Example sentences of "[vb base] to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | No farm worker welcomes the prospect of having to uproot his family should he , because he is ill , injured at work , made redundant , has achieved retirement or had a row with his boss , cease to be employed on the farm . |
2 | Timber buildings may simply rot and collapse , and other features such as pits and ditches will silt up very rapidly once they cease to be maintained . |
3 | ‘ I never cease to be struck by the extraordinarily high performances individuals can turn in when faced with a challenge properly identified and given the means to deliver . |
4 | They also cease to be stolen when taken into police possession : A-G 's Ref . |
5 | These principles should n't be forgotten or cease to be put into effect simply because your child is becoming a young adult . |
6 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
7 | ‘ His lapses appear to be getting fewer . ’ |
8 | Just as the disease process has moments when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse . |
9 | Just as the disease process has moments when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse . |
10 | Just as the disease process has moments when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse . |
11 | We ought to be seeking to build on the quite hopeful developments , in the greater Beirut area anyway , over the last few days , but instead we appear to be getting even more dog in the manger in our attitude towards Syria . |
12 | Despite the jitters the cost escalation has caused in the City , the French appear to be taking a more sanguine view . |
13 | THE seeds of popular revolt that appear to be taking root across Romania were sown last Thursday in the north-western town of Timisoara when President Nicolae Ceausescu 's security forces moved to evict the Protestant pastor , Laszlo Tokes , who has long been a thorn in the side of the regime . |
14 | Now , at last , scientists appear to be taking a long , hard look at fluoridation and the uncontrolled , indiscriminate use of fluoride-containing dental products . |
15 | Melbourne dental surgeon Geoffrey Smith ends his excellent article ( 5 May , p 286 ) with the statement — ‘ Now , at last , scientists appear to be taking a long , hard look at fluoridation … ’ |
16 | No tote and with the betting shops closed , Sunderland appear to be taking quite a financial chance on their October 11 meeting . |
17 | What the HMI appear to be taking issue with here in a particularly strongly value-laden way is something that other writers have variously called ‘ formal ’ , ‘ traditional ’ , ‘ product ’ , ‘ production ’ , ‘ transmission ’ , ‘ class-enquiry ’ , ‘ recitation ’ and ‘ discipline-based ’ teaching . |
18 | Given the leading role that Ms Rodham Clinton and Donna Shalala , the Health and Human Services secretary , appear to be taking in developing solutions , and their explicit interest in children , we should watch for this ‘ wild card . ’ |
19 | In such an organization you feel hemmed in by people who can refuse you permission to do something or who are only waiting to jump all over you if you appear to be taking the initiative , or achieving something which even they may recognize as being highly desirable , in ‘ the wrong way ’ . |
20 | Nevertheless , the focus of the chapter will be on verbal communication , since this is an area in which interesting and important developments appear to be taking place during the primary school years . |
21 | Goodness knows what will be in these late proofs , they appear to be taking months to prepare . |
22 | Since atmospheric perspective is disregarded also , the furthest buildings appear to be placed above rather than behind the ones in the foreground . |
23 | The oral papillae appear to be arranged in two series : a superficial series edging the side of the jaw and a series within the mouth slit which might be oral tentacle scales associated with the first and second oral tentacle pores . |
24 | The oral papillae appear to be arranged in three tiers . |
25 | And yes , they appear to be substantiated . |
26 | Moreover , as revealed by in situ hybridization analysis , the GGFs appear to be expressed in the nervous system during embryonic development . |
27 | It is at this point , where the routines become more closely aligned with the self and where they appear to be dealing reasonably successfully with the ever-present problem of control , that the habit becomes hard to break and that threats to it will be resisted . |
28 | Interviews conducted during the course indicate the importance of task achievement and of the related social processes which encourage self development ; and these consequences appear to be sustained over time . |
29 | Third , the Big Six appear to be operating within a form of audit oligopoly in which the market and price for audit services are controlled by their presence . |
30 | Some of Weiss ’ processes appear to be operating in the hard-science fields also , but there are differences . |