Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [v-ing] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first worry is that proving that your contract has been broken may not be easy , particularly if you are complaining about the breach of an unwritten and rather vague term . |
| 2 | One moment , you are prying into my affairs , the next you are burbling about the garden . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Karen was telling me you are writing about the workforce rather than about the plant 's operational side . |
| 4 | If you are thinking about the brain properly you should get sensible answers to your questions . |
| 5 | It always does , whether you are talking about the spread of the car or the spread of Aids . |
| 6 | ‘ You are talking about the woman I love ! |
| 7 | Would that be the that you are talking about the canteen for staff |
| 8 | ( In case you are wondering about the arithmetic , 19 per cent do n't have any preferences at all ! ) |
| 9 | Can I come back Mr Donson , or will that , and I take it , alright , I understand the point you are making about the long term solution and size , but if the panel were to be persuaded that to be a viable solution the settlement had , in the end , and I 'm not going to define where the end is , almost certainly beyond two thousand and six , that the settlement would need to be of the order of five thousand dwellings . |
| 10 | Give your view of how you are feeling about the situation — what are the pros and cons . |
| 11 | We are taking about the related documents now , basic form has to be finalised . |
| 12 | Since the eyes are an important organ of balance , as well as sight , then it naturally follows that , if we are thinking about the future or the past while walking or standing , rather than playing attention to whatever we are doing , our whole body balance is going to be affected . |
| 13 | If we are asking about the growth of political stability in England , and how and when it was established , a multi-layered explanation of different factors — each with their own chronologies — would be required . |
| 14 | So the ideas are still very meaningful in our world , but what we are saying about the cross is this : that in this particular way and through this particular person , God chose to redeem humankind . |
| 15 | ‘ We are talking about the right to behave as members of a democratic organisation and introduce amendments to our own fundamental policies . |
| 16 | Inevitably , we are talking about the South-east , which is where the development pressure is . |
| 17 | We have , in short , to keep our feet on the ground , to get our facts right , and to remember that we are talking about the real world . |
| 18 | It means , by contrast , that when we talk of the technological imperative and resource allocation , we must realize that we are talking about the political process , and understand what this involves . |
| 19 | So we are not really talking about the survival of the earth , we are talking about the survival of the sort of earth we want . |
| 20 | At one level we are talking about the way in which planning decisions are actually arrived at ‘ in the national interest ’ . |
| 21 | You will remember that we have italicised client when we are talking about the main beneficiaries of various forms of care in order to differentiate this from ‘ client ’ used in the simple sense of a recipient of nursing care . |
| 22 | We are not just talking about information ; we are talking about the ability to respond to the living language . |
| 23 | The hut was situated in a cutting on the track-bed of the old East Lincolnshire line that ran between Grimsby and Peterborough via Boston ; we are talking about the southern section of this once busy line . |
| 24 | If we are talking about the Cape Canaveral school of lineout ‘ jumping ’ favoured in South Africa the answer would be an unequivocal , yes . |
| 25 | If , however , we are talking about the number two or number three in a particular market , they may not be of sufficient size to achieve these objectives . |
| 26 | In the second , we are talking about the likelihood of a woman finding adequate childcare facilities for her children and entering the labour market , at a fairly high income level , possibly after many years ' absence from paid employment . |
| 27 | When we are talking about the end of privilege and we are talking about the future and training , we must remember that over half the population are hard done by . |
| 28 | When we are talking about the end of privilege and we are talking about the future and training , we must remember that over half the population are hard done by . |
| 29 | We 're not talking about local authority homes , we are not talking about the voluntary sector , we are talking about the private homes which are run by private companies , or individuals , not on a voluntary basis , but on a profit basis . |
| 30 | Essentially , we are talking about the cold war period , so brilliantly analysed by Mary Kaldor under the rubric of ‘ imaginary war ’ , and as far as Europe and relations between the Soviet Union and the United States are concerned , I have little to add . |