Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] to [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLAR adventurer David Hempleman-Adams has set off leading a five-man British team attempting to be the first to walk to the north geomagnetic pole without dogs or air-drops . |
| 2 | The TODAY-sponsored team attempting to be the first Britons to climb Everest in winter was desolate at the defeat . |
| 3 | Immediately everyone charged around the room attempting to be the first to touch all the walls . |
| 4 | From the end of the First World War a body claiming to be the Korean government in exile functioned at Shanghai and afterwards , during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45 , at Chungking . |
| 5 | Confidence is high among the experienced Darc Star team hoping to be the first UK successful attempt on the mountain in winter . |
| 6 | EASTERN Electricity is sponsoring a team hoping to be the first Britons to conquer the world 's second highest mountain and survive . |
| 7 | Then she thought how tiring it was going to be for the rest of her life trying to be the Wise Woman all the time . |
| 8 | It was mentioned above that many people find word processing to be the best way in to practical computing for learners . |
| 9 | This approach has been extended into the ‘ tick rate hypothesis ’ ( Humphreys & Revelle , 1984 ; Revelle , 1989 ) which considers the rate of information sampling to be the important underlying factor . |
| 10 | You want snuggling , I got snuggling , she fumed , knowing for sure that she was n't the clinging type but , with some devil on her back , this way seeming to be the only way she could cope with being ‘ engaged ’ . |