Example sentences of "[noun] to be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After successive allegations by Sierra Leone in late March and early April that Taylor 's forces had raided Sierra Leonean villages , killing numbers of civilians , Sierra Leonean forces were reported by mid-April to be operating inside Liberian territory held by the NPFL , while NPFL troops with heavy weapons were said to be advancing into Sierra Leone , both sides claiming successes . |
| 2 | I hope over the next few months to be writing about all these accessories in more detail . |
| 3 | ‘ It is a dream to be playing with all these top players . |
| 4 | A cairn marks the crossroads , and although the outrageously boggy path will cover you in peat to the armpits , you may hug yourself in delight to be walking in empty country again , as the cries of ‘ Look , Mam . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's true he was in Oxford while I was there , and the schools were no very safe place to be singing about great Llewelyn in his seven-foot grave , or making verses after the manner of Cynddelw . |
| 6 | Where a lexia is indicated by Barthes to be functioning within one of these codes it is making a reference beyond its own immediate confines . |
| 7 | It must have been quite a shock for you all of a sudden to be dealing with millions of pounds on the budget . |
| 8 | However , Berry and Crothers ( 1968 ) demonstrated strong stabilising selection to be operating on exposed headlands in Pembrokeshire ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 9 | The implication at the beginning of the text is that the lord feels his worldly duty and his love for God to be pulling against each other and unbalancing him : The state to which Hilton hopes to point him is one of discretion in which self-knowledge and the love of God are the means of integrating what seem like opposites in equilibrium . |
| 10 | The norm , as we have noted , was for different groups to be working in different curriculum areas simultaneously . |
| 11 | By the outbreak of war in 1939 , he was 32 and compared with other pilots was an old man to be flying against German fighters . |
| 12 | Fr John is a lucky man to be coming to this parish . |
| 13 | They reckon it 's no bad thing to be going from one big game to another . |
| 14 | They reckon it 's no bad thing to be going from one big game to another . |
| 15 | This upsurge is reckoned by the environmental consultant Ecotec to be growing at 17 per cent a year , and to be worth 108m currently . |
| 16 | I 'd expected Famlio to be patrolling in deep space , as usual , giving me room to manoeuvre and avoid them . |
| 17 | A year-long survey of Edinburgh has shown much of the city to be suffering from severe air pollution . |
| 18 | Increasingly , the Prime Minister was seen by the public to be working against political trends , both at home and abroad . |
| 19 | As more Disability Arts Forums emerge and the involvement of disabled people and non-disabled allies increases , this is the most rapidly shifting and most exciting time to be working towards this aim . |
| 20 | She writes : ‘ This is a great time to be working in Human Genetics and I like the human and applied aspects of my research ’ . |
| 21 | Before I am going to talk about er urodynamic evaluation of patients with symptoms of outflow obstruction , I think it 's a good time to be talking about this when , particularly in North America , we 're being encouraged to move towards a questionnaire or score in order to select patients for treatment , whether that treatment be surgical treatment or , or other treatment . |
| 22 | ‘ In some ways I 'm not really the guy to be asking about all this , because Quo have such a one-off sound . |