I am always a little bit anxious if marriages break up very quickly , because it might indicate that what they 're really doing is just going into that second phase . |
| 24 | What you 're really saying is that I 've no right to ask Madeleine to make sacrifices . |
| 25 | That 's right but I think j I think just the fact that you 're doing psychology and then psychology again in a way I think that 's the pr I agree with you , what you 're really saying is , I mean how many people would object , or how many people would prefer to have the straight two hours rather than the two single hours ? |
| 26 | And she was glad to have the strength of anger against him as she deciphered coolly , ‘ What you 're really saying is that either I leave Travis alone , or , if you ca n't get me over the Norwood & Chambers contract , you wo n't rest until you find some other contract I 've had small dealings with and which did n't work out , which added together will amount to dereliction of duty . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose that what you 're really saying is that Guy was attracted to me because he could pretend I was a boy ! ’ |
| 28 | But , but they 're saying that , ooh apart from I think the what they 're really saying is that it 's better to wait till in |
| 29 | So what you 're really saying is that the computers of the kind you 're describing are for the ordinary person . |
| 30 | What you 're really saying is that a society which is perhaps stable , certainly better , is one in which there 's a fair degree of moderation and a fair degree of evenness in terms of |