Example sentences of "to be [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she appears to be asserting is that this person is coming home from Canada . |
| 2 | Yeah the T V could do with a few big ones , alright okay body stopper , they want you to have a T V on and be tempted , depends on what , how it went , to ask them to turn it off but if you ca n't that would upon them then you 'll have to work with it because what you do n't want to be seeing is okay they are there , you 're here and they 're concentrating on this . |
| 3 | Fleischmann and Pons worried that the numbers of neutrons that they appeared to be seeing were billions less than should have been the case if their heat data were correct and due to fusion . |
| 4 | And in so far as it , as the question arises erm of what kind of , of provisions erm are you going to find if you go abroad , erm then I think we can say that within the European Community , erm citizens of one member state are entitled to what the citizens of the member state in which they happen to be staying are entitled to . |
| 5 | All companies in Grampian known or believed to be exporting were invited to take part , with the Council 's North East office co-ordinating responses . |
| 6 | First , they enable you to ‘ gather ’ the knitting in , second , the ribber comb is held by the gathered thread row — this row is eventually pulled through and does n't form a permanent part of the welt. the second row to be knitting is , when the hem is finished , the first row of the welt . |
| 7 | The main areas that the parties will wish to be binding are : ( a ) confidentiality ; ( b ) costs ; ( c ) exclusivity period . |
| 8 | Nothing here said denies that one reason for holding voluntary undertakings to be binding is to enable people to encourage reliance by committing themselves to a course of action . |
| 9 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |
| 10 | After all , what he seemed to be suggesting was that a woman with her not inconsiderable sex drive might have been expected , long ago , to have found a man to satisfy it . |
| 11 | As Benn 's frustration indicates , the ‘ public good ’ which the BBC considered itself to be serving was not necessarily the same as that defined by government . |
| 12 | At first sight what he seems to be saying is simply that no one is going to take any notice of the conclusions which a rational woman reaches after deliberation . |
| 13 | We seldom read in the tabloid press local police force fails er we may frequently read in the local press in the tabloid press rather , that the Home Secretary has failed and yet what we seem to be saying is that we believe that all the responsibility should be local , all that responsibility , all the blame when things go wrong should go to the Home Secretary . |
| 14 | All Kevin Rowland seemed to be saying was that he had something to say . |
| 15 | What the Leeds manager appeared to be saying was that , while it was a matter of opinion whether Mr Midgley used his discretion correctly , he was glad to see a referee not sticking rigidly to the letter of the law . |
| 16 | What most of the practitioners seemed to be saying was that the satisfactions of practice lay in ‘ helping people ’ , whatever the problem , whereas the frustrations lay in their inability to exercise their technical skills more fully because of the pressure of time . |
| 17 | This discussion suggests that the question we ought to be asking is not a descriptive one — what is public law ? — but a prescriptive or normative one : when ought public law rules apply ; or , what is the proper scope of public law ? |
| 18 | What Mr seems to be directing is that the settlement should be directed to those areas which are at present have pleasant tree cover and things , which theoretically can assimilate a new settlement which in the context of the Vale of York , tend to be those areas which are th are of the better landscape quality . |
| 19 | It means that the recession which ought to be ending is gathering pace . ’ |
| 20 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 21 | Indeed , the key choice many managers now seem to be making is whether they develop their own system or buy one ‘ off the shelf ’ from several management consultants in the field . |
| 22 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 23 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 24 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 25 | And all everybody else seems to be doing is trying to stop me . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What I 'd like to be doing is putting you over my knee and giving you the spanking you heartily deserve , ’ he said grimly . |
| 27 | When we are told there is a shortage of floppy disks , what they ought to be doing is sending out working printing saving and using versions of their programs that we can load 10–20 times then said software will commit Hari Kari . |
| 28 | I do n't I do n't believe it is erm at the mo well earlier this week a report was published by the National Commission on Education which was er an independent erm Commission that was set up erm and they they 've said that basically what we need to be doing is t if we 're trying to raise standards is to keep the idea of having an all graduate profess profession followed up by high quality for train training for teachers once they 've actually started work . |
| 29 | Although the correspondence between the use of Creole and the description of the customer 's actions is not perfect , what the narrator seems to be doing is creating a persona for his character " the difficult customer " by linking him to Creole . |
| 30 | Okay what we 're going to be doing is estimating a demand function so we can specify the textile consumption as a function of real incomes per capita and also relative prices , alright . |