Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consequence of this is that we are constantly hypothesizing about the possible significance of each event , and often discovering that we are wrong . |
| 2 | Mr Pratt , whose father Glyn was a former Merseyside County Councillor , added : ‘ We are constantly hearing about the desire to breathe new life back into New Brighton . |
| 3 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 4 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 5 | ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier . |
| 6 | I 'm sure you are already thinking about the |
| 7 | in these 0.3 seconds , skiers and the trade are already complaining about the ‘ pattern ’ of winter weather which has tarnished the last three seasons ( 0.03 seconds of the earthly year ) . |
| 8 | You know that 's all now going if you 're just talking about the flats area . |
| 9 | If we 're just talking about the niceties of the way these things are laid out , previous set of procedures say things like page one-o-two , page one-o-three etc , and I think that is probably good practice if you can look at a page number and so you know exactly how many pages to expect so , we can probably do that when we re-issue these procedures as well . |
| 10 | People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious . |
| 11 | That we 're really talking about the re the reign of God , and how in fact God 's plan is not in operation with people starving and people having not a future they c they can anticipate . |
| 12 | If they build traditional houses , we 're then talking about the same amount . |
| 13 | They were hugely amusing on the television , it was a wonderful series , but we 're actually talking about the education of children here , not high farce on the telly . |
| 14 | The idea that older people live in the past , that they are always talking about the ‘ good old days ’ is common , and reminiscence has often been devalued as merely the aimless meanderings of an increasingly decrepit mind . |
| 15 | They are always quibbling about the amount they are prepared to pay their staff while drawing enormous salaries for themselves . |
| 16 | Other leaders to miss out included Eurotunnel ( down 10 at 403p ) , where dealers in the units are still fretting about the possible need for a further refinancing . |
| 17 | Again we assume that we are still talking about the same man , that he has returned home to the location where the ‘ living room ’ we first met was located . |
| 18 | Wigan fans are still talking about the dazzling try which marked the 18-year-old 's home debut two weeks ago . |
| 19 | They are still arguing about the scientific theories of the early years of this century , like relativity and quantum mechanics . |
| 20 | First , you will want to define the problem for yourself , but later it is equally essential to define the problem at the actual negotiation — we might as well check that we are both talking about the same problem ! |
| 21 | When making a contract be sure that you are both talking about the same thing . |
| 22 | Perhaps then , and in a way which recalls Freud , Carson and Gide are also writing about the strange impossibility of desire ? |
| 23 | ‘ People are often complaining about the council but I think this time they deserve some praise . ’ |
| 24 | When we claim to be.arguing about principle we are often arguing about the " ratchet effect " . |
| 25 | That they are really writing about the superiority of their own academic tradition , rather than about some universal characteristics of literacy in itself , becomes apparent when they pursue the implications of literacy for language forms . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm just thinking about the future . |
| 27 | No , no I 'm not saying , I 'm just talking about the word saturation . |
| 28 | After all , since much of social research requires a direct encounter with the everyday social world , the act of research can be immensely revealing about the nature of social life . |
| 29 | H I mean I 'm really talking about the high number of post sixteen special needs people Gail has , has to see that I mean they probably exist in other |
| 30 | I in in the context of what Mr has just said , and I 'm really talking about the way he 's said it , but the way actually looked at the criteria , can I try to cos I would like to close on this particular question by one o'clock . |