Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 2 | But to my mind the boy could begin by showing more respect altogether to people like your father who have been listening to what the League says about the problems of the land and the bosses and the conditions of the men and women who work on it . |
| 3 | I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
| 4 | Response : I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
| 5 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 6 | Erm now to give you and there would be other details by the way er other er information concerning that assignment like how many cards we 're printing like what the target is . |
| 7 | We are going about it the proper way and er nevertheless it will be assessed and costed at the end . |
| 8 | In this case one could argue that I and Thou automatically imply We , since the two of us are sharing between ourselves the field of discourse . |
| 9 | During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , she seemed to be coping with it the best of all of them . |
| 11 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 12 | So on one page , you 'll be reading about what Africans do in Upper Volta , and on the next page , you 'll be reading about what the ancient Aztecs did that is similar . |
| 13 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 14 | ‘ We are afraid you are taking upon yourself the creation of a tool that has an even greater potential for evil than for good . |
| 15 | 1 You are preparing for us the scripts for the following items : |
| 16 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 17 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 18 | One example of this " sham reading " is brought to our notice when we realise , on reaching the bottom of a page , that we have not been thinking about what the text means . |
| 19 | Science explains what is happening around us the whole time . |
| 20 | Now , though , a tendency is developing in which the idea of ‘ polytechnic education ’ is being reduced from ‘ many arts , many skills ’ to simply ‘ many skills ’ . |
| 21 | But he 's moaning to me the other week about you know , er and I bloody near said to him , well er , things have come back on you know , but I should of |
| 22 | I think that what what she is in danger of doing is cutting across what the District Council 's doing , we , er and in East Hertfordshire we are running at a , a composting scheme in conjunction with the County at and I , I , I understand that looks to be very promising . |
| 23 | Perhaps the basic technique is relying on what the literary theorists call " stock responses . |
| 24 | Erm we which is actually putting forward a budget which is responding to what the Policy Committee asks us to do . |
| 25 | Even if the order to which the Minister referred a few minutes ago is introduced , what can the Minister tell us about the Government 's thinking on what the timetable will be ? |
| 26 | Conservative Republicans like Maura and Alcalá Zamora , and even some individuals on the left , recognized the desirability of a modus vivendi between the Church and the Republic , and of the latter 's attracting to it the Catholic sectors of the urban middle class and peasantry . |
| 27 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
| 28 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
| 29 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
| 30 | Sutton was looking at what the public bought today . |