Example sentences of "that [pron] be [v-ing] this " in BNC.

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1 It is evident , too , that everyone is doing this at a time when thoughts of recession could easily exclude any charitable action .
2 It 's for him that I am accepting this honour .
3 It is precisely because I care about the future of humanity that I am undertaking this work . ’
4 It is for that very reason that I am moving this motion today as it gives us the opportunity to implement the rules of the union and at the same time would enable us to put into position , people who would be able to do all those things that are necessary to achieve what we require , recruitment , organization , paperwork , back-up service to full-time officials .
5 In view of the fact that I am walking this is somewhat academic , but it gives us a point of contact .
6 Congratulations , it is with immense gratitude that I am saying this ; I am fully aware of the dedication , the hard work ingenuity and imagination which has made it possible to celebrate a 40th Anniversary of the Medau Society .
7 But it , it 's , it , bear with me , if , if you feel that I 'm taking this very slowly , just look around the room , and you 'll see confused faces somewhere else .
8 It 's in the case of how we police students that the question about where we draw the line and how far we become engaged are most problematic , I think , and it 's in that case really that I 'm proposing this distinction .
9 Can I be sure that I 'm interpreting this correctly .
10 After all , one of the reasons that I 'm doing this job is that I 'm plugged into what 's going on out there .
11 What keeps me going is knowing that I 'm doing this for my children , not out of choice .
12 I 'd hate you to imagine that I 'm doing this out of the goodness of my heart , ’ he said through clenched teeth .
13 Get your salary , that you feel that I 'm doing this and I 'm getting it right .
14 Now please do n't think that I 'm saying this for the benefit of somebody else .
15 That did settle me because it was such a nice feeling to think that I was sharing this memorable day with the rest of my family .
16 The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this .
17 For several years that basic idea of using a flight simulator kept coming up in my mind and it was in 1974 , after I had attended the meeting of the Accident Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal , that I was discussing this same problem with Bernard Caiger of the Canadian National Research Council .
18 Until recently , I was just amazed that I was doing this with a reasonable amount of success .
19 It must have been in the late 1960s or early 1970s that I was bemoaning this problem with my French colleague Michel Vigier who was also disturbed at the prospect of being snowed under with an indigestible amount of data from DFDRs .
20 So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose .
21 ‘ The lady prefers not to have us reveal any details , only to say that she is doing this out of love for her late husband , ’ he said .
22 Yeah , I know , I did n't think she se , she did n't realise that you know that she was seeing this
23 The fact that she was doing this and not looking at her old friend made her doubts about this statement less evident , but all the same my mother protested .
24 Folly could n't believe that she was letting this happen .
25 If you choose to abandon formality ( 'Why do n't we discuss this over a drink ? ' ) then you are playing high status in that you 're taking this decision , and allowing the other person perhaps to rise above their station .
26 Weighing in at only a few ounces , you hardly notice that you 're wearing this jacket .
27 ‘ I do n't think , Hilda , that you 're approaching this revival of interest in Walter 's work in the right frame of mind . ’
28 ‘ You ca n't have any real scruples about our supposed affair or we would n't be working for you , so I can only assume that you 're making this personal attack for the sheer hell of it , because you once got a kick out of disapproving of me — despising me — and you 're trying to recapture the thrill of it all . ’
29 What 's come out in the in the telephone call which you recorded was that er the father baby she is alleging is actually her own father what do you think do you think that puts her in any danger the fact that you 're making this public that the father may hear this .
30 Listen to his way with Chopin 's instruction la melodia tenuta e legata in the E minor , Op. 25 No. 5 , or the urgency ( rather than mere proficiency ) with which the notorious thirds of Op. 25 No. 6 are propelled , and you may well feel that you are hearing this music for the first time .
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