Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] be [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best Korf could think of was leaving everything to the provincial gentry , which Alexander had tried without success in his Moscow speech of March 1856 . |
| 2 | At the moment he does n't appear to be sharing it with anyone . ’ |
| 3 | exams time , date , I think we 're having it the earliest of the lot , for some stupid reason because Mel does n't appear to be having them till late either . |
| 4 | Moreover , because the bad copy by definition can not claim to be copying anything but itself , it creates its ‘ original ’ retroactively , so that the copy precedes the original in a ghostly originary repetition . |
| 5 | Well you do n't want to be doing it on the machine down here do you ? |
| 6 | The drift of my rhetoric might seem to be taking me towards a traditional defence of literature , of the imagination , of creativity , of humane values in general . |
| 7 | But you do n't seem to be advocating it as a way forward ? |
| 8 | Moreover , to imagine these does seem to be to imagine something with quite strong positive value . |
| 9 | They do n't seem to be doing owt to it , do they ? |