Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grounds were that he had used up his grant entitlement in qualifying to be a teacher . |
| 2 | But the sharpest criticism of him is that while appearing to be a chip off the old block , he was in fact something else , representative of the politicization of public appointments . |
| 3 | I wanted to drop everything and run , but I was so scared of appearing to be a coward , even to myself , that I dared not . |
| 4 | While appearing to be a tactical move by the BCP to try to force the UDF to agree to a coalition , this also reflected strong criticism voiced at the BCP congress of Atanasov 's failure to tackle economic problems . |
| 5 | I mean I think the message that they were communicating last was that it 's about them being appearing to be a good |
| 6 | Where a person appearing to be a mental patient attends court without a guardian ad litem , the court may give the necessary directions under Ord 13 , r 2(1) of its own motion . |
| 7 | ‘ I am a strange mixture of appearing to be a pleasant guy but behind it all I am pretty hard and often grumpy . |
| 8 | My room-mate happening to be a policeman , I was at a loss whether to look upon it as a special honour or a special precaution , mine host putting into my room a representative of the force . |
| 9 | Such comments reveal anchoring to be a universal process . |
| 10 | You appeared on screen , pretending to be a bush , a bush with round purplish leaves and pale green shoots . |
| 11 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 12 | Pretending to be a Polish airman , he almost flew off from Carlisle with one of Britain 's newest fighter planes before his true identity was discovered . |
| 13 | No ad is complete without a small , clean child in it , coddled by a relaxed 27-year-old model pretending to be a 32-year-old . |
| 14 | Mary , his mother , pretending to be a widow , lives in constant dread of Rudge 's menacing demands , and , helped by Varden , tries to hide from him . |
| 15 | And the old Jew had done likewise : coming to live in nearby Heiligenstadt and pretending to be a moneylender . |
| 16 | This is a position which requires the researcher to adopt a false role , for example , pretending to be an author looking for atmosphere for a book or pretending to be a management trainee with a firm . |
| 17 | Like they 'd crawl across the floor in restaurants pretending to be a couple of dogs . |
| 18 | Jesus was God pretending to be a man |
| 19 | Guppy flew to India twice , pretending to be a genuine dealer . |
| 20 | I am here making recordings of the Masai singing about cows and meanwhile my father is sitting in Paris pretending to be a man of the world , a saviour of his people while they are being sent off to be killed . ’ |
| 21 | She is tickling them , pretending to be a fish ; the little girls respond fiercely , their hands jab at hers , they snap open and shut trying to catch Feeny 's in the water , they are laughing , they do n't need to hear every word , they 've heard this story before . |
| 22 | We can study files for decades , but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre : the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report . |
| 23 | I walk along it , pretending to be a tightrope artist . |
| 24 | Harry Burrows rode round his house on Midsummer Eve in a white sheet pretending to be a ghost , we nearly died laughing when he told us — ’ |
| 25 | A young man was chained to the back of the cart for pretending to be a priest . |
| 26 | Or , in my case , ’ he added wearily , ‘ a dwarf pretending to be a boy . |
| 27 | ‘ 'T IS all very well putting on your old gown and pretending to be a serving-girl so we could pass that dolt at the solar door . |
| 28 | What I find uncanny here is that a book which begins with a mocking suggestion about the literary critic as shaman , ends with a story in which Shakespeare is used by an explorer pretending to be a shaman among willing believers convinced of his power . |
| 29 | While not pretending to be a comprehensive guide to all the aspects of central heating , this section should enable you to save considerable sums by installing your own central heating in all but the most complicated of cases . |
| 30 | Harvey was clowning around pretending to be a gunman , which was his way of being sarcastic to me . |