Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [pron] be [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me that what we 're talking about here is Harrogate 's land allocation being , not necessarily an I five , but sixty hectares which he agreed was adequate for I five yesterday , plus I suspect another fifty which would be a strategic site . |
| 2 | He is stuck with this answer to the second question because he holds ( as does Hare , but not Ayer ) that what one is saying about something when one calls it x is identical with one 's reason for calling it x . |
| 3 | To some extent , it is also intuitively satisfying to suggest that what one is talking about always comes before what one has to say about it . |
| 4 | You just knew that what he was saying about Quigley was true . |
| 5 | You 're wanting to produce a certificate for the kids is that what you 're talking about ? |
| 6 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 7 | So than what we were talking about before you know ? |
| 8 | So in a way , what my teachers here and what we are arguing about is that we want a school which cares for individual children , which rejects both extremes that I 've mentioned . |
| 9 | And in tha in our statement we say , that we are talking about a process which involves both governments , all parties , and what we 're talking about is agreement among the divided people to which all sections can give their loyalty . |
| 10 | L l l let's try to explain for for an audience that 's looking at television pictures here and what we 're talking about . |
| 11 | ‘ If you have a room which is meant to be a meeting place of all the chief Daleks , and what they 're talking about is power — power over other civilisations , power over other planets — then power and domination is what comes through in the dialogue , and is the feeling behind what you want to create . |
| 12 | In Tunisia , doing nothing , Finch mooched and grumbled and read , and what he was thinking about had room to expand . |
| 13 | He revealed the background of his little failing and what he was doing about it when talking to me about our tele-coaching scheme . |
| 14 | If you had a health scare in your area , they 'll want to know how severe it was , who it affected , and what you 're doing about it . |
| 15 | ‘ Before you do another thing , kindly explain to me in plain simple English why you 're here and what you 're talking about . |
| 16 | Yeah you were saying about you said you said about erm the insurance , you were saying about that and what you were saying about your electricity . |
| 17 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 18 | Plus within my environmental thing I would like to be able to see if we can get four areas within the school and what I was thinking about , not the big areas outside in the gardens etcetera but do you know as you walk along from our corridor up past the dining hall and there 's that little bit of enclosed space |
| 19 | The objection may be raised , " If what we are talking about in educational technology is not the promotion of AV aids but the cultivation of a systematic problem-solving attitude , why is it that so many self-styled educational technologists did in fact emerge from the audio-visual movement or related areas , and why is it that so much educational technology literature is concerned with the applications of audio-visual formats of one kind or another to learning development ? " |
| 20 | So the ideas are still very meaningful in our world , but what we are saying about the cross is this : that in this particular way and through this particular person , God chose to redeem humankind . |
| 21 | But what we 're talking about now is Neil Pascoe and PANUP . |
| 22 | Well , pardon me for belching , but what we 're talking about here is a virtually unparalleled ( in this musical medium , at least ) honesty and open-ness that so far has hampered the Kitchens ' career like a rucksack full of rocks . |
| 23 | And that seems to me to go against having a strategic policy but what we 're talking about is the interface at a local level between development and and protecting the countryside and that 's quite rightly where the decisions should be made . |
| 24 | But what we 're talking about now is that we 've made up our mind A that you er I believe and you believe you can do this job . |
| 25 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 26 | Marian was deep in thought but what she was thinking about she hardly knew : only that there was distance and stillness all around her and that the forest seemed to be watching her , and waiting for something to happen . |
| 27 | ‘ But what I am talking about , because it is my business , is mainstream commercial cinema and I do maintain that mainstream cinema should be looking towards its audience . |
| 28 | but what I 'm talking about dear , probably in |
| 29 | Because what I 'm talking about now , the knitting product then was hose . |
| 30 | Whereas what we 're talking about in the structure plan is how much housing in total , of which affordable housing will form a greater or lesser part . |