Example sentences of "[adv] we [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We desperately need to find effective ways of working together , of improving services , of offering perhaps we are emerging real choices to consumers . |
| 2 | Obviously we are losing some players to retirement , and other who are planning to play elsewhere , and we are going to have to bring in new people . |
| 3 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 4 | So we 're using all the money we 've ploughed into the business to expand . |
| 5 | So we 're doing that but scoring goals as well . |
| 6 | so we 're doing twenty per cent . |
| 7 | P C Q so we 're measuring this angle here . |
| 8 | Erm , the particular one I 'm focusing on here is sort of the , the vision screening part of it cos the assessment of work stations is gon na be a longer term thing , we 're going back to pre where they 've actually sort of ticked the various boxes on the sheets and said this is like that and so we are collating that information currently . |
| 9 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 10 | So we were doing this music which was away from the pop stuff that was around . |
| 11 | So we were playing three games every six days and that just does n't allow enough recovery time from injuries . |
| 12 | Thus we are avoiding excessive losses … . |
| 13 | Tonight we are having another ritual debate on the common agricultural policy . |
| 14 | And already we are making heartening progress . |
| 15 | Soon we were making more money than the car company was losing . |
| 16 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 17 | D' you know , it seems like only yesterday we were having one of these happy little talks . ’ |
| 18 | say like we 're moving some equipment from one place to another |
| 19 | Yeah , Because the over him , ah , you 've got a small dick , you 've got a small dick , like we 're saying that to him . |
| 20 | That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient . |
| 21 | And erm the girls they have gotten four hundred and twenty four cans and the boys have gotten two hundred and sixty eight and altogether we 're collecting nine hundred and ninety five cans with the whole school . |
| 22 | Yeah well presumably we 're reversing this position . |
| 23 | So that you 'd get move those round a bit so that you 'd get Say that pizza came in like that and your mum sat down there said , Right we 're having some pizza we 're going to share this out between the three of us so we all get the same sized piece . |
| 24 | And we got to there from starting off with fifty pounds between a hundred and fifty of them which was quite hard to handle but by making it smaller this is called cancelling fraction when you take really we 're dividing this side we say , well we 've got ten on the top and ten on , ten times five on the top ten times fifteen on the bottom . |
| 25 | ‘ Now we 're considering useful ways of spending this year 's money ’ . |
| 26 | But really I do n't think so , although I did speak to the Reading manager Ian Porterfield a few minutes ago and he does seem relaxed and so do his players , so you know I am a little worried now , now we 're getting nearer kick-off I 'm beginning to get a little more worried . |
| 27 | I tell you those chairs are too low now now we 're getting old . |
| 28 | Now we 're playing all on this side without getting across . |
| 29 | An now we 're feeling dread , AN RED . |
| 30 | For you to downgrade that and say well I 'm sorry now we 're doing all this , we ca n't guarantee that , it 's disgraceful , absolutely disgraceful . |