Example sentences of "[v-ing] [be] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is equally worth noticing is that Antisthenes of Rhodes was one of the historians Polybius disliked and attacked . |
| 2 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 3 | nor reproduc duc tu tu tology , but what I am saying is that secrets store up trouble , and when doctors are |
| 4 | You know , about the crime statistics ; really what she 's saying is that parents ought to do a better job for their children , and I 'm sure we all agree with that but I think that that 's a very superficial response to what is er an enormous question of parents just being too poor and having nothing to give their children in the way of just basic food , basic medicines , to keep them alive . |
| 5 | Now , Freud was n't saying that every time you dream about an umbrella you 're , you 're dreaming some kind of sexual wish , erm , but what he 's saying is that umbrellas and other things that can erm become erect or open out often do represent but you could conceivably have an umbrella dream in which the umbrella , through your private associations , stood for something completely different , it 's quite , it 's quite possible . |
| 6 | No I 'm not ignoring them but what I 'm saying is that problems that people are genuinely concerned about of dust or noise are unlikely to have an impact at a distance of two miles . |
| 7 | But what you 're saying is that ideas , if acted upon , do the opposite . |
| 8 | So the point I am making is that terms like reproductive success are purely quantitative , they 're wholly objective and scientific . |
| 9 | Another benefit of renting is that landlords take care of maintenance work to your property , which can be very expensive , and you do not have the legal and other fees involved in buying and selling houses . |