Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [pers pn] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 2 | Because she could 've phoned , alright , you 're not still going or whatever she 's trying to excuses she ca n't erm skate , well half the people ca n't skate , what you talking about , but oh I just do n't understand . |
| 3 | I do not ask what hopes or expectations they have , or what they are dreaming of , but what they are experiencing . |
| 4 | We knew they were geologists … they did n't come in contact with anybody on the island , they did n't tell people what they were doing or what they were looking for . |
| 5 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 6 | She did not question who it had been or what he was looking for . |
| 7 | Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him . |
| 8 | cancers I think you 'll find that what they 're doing with them ar a lot of those cancers will be cured . |
| 9 | Mr Hume told him : ‘ We have made it very clear that what we are seeking in our dialogue is an overall strategy for lasting peace . |
| 10 | It is possible that what we are dealing with here is the experience of sections of the professional gentry , though it was not confined to that group alone . |
| 11 | We should not be misled by any temptation to assume that what we are dealing with here is the familiar disposition of many words , mentioned above , to vary in their referential effect according to the standard considered relevant for the type of the noun ; as if , to take the last sentence in ( 34 ) it was simply a matter of adjusting our standard of what counts as old from the range suitable for schools to the smaller one which is appropriate to individual human beings . |
| 12 | I believe that what we are seeing from President Moi and members of his Government is all going in the right direction . |
| 13 | But I think that what we 're dealing with in developing countries is not so much erm an unwillingness to make themselves less vulnerable to disasters but much more erm they do n't have the resources . |
| 14 | How do we know that what we 're drawing into our lungs is n't doing us harm . |
| 15 | Erm , it would be unsafe , I think , to work on an assumption that what we 're going to er one post becoming available through natural wastage per year , and even that erm , highish I think . |
| 16 | We know about it before , always used to , we know that what we 're doing with B T is , you know , we 're starting up clapping . |
| 17 | We need to remind children that what we 're doing in drama is pretending . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The new chief executive of the Munich conglomerate , Heinrich von Pierer , told the Wall Street Journal that he is interested in one or more ‘ strategic partners ’ for Siemens Nixdorf , saying that what he is looking for is joint development and possibly manufacturing of a broad range of hardware with one or more competitors . |
| 20 | You just knew that what he was saying about Quigley was true . |
| 21 | I assume that what you are hoping for is not merely a simple yes or a no , but some discussion of the matter , and I shall therefore take the liberty of presenting the evidence in some detail and at some length . |
| 22 | It 's steamed up between the layers is that what you 're looking at . |
| 23 | You 're wanting to produce a certificate for the kids is that what you 're talking about ? |
| 24 | The riposte must be that what it is coming to is that it is now technically possible to perform that operation , and naturally a huge demand for it has developed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 27 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 28 | Erm , David , that really er is about er four point four , the parallel activity necessary sister companies er to erm make sure that the same message is getting across , and that whatever they are saying to the continental is actually supporting our attempts to er erm become the preferred supplier . |
| 29 | I again spent most of the afternoon looking for gaunt-face , coming in the end to the conclusion that whatever he was doing on the train he was n't travelling because of an overpowering interest in racing . |
| 30 | So than what we were talking about before you know ? |