Example sentences of "what it [is] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mountain View , California-based portable communications devices developer Eo Inc duly announced its partnership with AT&T Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Marubeni Corp to design , build and market the first generation of what it is calling personal communicators . |
| 2 | What faith is asking always reveals what it is assuming . |
| 3 | We are very aware of what it is costing parents to send children here . |
| 4 | Consumers can push buttons on a display unit to see how much electricity , gas or water they have used , what it is costing them , and how big their next bill is likely to be . |
| 5 | That failed , so the Government are taking money from the taxpayer to the tune , with the assisted places scheme , of more than £500 million — That is what it is costing , based on the Government 's own figures . |
| 6 | Ask what it is trying to do for you , so that you can understand and forgive . |
| 7 | Yet too much concentration on the military angle could , in the end , lead the UN astray , causing it to lose sight of what it is trying to do . |
| 8 | over the years , the Team itself has got much closer in terms of its common aims and objectives … [ now ] we 're much more confident about what it is trying to achieve . |
| 9 | The problems will of course vary according to the field in which your company or organisation is operating and what it is trying to achieve . |
| 10 | So are the members of the Shropshire TEC board , who also run demanding businesses yet give much time to developing the TEC and working towards what it is trying to achieve , especially for young people in Shropshire . |
| 11 | I mean if it , wh wh what it is trying to do is , is to is to formalize the fact that land reform was already taking place , and therefore you , you 've got to give the go ahead to that |
| 12 | To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments . |
| 13 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 14 | Well , you know what it is buying one yourself . |
| 15 | Our congratulations should go out from the House to the national health service for what it is achieving . |
| 16 | In other words , that kind of statistical argument , that there must be life elsewhere in the universe because there is life here , builds in , as an assumption , what it is setting out to prove . |
| 17 | ‘ With our own staff I believe the Company has fostered a greater sense of confidence in what it is seeking to achieve and the way it is going about achieving it . |
| 18 | Consequently , a tender offer gives the board of the target much less time to organise its defences and , given the lack of any argument and persuasion on the part of the buyer in the tender advertisement , no detailed guide as to what it is defending against ( defensive statements may simply display the target board 's paranoia ) . |
| 19 | Labour would face strong pressure from the Unionists to give Northern Ireland what it is giving to Scotland , where there is also a separatist minority . |
| 20 | and that 's what it is gon na be motivated , but at the end of the day there , the , the people that you work with they ai n't worth a |
| 21 | Newco then knows precisely what it is purchasing . |
| 22 | Thus the scarce research work on the effects of participation on effectiveness is further limited by its inability clearly to define ( and to measure ) what it is studying . |
| 23 | Er , on paragraph nine the government 's own figures show that there is a shortfall of glee while the others who have a a social conscience , a and that they 've mixed , the site provision is n't keeping pace with the growth of the number of caravans and yet , what it 's proposing to do in this paper will make the situation worse by removing any incentive erm and any requirement on local authorities actually to provide the sites that are needed to make up that shortfall and it 's quite clear that what this is about is actually what it is happening in housing in general and that is shifting provision from the pri , from the public to the private sector . |
| 24 | They are times when the behaviour of an animal is uncertain ; which is just the kind of time when other animals will want information about what it is going to do . |
| 25 | The public will see immediately that Labour has no idea what it is going to do — but perhaps that is Labour 's chosen method : perhaps the idea is to introduce a tax that is completely incomprehensible . |
| 26 | This is a statement not of something that the research is going to conclude , is going to find out , but a statement of how the inquiry is to be directed , what it is going to investigate , look at , examine , and so on . |
| 27 | ‘ It is a totally new departure for me , and I have to admit I do n't know what it is going to be like or what to expect . |
| 28 | ‘ What is new is the increased pressure within the health service for doctors to balance the effectiveness of drug treatment against what it is going to cost . ’ |
| 29 | The NSA is now so large , so complex , and so secret that no one in America , least of all the president or Congress , has any idea what it is doing or how sensibly the taxpayers ' money is being spent . |
| 30 | Although exercise will be working properly only if it is vigorous enough to cause some sweating and panting , you can check what it is doing to your heart , if you fear overstraining , by monitoring the pulse rate . |