Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIRST-TIME buyers are queueing to snap up homes for a £1 down-payment . |
| 2 | People often buy on impulse while they are queueing to pay . |
| 3 | SEAFOOD fans are queueing to buy the Eldorado prawn . |
| 4 | There are 12 Jensen cars in the Pure Class restoration workshops at Ross on Wye and customers are queueing to bring their vehicles in . |
| 5 | Extravagantly groomed , are kneeling to adore |
| 6 | What 's the Devil been eating to get such flesh on him ? ’ |
| 7 | Even women 's magazines have been clamouring to publish photographs of his first ever ride on a scooter ( built by father Giordano ) alongside his old school photographs . |
| 8 | Thousands of football fans have been queueing to book their seats at one of the biggest matches in their club 's history . |
| 9 | But all around him , voices are clamouring to know why it should be Indians who have all the luck . |
| 10 | Brokers and investors cite three other devices that some of those investing public-sector funds are using to give share prices a big boost : |
| 11 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 12 | The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies . |
| 13 | Identifying these patterns helps the parents recognize that the methods they are using to control their children are not working . |
| 14 | I am about to set up a mixed fish/invertebrate tank , and I would be very grateful if you could tell me more about Kalkwasser , which fishkeepers in the USA are using to dose their marine systems . |
| 15 | Where André Malraux has stated that modern art is becoming an ‘ interrogation of the world ’ ( Malraux 1950 : 151 ) , the writers under discussion here do not abandon plot as such but interrogate the very means they are using to structure their works . |
| 16 | This is then used to feed the rabbits which they are producing to provide a valuable source of protein . |
| 17 | This is by no means an easy task when so many types of movement classes and fitness pursuits are competing to attract potential members . |
| 18 | ‘ Mary says you have been helping to feed the sheep . ’ |
| 19 | A third has just returned from an overnight trip to Otterbur in the north-east of England Where it has been helping to move personnel and matériel around the ranges . |
| 20 | Now to the second of our reports from HMS Gloucester , which has been helping to enforce the United Nations sanctions against Serbia . |
| 21 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
| 22 | Fred had been helping to rescue a family trapped in a cellar when a collapsing beam held him trapped by his left arm and leg for several hours , but he made a good recovery . |
| 23 | This column argues the South African officials have been helping to professionalise the game by creating elite city clubs which cream off the best resources at the expense of the poorer , less fashionable sides . |
| 24 | ‘ When Data General showed us the changeover to the AV4100 , it took an hour , ’ says Geoffrey Holmes , a former publisher of ACCOUNTANCY who has been helping to re-implement the system . |
| 25 | The question is , for the last three years , who 's been helping to look after Mummy ? |
| 26 | Along with with Robin Harris , past director of Conservative research department , who is joining the Downing Street policy unit , John O'Sullivan , editor of the US National Review and Sir Ronald Millar , playwright , Mr Patten has been helping to write the Prime Minister 's speech for today 's keynote address . |
| 27 | ‘ At the moment , I am struggling to take in what it all means to me . ’ |
| 28 | It is a book that I greatly admire , for in his own time its author succeeded in doing what I am struggling to do now . |
| 29 | ‘ I am celebrating 10 years in management today and I am struggling to think of a worse away performance . ’ |
| 30 | We do need closer links , not only with the T & G but also with other unions , but let's not forget that other unions are organizing to build up their membership at the expense of the G M B. We need to make up our minds do we want an amalgamation or not . |