Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 2 | Nadia : I am from the General Union of Palestinian Women and it 's good that I am participating in this meeting at this time because I am having major problems with the British Feminist Movement and the Western feminist line . |
| 3 | These Societies were in opposition to the differentiation and autonomization model of modernity that I am using in this paper . |
| 4 | That I 'm organizing in that I have now done a little bit more research . |
| 5 | ‘ No , except that I 'm engaging in prurient speculation about Gooseneck and Sunil and whether they 're having an affair . |
| 6 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |
| 7 | That one 's very atmospheric , very similar to Sebastian and the stuff with orchestras that I was doing in 1974 . |
| 8 | As Wilson mentions , she had recently had a harrowing shock , so it is possible that she was hallucinating in some way and that , by chance , her hallucinations corresponded approximately with historical reality . |
| 9 | She broke off , appalled by the realisation that she was getting in deeper still . |
| 10 | Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most . |
| 11 | You confirm that you are acting in this matter as principal and not as agent or broker for any other party . |
| 12 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 13 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 14 | ‘ We persuade them that we are acting in good faith . |
| 15 | We must ensure that we are operating in full compliance with the legal requirements of our software licenses . |
| 16 | I think that we are succeeding in that aim . |
| 17 | We hope that the enthusiasm and effort that we are investing in these options will be reflected in the recruitment of graduates into obstetrics and gynaecology . |
| 18 | I think that we must all be full of the sense or profound thankfulness that we are living in this country , under a system of National Government … . |
| 19 | Now in the scriptures , we 're gon na have a look at a few because the scriptures counsel us time and again , er that we are living in difficult times , we know that and it can become difficult to stay spiritually alert and awake and that 's why constantly throughout the scriptures you 'll find that we 're er counselled and encouraged to stay awake , stay awake and as we sang stand firm and , and grow mighty spirits , the first one is in Romans chapter thirteen . |
| 20 | why you know what I do n't know what 's changed in the meantime or whether we 're paying different rates or whatever , but if you take the material that we were getting in two three years ago when first time I was involved , it 's just absolutely nothing like . |
| 21 | This man has the unenviable task of telling hungry women and children queueing for food that they 're waiting in vain . |
| 22 | Reading this morning I get the impression that the win was rightfully scums ( as we all know , so is every other competition going : - } ) and it was only the fact that they were playing in such a ‘ cauldron of hate ’ that denied them their place in the champions league and inevitably the trophy itself . |
| 23 | On Jan. 30 the USA announced that it was withdrawing in 1992 17,000 more troops than had been planned , and closing or cutting back 83 more bases . |
| 24 | That it was going in this direction anyway had already been signalled by the resignations — often amid recrimination — of every one of Mr Gorbachev 's top economic advisers : notably Stanislav Shatalin ( who gave his name to the rejected ‘ 500-day ’ plan to convert the Soviet economy to capitalism ) and Nikolai Petrakov ( who was the president 's personal economic guru ) . |
| 25 | If anyone shows deep concern that he is doubting in this way , it is a sure sign that he is not . |
| 26 | On the contrary , he was satisfied to feel that he was sharing in other people 's lives . |
| 27 | We suspect that he was flying in light aircraft to lonely fields in Essex or Suffolk , but the time he was nearly caught his passengers got away and we could n't prove anything . |
| 28 | And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four . |