Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We are slowly realising that fat is a very effective means of making you put on weight .
2 Players in that market are already figuring that Self will be right up front amongst the crop of next-generation object technologies now moving off the drawing boards .
3 Because you 're not , although you 're using the power space , the power er er of the production line or equipment , they might not be , that might not be what you 're making , you 're just using that kit and you need the supplier of that kit to bring an engineer in and you need to get a part of it , but you want control of that rather than just waiting on a supplier to do it for you .
4 Well then if you 're just paying that money into a building society and you 're paying , obviously you ca n't write out as many cheques as what you would normally d do in a bank and have a standing order so therefore it 's got ta be paid by cash .
5 I think you 're just making that song up dear
6 And we 're always revising that picture of the past , in other words , somebody else in twenty-five years ' time will have to do a different kind of social history .
7 Worse still , we 're now entering that part of the year when those pathetic excuses ‘ leaves on the line ’ and ‘ the wrong type of snow ’ will be trotted out to explain away timetable chaos .
8 We 're almost accepting that life is difficult .
9 Well you 're , you 're saying that you build up information about so you 're actually writing that information on these
10 Erm unle unless we 're actually making that change as such , then the only way forward it seems to me i i is on the lines of which of which Mr has indicated which is that erm essentially the needs of Greater York are calculated on the current Greater York study area and the requirements are made on that basis and the supply is within that area , unless it ca n't be made in that area in that case it goes without that area , and therefore it it it 's part of the justification for the new settlement .
11 Members of the Guild are also demanding that government advice on healthy eating should be clarified because many hospitals and schools ( which have food policies and guidelines with perfect aims and objectives ) still serve meals to patients or pupils that are unacceptable .
12 However , by keeping our thoughts to ourselves we are often depriving that person of information which could be very helpful .
13 The multinational drug companies are often exploiting that knowledge in their constant search for new and more profitable drugs .
14 Sources are now saying that Pinnacle 1 or HyperSparc , the Cypress/Ross version of a superscalar Sparc , that we pegged last week as debuting a 55MHz will actually be introduced as a 66.7MHz/70 SpecMark chip , which of course is faster than Viking .
15 This is work which requires an emotional coldness but which can on occasions be so demanding that detachment is difficult to maintain .
16 " Are you sure , senator , " he said at last , " that you would n't be better taking that fever to your cot for the day ? "
17 I 'm merely seeking that budget commitment .
18 Yeah , yeah I 'm just finishing that tape up .
19 I think I 'm finally living that fantasy
20 ‘ I think I 'm finally living that fantasy now ’ .
21 There could be no mistaking that squat , muscular figure and purposeful walk .
22 My officers have been bravely patrolling that estate , on behalf of the community which we serve , and will continue to do so .
23 They cover topics including goods selling in and out ( which stores are buying what from the manufacturer in what quantity , and how quickly consumers are then buying that product ) or what type of product consumers are buying , and they give comparisons between brands in particular categories , for example soft drinks , analgesics , breakfast cereals , and almost anything in fact .
24 They were always broaching that subject , nationalization .
25 This time last Saturday we were frantically doing that painting .
26 Now is , is the fact that they do n't do that , they still go for this rent and interest rate reduction is it because of the experience of the north , they found that the best way in the north was to go for rent reduction , interest rate reduction and then go on , and they were simply taking that experience into the south , but taking it into a different area where it was no longer necessary or appropriate ?
27 It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order .
28 The fifth-century kings of Macedon , and indeed those of the fourth century till Philip acceded in 359 , imported Greek culture — Pindar wrote a poem for Alexander I in the 490s — while keeping at spear 's length the Greeks who were actually manufacturing that culture .
29 ‘ It 's rather pointing that way , though . ’
30 He has convinced Roderigo that Othello 's attraction for Desdemona is purely sensual , will soon be satiated , and that then Desdemona will love him ; even though the dupe is constantly doubting that vision , Iago manages to sustain it for as long as he needs to .
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