Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] is [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | What I 'm dying to know is does the tribe remember ? |
2 | What I am seeking to do is to outline a model of language use . |
3 | Right , so what we 're going to do is create a dummy variable to test that hypothesis , right , so if you press the escape key , right , and work your way back towards erm the data processing sort of environment , so go back to the post regression menu through the backtracking menu erm , when you 're in the backtracking menu , go to option six , which is the process plot edit option right , now press the return key in the data processing menu , right , and that will get you to the data processing environment when we can start messing about with our variables . |
4 | And one of the things they 're going to do is to centralize the switchboard that it 'll , you wo n't actually ring me up at all , you might ring the , the telephone number for Newark but it 'll be answered at headquarters and they 'll put you through . |
5 | What we are going to do is differentiate the average product function the average product , right , is the quotient of total product right , and the the amount of labour actually used and as a result if you want to differentiate it you can use a quotient rule of differentiation . |
6 | What we are going to do is find a diet that not only helps you to achieve effective weight loss , but is really healthy , suits your individual needs , and can be followed for years to come in order to maintain the weight and shape you want . |
7 | What we 're going to do is have a look at the ingredients of a plan . |
8 | Right what we 're going to do is to introduce the idea of expectations right , cos what this equation 's really saying right is that farmers expect price prevailing in T minus one alright to prevails in S T right so that 's what we 're , right , in their ex their expectation of prices in T , right are based on er current prices in sort of T minus one okay and that , that is what we would call erm expectations alright . |
9 | ‘ I believe the only way for community nursing to develop is to extend the district nursing service . |
10 | So what we 're trying to do is ensure the service is delivered as the purchasing agencies require . |
11 | ‘ The cost is killing us , and what we are trying to do is make a proportion of business profitable once more . |
12 | What the Government is trying to do is to persuade the estate agents that they should n't give false particulars at all . |
13 | Okay Assumptions for Pearson 's are It assumes that there 's an n an approximate linear relationship between , in other words you could cos what it 's trying to do is draw a straight line through it . |
14 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
15 | Even I mean the the English teacher will know that , that what he 's trying to do is to get a student to write his intentions clearly , to make his points clearly , to have a goal in writing his essay , what is it he 's trying to say . |
16 | What the futures market is trying to do is to get an unbiased estimate of 1rs 2 the spot interest rate over period 2 . |
17 | ‘ What we 're trying to do is have a piece of research that is so novel and is so placeable within industry that they ca n't really say no . |
18 | On a technical basis sooner than later , and what you 're trying to do is to understand the design and development process |
19 | ‘ All I 'm trying to do is to find a solution to the problems we 're bound to run into if we 're living under the same roof , ’ she said stiffly . |
20 | So what we 're trying to do is get a picture of , okay , what 's our , our best guess scenario , what the whole year 's gon na look like . |
21 | … What we 're now trying to do is say the river will stand a temperature of 30C — if it 'll stand it , do n't let's bugger about . |
22 | What you are trying to do is to develop an employee who thinks for himself . |
23 | Now what I 'm proposing to do is to issue a revised programme in respect of the afternoon session this afternoon , which will take in some of the business that er has has already fell off which would be at the end of the private session this afternoon so we 'll try and get in er rule twenty Regions in their Manage and their Management which will take in three motions , thirty six , thirty seven and forty and then we 'll turn , hopefully , to the Social Security Payments Resolutions , you 'll remember that they fell off , composite two eight three , motions three seven nine , three eight five and three eight six . |