Example sentences of "[v-ing] [is] that [noun] " 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 | An outcome such as 4 raises A's utility to and B's to Intuitively , what is happening is that A 's loss of utility from the reduction of her own income is being more than compensated for by the knowledge that B 's income is also falling . |
| 4 | The Unionist MP Ken Maginnis , a former UDR member , said : ‘ What I hope is not happening is that people who — as I would have had in my time — had montages for lawful and necessary purposes will be made scapegoats . ’ |
| 5 | A lot of the times what is really happening is that people are being put into artificial jobs . |
| 6 | Our assessment has always been , and continues to be , of a very … complex kind , because what is happening is that people are getting feedback from us all by working with us . |
| 7 | What seems to be happening is that Valerie is adopting a " Jamaican " persona in which irritation may be shown more freely ( but also , perhaps , less threateningly ) to a person 's face . |
| 8 | The message they are getting is that Italy is the real target . |
| 9 | nor reproduc duc tu tu tology , but what I am saying is that secrets store up trouble , and when doctors are |
| 10 | What they 're saying is that Colin was purely administration . |
| 11 | What I am saying is that Mills was one of the MI6 officers with responsibility for WIN . |
| 12 | ‘ So what you 're saying is that Bernard 's the only person who knows when the hit on Mobuto 's going to take place ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What I 'm saying is that Iraq is an independent state , an independent sovereign state , and whoever attacks Iraq to change the government or to destroy Iraq , then they should expect that Iraq is not going to be an easy bite to swallow . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Really if we , if we 're not on top of these things , then what we 're saying is that Jehovah is like saying to a high squad who lays out a beautiful meal for us and saying well there you are , it 's yours for the taking and you saying well I do n't feel like that today I 'll just have some chips down the road . |
| 17 | What Mrs Gamp is saying is that Mrs Harris was told , to reassure her , that the howls she could hear ( which were , in fact , being emitted by her husband ‘ bein' took with fits ’ ) were the noise of barrel-organs in the street . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose that what you 're really saying is that Guy was attracted to me because he could pretend I was a boy ! ’ |
| 20 | I mean effectively what you 're saying is that York has got a capacity for about another three thousand three hundred dwellings ? |
| 21 | But what you 're saying is that ideas , if acted upon , do the opposite . |
| 22 | ‘ The point I am making is that Paul is not the only young player around with that confidence . |
| 23 | The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’ |
| 24 | So the point I 'm making is that offspring will be prepared to make sacrifices under those conditions , where erm , the R is greater than C. But parents will want offspring to make sacrifices , wherever B is greater than C , and the parent is not concerned with the discount parameter R , but agreed on relatedness , because parents are equally related through their offspring . |
| 25 | Okay Linfield and Bangor are probably two of the best teams in Irish football but the point I 'm making is that Carrick 's team deficiencies were blatantly exposed for all to see . |
| 26 | So the point I am making is that terms like reproductive success are purely quantitative , they 're wholly objective and scientific . |
| 27 | The fascinating feature of the Guineas betting is that Alnasr Alwasheek and the Cecil-trained Pursuit of Love are completely different types ; Alnasr Alwasheek appeared sharp and able to quicken on fast ground , while his chief rival looked big , laid back and carrying enough condition for his trainer to work on when taking Wednesday 's European Free Handicap . |
| 28 | So what I 'm suggesting is that A is in fact your address and telephone section , B should be for your goals , and strategic plans , C , D , E , and F , er , would be for your specific functional areas . |
| 29 | What I am suggesting is that Spenser 's texts offer glimpses of issues which Elizabethan culture found awkward to confront directly — a belief in the precariousness of its civilisation given the existence of savagery ( exemplified by other customs , baser classes , other religions ) confronting a self-defined orderly minority . |
| 30 | 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 . |