Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is vital , however , that they are able to compete on equal terms , and to achieve this there will need to be funding for the extra costs of clinical research . |
| 2 | Some of Weiss ’ processes appear to be operating in the hard-science fields also , but there are differences . |
| 3 | There are , however , a number of areas in which casualties appear to be moving against the downward trend . |
| 4 | The Government appear to be flying in the face of that report . |
| 5 | And this is just a continuation of that that prejudice against those that appear to be living off the state and not justifying their existence and I think it does n't deserve the time that we 've spent on it tonight . |
| 6 | And not least because after an era of relative restraint in 15-cert films , we appear to be returning to the near glorification of casual sexual encounters . |
| 7 | Standing to paddle , the fishermen are extended by their reflections and appear to be walking on the water on wavering stilts , their long paddles a second leg . |
| 8 | Just like Leeds appear to be doing at the moment . |
| 9 | The report 's contents are not expected to be damaging to the government . |
| 10 | Belinda , five , had n't expected to see Santa yesterday — but then her mother and father , Gill and Paul , had not expected to be celebrating at the hospital . |
| 11 | ‘ I understand people associating me with bands I 've worked on as an engineer , but I do n't understand why I am the only engineer in the world who 's expected to be discriminating about the bands he 's worked with … ’ |
| 12 | Shrewd yet naïve , tough yet appearing to be tottering on the verge of senility , tirelessly interested in people , helping them by stealth , histrionic in the highest degree , quick to spot the comic and to mock the pompous , the processor of a gargantuan ego that was directed almost entirely to good ends , he was one of the most remarkable dons of his day . |
| 13 | Then he flew up beside Cassowary and pretended to be listening to the song . |
| 14 | It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause . |
| 15 | He had always claimed to be acting for the best ; not selfishly , but for all men , as the great sage Confucius had said a ruler should act . |
| 16 | You see I mean er er and this generally , I mean ju just as when Stalin claimed to be communist , that claim has been accepted by the great majority of people writing about what was happening in Russia in the West and in just the same way the Chinese leadership er after nineteen forty nine claimed to be communist , claimed to be standing in the tradition of Marx and that claim , generally speaking , has been accepted . |
| 17 | We expect to be working on the bridge fairly regularly from now on , and , as usual , we will be very glad of extra willing volunteers . |
| 18 | This brings in sanctions against foreign companies found to be contributing to the proliferation of these weapons . |
| 19 | As early as Dec. 2 , three warships were reported to be proceeding towards the Somali coast carrying a 1,800-strong US Marine task force . |
| 20 | Some Bari are reported to be working in the oil camps under semi-slavery conditions . |
| 21 | Another figure of the Duvalier regime , Claude Raymond , a former general , generally held to be behind the disruption of the November 1987 elections [ see pp. 35697-98 ] , was also reported to be campaigning for the presidency , despite a constitutional ban on " notorious Duvalierists " . |
| 22 | Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling . |
| 23 | At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation . |
| 24 | If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend . |
| 25 | However , market forces do not in themselves guarantee the success of the market , and often there needs to be fine-tuning under the exchange 's rules . |
| 26 | A schoolteacher from Eastern Europe , believed to be touring in the area . |
| 27 | Garretta , believed to be living in the USA , was additionally fined F500,000 ( about US$100,000 ) . |
| 28 | Middlesbrough 's Acklam Park is the subject of a £5m bid from property developers Foinavon , believed to be working with the Argyll Group , owner of supermarket chains Presto and Safeway . |
| 29 | A Supreme Court judge , Fabiola Borrero , from the western city of Cali , was shot dead on Sept. 22 by gunmen believed to be working for the Cali drug cartel . |
| 30 | It enables both countries to augment their own dominant positions within the Community while pretending to be acting for the sake of ‘ Europe ’ . |