Example sentences of "[v-ing] [be] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can that erm you know if man does n't destroy the world , well what 's happening is that every year the earth moves towards the sun one centimetre . |
| 2 | All that is happening is that the story is taken over at various points by each of the members of the cast . |
| 3 | Alright , and effectively what 's , what 's happening is that the government sectors in erm , in developing countries are very highly subsidized . |
| 4 | what 's happening is that the membership handbook should have been out last week but I think it 's actually going out physically today and I 've done a reminder which 'll be mailed out with it erm making one or two little pointed remarks about blah blah blah this is a very important event and please note it is not in Edinburgh you know erm S S K are very supportive of us we should you know take advantage of this very important |
| 5 | What I hope ( and would like to think ) is happening is that the children are aware of the onlookers , but that they 're making a choice to stay in role ; that their engagement with the issues and the problems of the drama is what is keeping them intent on their work . |
| 6 | What was happening was that the broomstick was swooping up into the sky , now dotted with stars , and that Carol was astride it , just like a witch in a fairy-tale . |
| 7 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 8 | The master questioned the boy and the reason he gave for absconding was that the schoolmaster had ‘ meddled with him ’ . |
| 9 | What Mr seems to be directing is that the settlement should be directed to those areas which are at present have pleasant tree cover and things , which theoretically can assimilate a new settlement which in the context of the Vale of York , tend to be those areas which are th are of the better landscape quality . |
| 10 | Well , I , I , the way I see it going is that the E C will expand to not only Lithuania about being but also other , other , er forms of Soviet Republics . |
| 11 | A further point worth noting is that the business model was supposedly adopted in some parts of local authorities . |
| 12 | The reason I 'm calling is that the lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen has a daughter , Katie , who 's eight , and somehow they 've managed to get hold of some of the videos of your shows with Basil . |
| 13 | The clinching argument in favour of splitting is that the categories can always be recombined into the original , overall meaning ; whereas detail is permanently lost from approaches that are impressionistic from the outset . |
| 14 | There were deep gouges in his left forearm , and the only reason they were n't bleeding was that the flesh was also burnt . |
| 15 | Karimov decreed a reduction in prices affecting students , and an increase in their grants ( one of the principal grievances of the demonstrators having been that the student grant had not kept pace with prices ) . |
| 16 | What , what , what he 's saying is that a revolution is taking place here and it is , within a very short time it 's gon na spread on into other provinces . |
| 17 | What you 're really saying is that a society which is perhaps stable , certainly better , is one in which there 's a fair degree of moderation and a fair degree of evenness in terms of |
| 18 | What I am saying is that a lot of the common English objections to Ezra Pound have substance , and would be worth taking seriously , if only we could be sure that they were advanced in good faith , in humility , and with compassion . |
| 19 | Essentially what all are saying is that a right to consent to medical treatment , whether required under the common law ( see Gillick 's case ) or under statute ( section 8 ) , must and does carry with it a right not only to refuse consent to treatment , but to refuse the treatment itself . |
| 20 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 21 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 22 | What I 'm saying is that an L E A can supply that sort of service , can do it really well , really well , and it is n't available to opted out |
| 23 | When it comes down to it , all you 're saying is that the likes of Tina Turner and Mick Hucknall have created a bloated travesty of soul . |
| 24 | I 've said to my brother Roman Catholic if what you are saying is that the substance of the godhead is in a mystery transferred into our substance that is to say that we are recipitents recipients in the sacrament of the divine life then we go out in faith together believing the same essential . |
| 25 | Oh , I 've no doubt that somewhere down the line these things are are built it , but what I 'm saying is that the majority of dealers these days are including it within the package and saying look this vehicle comes with it completely because there is such erm a demand for this erm type of insurance . |
| 26 | But what you 're then saying is that the taxes start at a very low threshold I E you , you , you start to pay tax at a hundred and fifty Cantonese per person . |
| 27 | Erm it 's a very hard thing for people in that situation to organize a as a group er so what I 'm saying is that the level of unemployment in itself does n't bind people together , but given that is a long-established kind of traditional working class area , there is that tradition of , of , of community that exists anyway , |
| 28 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 29 | ‘ What we are saying is that the ITC will put up the name . |
| 30 | So what you 're really saying is that the computers of the kind you 're describing are for the ordinary person . |