Example sentences of "to be [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes seemed to be trying to imitate a lizard and swivel in opposite directions . |
| 2 | Other seem to be trying to assuage a guilt known only to themselves , and a few are out to keep Ali a player , a lure to those who might want to use his name in business ; though the marketplace turns away from billboards in decline . |
| 3 | He appears to be trying to escape a pursuer who has seized the long hair at the back of his head . |
| 4 | On Sundays the ‘ psalm children ’ came from the villages to be heard reciting a psalm which they had learnt by heart during the week . |
| 5 | The tubes may have to be cut to accommodate a powerhead pump on each one . |
| 6 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 7 | Keeton spent three years there before returning to Cambridge , where he established himself as a private tutor to Law students , while he waited to be invited to fill a vacancy for a legal appointment in the Foreign Office . |
| 8 | Some were just curious , and would pretend to have lost their way and hope to be invited to spend a night . |
| 9 | I was pleased to be invited to contribute a foreword for this new journal on technology transfer , not least because its title — Competitive Edge — so aptly sums up what we all want British industry to achieve . |
| 10 | ‘ There is simply not enough evidence for a jury to be invited to consider a charge of manslaughter against Smith and Winter , ’ he said . |
| 11 | It is hard to convey to those who do not remember the abysmal depths of post-war British catering what a heady sensation it was to be invited to strike a blow for improvement — or to strike a restaurant off for bad cooking , uncleanliness or lack of attention . |
| 12 | ‘ The customers were mostly Japanese and the girls sat in a damp back room waiting to be called to join a man at his table . |
| 13 | I do n't think so , th the point is I 'm not going to be called to tie a knot like this again for maybe three weeks and then by then I 'll make things up it was really more for convenience than sitting down trying to work it out myself so you know . |
| 14 | The main problem , said Ryzhkov in December , was an acute shortage of rolling stock : freight tariffs had barely changed in 40 years and had to be raised to finance a modernization plan for 1991-2000 . |
| 15 | This is especially the case when the boy or girl to be adopted has a disability or a disturbed background . |
| 16 | Whatever curves I specified had to be made using a bandsaw , a drum-sander , spokeshave and scraper . |
| 17 | The first point to be made echoes a remark in the opening paragraph of this chapter ; namely that effective creative production and an ongoing state of serious mental illness seem quite incompatible . |
| 18 | Within the review sections attempts began to be made to develop a discourse that was at once professionally autonomous and modernizing , critical as well as scholarly . |
| 19 | He did n't want to be made to look a bastard to his friends . |
| 20 | With the Sun now passing through Virgo and the travel angle of your solar chart , you seem to be determined to strike a blow for freedom . |
| 21 | Yes , it is difficult to believe that before Sly Stallone was blasting out showers of bullets , he was at one time more likely to be seen wielding a pair of scissors and blowing hot and cold with a hairdryer . |
| 22 | There he could entertain certain people who might be useful — people with information to give but who were afraid to be seen entering a barracks or Dublin Castle … . |
| 23 | The new entrepreneur in Russia wants to be seen driving a performance car , but one which is tough enough for the conditions there . |
| 24 | But I 'd be surprised if they had n't a front-runner in mind , because there will be a lot of hard work to be done getting a replacement this summer . |
| 25 | The office in question was not minor patronage , for as Scott remarked , it had a value of from £300 to £1,800 per annum , and for that reason it was unlikely to be given to gratify a town council . |
| 26 | He was a practitioner of the old school who was intrigued to be asked to treat a child named after the mother of Oedipus , but unimpressed with anything she had to say . |
| 27 | Maitland to be asked to circulate a copy of the draft Minute of Agreement to Christian Aid and SCIAF before the next meeting so that this can be looked at . |
| 28 | Everyone here is going to be asked to give a statement . |
| 29 | Mr Ciampi , who is 72 , is the first non-parliamentarian to be asked to form a government . |
| 30 | Now , the Leader of that parliamentary party with an overall majority is entitled to be asked to form a government . |