Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what was happening now was that the bream were frequently dropping the bait before I could strike . |
| 2 | Intuitively , what is happening here is that the force which argues for an increase in output ( fall in prices ) from the double marginalization position in monopoly is being outweighed by a force which argues for a decrease in output ( increase in price ) from the duopoly position . |
| 3 | What is happening here is that a medrese , normally of the grade , is being turned , into a medrese . |
| 4 | And wh what tends to happen is the dreams are , are , are repetitive , although they often vary in small details , and the idea is , or this was Freud 's , Freud 's idea , and basically it 's the same as his explanation of anxiety dreams , that , that what is happening here is that the mind has got a very disturbing latent content that it ca n't forget . |
| 5 | The slightly higher RNR levels for elderly married couples and for men living alone than for women living alone are because the women have less income from paid employment and from occupational pensions . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've heard it said that the only reason we got the contract with Talkin' Loud is 'cos we know Gilles . |
| 7 | Also worth noting here is that Hankamer ( 1977 ) has put forward the possibility of competing grammars for a body of linguistic data as a force inducing syntactic change . |
| 8 | One reason for that drifting away is that , as a result of the Government 's failure to obey European Community rules , we are not getting the money that we should under RECHAR . |
| 9 | The arguments against doing so are that : |
| 10 | The causes of marginalisation both in Europe and the Third World , the nature of the actions necessary to overcome it and the implications for industrial society in doing so are as yet poorly understood . |
| 11 | The stated reason for doing so is that an increasing number of cardholders are paying their bill at the end of each month , pay nothing for the card , and are therefore being subsidised by those who do use the credit facility . |
| 12 | The major disadvantage of doing so is that the data formats required by the two packages are very different . |
| 13 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 14 | There was no reason why she should satisfy his curiosity and she was honest enough to admit that the only reason for doing so was because she was proud of her success . |
| 15 | Well , I think we had much higher hopes before the Gulf crisis , I think what many people are saying now is that the peace dividend , the money that we could have saved by the end of the Cold War , will in fact , that peace dividend will be diluted by the Gulf . |
| 16 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
| 17 | Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ? |
| 18 | If we just go back to , to what we 've just said and read the first paragraph , wh what he 's really saying here is that a revolution is taking place |
| 19 | he 's looking , he 's interpreting the peasants as being a very different their nature , motivations being very different and , and they are , th that they are taking action and what he , what he 's saying here is that not only is this a peasant revolution taking place but it is a , it 's a peasant revolution which is being led by the poor |
| 20 | Erm right so looking at the details of those , right what we 've , what we 're actually saying then is that if erm you , you would want to provide that income or want to make sure that that , that income was available should you die tomorrow ? |
| 21 | Er what you 're saying then is that the house then is being , gon na be put up |
| 22 | I 'm not The thing is what you 're assuming then is that the pattern in the peak hour is typical for the day as a whole . |
| 23 | What you are suggesting then is that the time should be extended from five o'clock Friday to five o'clock Monday , er but that er there should be a period of two weeks after that er to for whichever council or councils are going to respond , for them to make . |
| 24 | I think , I think the point Ronnie was making before was that er there is an agreement for shop stewards to have paid release to attend training courses . |
| 25 | It 's , all this is showing really is that when we do multiplication normally , you see if you , if you 've done this sort of multiplication , you 've seen the pattern and how things are working and how you 're not , someone says to you multiply erm seventeen by a hundred and one . |
| 26 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 27 | What I am arguing here is that the meaning of a linguistic feature can not be determined outside its context . |
| 28 | The main significance of blocking here is that , even if a low percentage of records is hit in a run , blocking them together will increase this figure . |
| 29 | The other issue arising here is whether you take the cost of the chairs out of the asset account and show them as an expense each time a sale is made or whether this is done at the end of the month . |
| 30 | A point worth making here is that patients need to understand from an early stage the meaning of diabetes , that they have diabetes now and that they will always have it . |