Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I ca n't accept the argument that because you make provision to deal by law as well as by practice with the situations where things have got to that point in order to safeguard children , that you are thereby saying that you are going to take more children from their parents ! |
| 2 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 3 | I am only suggesting that you take a little time off , shall we say , until you are quite well again ? " |
| 4 | I think I am only saying that anyone who has followed the history of this controversy over the last twenty years will already see reason to think that the friction produced by quarrelling among good causes is enormous and it is a luxury that we simply can not afford . |
| 5 | Secrecy and restrictions on communication between scientists and engineers are so stultifying that many reportedly are discouraged from undertaking defence work . |
| 6 | We also need Government investment to back up the youth services , teachers and parents so that the next generation of youngsters does not include a minority whose self-discipline , self-esteem and respect for their own future are so lacking that they get kicks from racing stolen cars or lobbing bottles at the police . |
| 7 | Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record . |
| 8 | For many of these , memories of the country are so haunting that the real world has lost is charm . |
| 9 | And in Bosnia-Herzegovina journalists continue to work in circumstances which are so threatening that most foreign correspondents covering the conflict have fled . |
| 10 | She is my responsibility and I am merely suggesting that you may want to go home . |
| 11 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 12 | I am merely arguing that the role in science attributed to observation statements by the inductivist is incorrect . |
| 13 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 14 | We are merely suggesting that if the right hon. Member for Chingford has information he must place it before the appropriate authorities . |
| 15 | But Gray and Gallistel are merely denying that there is any certainty in the selection . |
| 16 | This would not end the wars , but it would in effect be a declaration from the Israelis announcing that whilst they intend to fight to keep the disputed territory , they are nevertheless admitting that their right to it is no different from that of anyone else , and until the world produces some better way than fighting , this is how they will-operate . |
| 17 | What we are saying , and this is as a result of figures which are supplied by O P C S is that we are broadly saying that we will remain in this narrow band towards the end . |
| 18 | I am not saying that unpleasantly : I am just recognising that there is a philosophical divide between us . |
| 19 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 20 | The TECs ' chairmen are already warning that budget cuts are forcing them to concentrate on alleviating the worst excesses of the training shortage , rather than on instigating innovative schemes . |
| 21 | As the community care reforms bed down signs are already emerging that the government may have significantly over-estimated demand for field social workers . |
| 22 | Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net . |
| 23 | But the graduates are already finding that publicity stunts are n't that easy , picking grapes in a gown and mortar board does have it 's problems . |
| 24 | ‘ We are just hoping that it will turn out to be good news but I am terribly concerned for her . ’ |
| 25 | er it was , basically the Kuomintang are just saying that the people who are actually leaving associations are riff-raff , you know |
| 26 | Do n't you think they 're only using that as |
| 27 | ‘ You 're only saying that because Gloria did my hair so nicely this morning . ’ |
| 28 | Yes but surely Alexander you 're , you 're only saying that er you do n't er , the more you golf . |
| 29 | an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education . |
| 30 | It 's just , you 're just thinking that if there 's anybody who skateboards just skates and like really ragged clothes because you 're not exactly gon na go out wearing a suit skateboarding cos as soon as you fall off you you 're gon na rip it to shreds are n't you ? |