Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a timebomb just waiting to be ignited , ’ said a source . |
| 2 | Er I think also helps a lot in this process er and that 's that 's particularly er relevant of the audit practice almost starting to be reduced into the tax practice as well . |
| 3 | But it is a ready-made blueprint for inequality just waiting to be copied by other reactionary governments . |
| 4 | I 've got a ceiling just waiting to be painted . ’ |
| 5 | Water itself is , of course , a combined source of oxygen just waiting to be liberated via the breakdown of water vapour through photosynthesis . |
| 6 | Yes , there 's a bit more plastering to be done yet . |
| 7 | I was in Winchester for St Giles ’ Fair last month — ' he paused and shook his head ‘ — but ‘ t was a poor showing this year , half the town still needing to be rebuilt , and the other half with scarce two farthings to rub together . |
| 8 | Is the hon. Gentleman really trying to be serious , or will he come through the Lobby with us tonight ? |
| 9 | Two lovely lads I 'll tell you and that concert tonight going to be er absolute corker it 's at the Royal Concert Hall tonight in Nottingham . |
| 10 | There 's a cool half million pounds in the kitty just waiting to be snapped up … a NEW 50,000 Generation Name Game , the latest thing in family fun … the chance to scoop a fortune on Vernons Pools and , of course , diamonds , diamonds , diamonds . |
| 11 | You remind me of a beautiful ripe peach just waiting to be picked but when you 're opened up — surprise , surprise ! |
| 12 | First flight still going to be in April . |
| 13 | First flight still going to be in April ? |
| 14 | Shiona held her for a moment , her anger instantly vanishing to be replaced by a warm , maternal well of love . |
| 15 | Is such a level of reliability and degree of assurance now going to be expected in the preparation and audit of annual accounts ? |
| 16 | Young H from Wallasey was a pretty major exception to this rule — he did the drop in of doom off the extension to flat bottom hipper , slashed about did mass ollies onto the extension , laybacks , wore an agnostic Front tee , and generally skated like he 'd been around since the sevs and was a dwarf just pretending to be under 16 . |
| 17 | The entire village is a children 's paradise , a stimulating world just waiting to be discovered . |
| 18 | He did not seem to appreciate the contradiction between his virulent denunciations of parliamentary democracy and the increasingly close economic ties being woven between Spain and the western democracies ; nor between his belief that economic nationalism was best and the fact that unless Spain liberalized its economic policies , it would remain isolated from the growth then beginning to be enjoyed by the rest of Europe . |
| 19 | FOR THE second Wednesday running racing from Hong Kong will be screened by SIS in the betting shops this afternoon , with Southwell 's all-weather fixture again appearing to be cold shouldered , writes Chris Hawkins . |
| 20 | From the barren Sahara in the south to the fertile wine-producing plains of the north , Tunisia is a land of variety and surprise just waiting to be experienced . |
| 21 | No wonder Peter lacked confidence and spent all his time merely trying to be amusing in the face of Marc 's uncompromising thirst for excellence ! |
| 22 | There entrepreneurs identified the existence of a seller 's market just waiting to be developed , and created their own demand , which gathered its own momentum and benefited from a snowball effect . |
| 23 | There would be a few instances where a client may come back a year later and say erm , or not nearly six months later , that thing I told you was not in fact now going to be on . |