Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept that the unemployment figures this month are disappointing — no one can deny that — but what we are seeking to do is to put people back into permanent jobs , and not temporary jobs . |
| 2 | What Pomerance and others are attempting to do is to operationalise definitions for proximity , similarity , closure and those type of measures and then they 're seeing whether or not they 're using visual processing time or decision task or attention task to as v as ways of investigating the similarity or otherwise Take this one off or ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This assumes that the diet you are going to follow is reduced by 500 to 1,000 calories per day , which will then have to be derived from your body 's fat store . |
| 6 | Erm well all the groups are going to have be changed around , er , from February erm I do n't exactly know yet |
| 7 | If taken over an extended period , however , patients may start to prove these remedies but fail to realize that new symptoms which they are beginning to experience are linked to the remedy which they are taking . |
| 8 | So what we are aiming to do is to set up more joint projects , like the one on financial instruments , where we have been working very closely with Canada . |
| 9 | Similarly , I , as an anthropologist , am attempting to draw attention to another level at which Greenfield is not being explicit : namely , the fact that what schooled children are doing has been learnt as a convention within a school system . |
| 10 | But a spokesman said that all the claims the family are making had been aired at the mens trial two years ago and rejected by the jury . |
| 11 | Three hamlets on the fringe of a fast expanding new town are fighting to avoid being swallowed up by new development . |
| 12 | ‘ The cost is killing us , and what we are trying to do is make a proportion of business profitable once more . |
| 13 | No one owns this form what we are trying to do is make sure it 's ready so therefore it has an owner . |
| 14 | What we are trying to do is ensure that our training records meet the requirements of B S 5750 . |
| 15 | What they are trying to do is to arrive at insights which are generally true of all humanity ( including the anthropologists themselves ) by observing very small-scale examples of human life . |
| 16 | And what we are trying to do is attract other business into that floor space . |
| 17 | What we are trying to do is serve them direct and there is no problem as far as transport is concerned . ’ |
| 18 | The nearest McIntosh comes to direct criticism is when he says : ‘ What we are trying to do is to provide clients with the services that they want and I think that will be the difference . |
| 19 | What we are trying to do is to provide good people who have an enthusiasm for this kind of catering with a fast route towards management responsibility , and that is a route which , for those who want it , can lead right up into store management and beyond . |
| 20 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 21 | What we are trying to do is to excite , giving black women a voice , in mime . |
| 22 | ‘ What we are trying to do is provide women with the sort of club environment that men are used to and they are not , so that they can relax and talk about business . |
| 23 | ‘ What we are trying to do is to relay six miles of track from Meenglass to Donegal … the Barnsmoor Gap , plus renovate the old coaches still in existence , some of which are now holiday homes and hen houses ! ’ |
| 24 | What you are trying to do is to develop an employee who thinks for himself . |
| 25 | Gazelles are not trying to eat cheetahs , they are trying to avoid being eaten by cheetahs . |
| 26 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |