Example sentences of "[v-ing] to be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With violence appearing to be on the wane at the moment , he may well be right that the future looks bright . |
| 2 | a sick child ( preferably appearing to be from the past , ie. black and white photo/line drawing ) |
| 3 | Pretending to be on a stroll , she hiked up to the car park . |
| 4 | I found myself formalizing my speech , as if I too was pretending to be in a drawing-room of forty years before . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , you know how people like to be together , even if they 're pretending to be in the wild , so I was thinking of groupings of four to six cabins per lot . ’ |
| 6 | There 's also a sub-plot about Gloria , one of the guy 's girlfriends , wanting to be on a TV game show . |
| 7 | At the same time there is a conflict between wanting to be on the nest and away from the nest . |
| 8 | The studios are good for those wanting to be near the town but in a quiet spot . |
| 9 | In Bradshaw and Holmes ' study of two-parent , two-child households on benefit , about three-quarters of the women and men lacked more than two items of basic clothing , with women 's clothing tending to be in the worst condition and children 's in the best ( Bradshaw and Holmes , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | Whatever future peace Lebanon can obtain , it is not going to be under the power-sharing system that existed before the start of the civil war . |
| 11 | ‘ Listen , ’ I replied , ‘ pretty soon the whole of south-west London is going to be under the iron heel of Argol of the planet Tellenor . |
| 12 | I managed to get rid of about eighty and if we do sell these extra what twenty or thirty that 's going to be between a hundred and a hundred and fifty pounds profit . |
| 13 | Once they have a decision to work , then I would doubt very much actually they 're going to be into every corner of St Clements and East , or ignoring council estates altogether . |
| 14 | Maybe it 's going to be about a fox . |
| 15 | So good rule is work out the easy one first , now they 're going to be about the same , erm , otherwise they would n't be asking |
| 16 | That is obviously the summary of a long story of consistent dedication , overlaid with constant hesitation and changings of mind and alternations about what the actual plans were going to be about the work that would be left to aftertimes . |
| 17 | ‘ That means you 're going to be off the streets for quite a while . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I can appreciate they 're not exactly going to be over the moon , but this is your life we 're talking about , not theirs . ’ |
| 19 | Surely it does n't require a degree in sociology to realise that people who invest their hard-earned cash in a quality house in a quality development are not going to be over the moon at having that kind of to-ing and fro-ing take place outside their front gates ? ’ |
| 20 | It makes sense therefore , to assume that deep tanks with a restricted surface area are going to be at a strong disadvantage from the very start . |
| 21 | yeah , yeah I must admit it 's a poor do when they know exactly where the criminal 's going to be at a certain time and then they let 'em go |
| 22 | Well you know what the angle 's going to be at the centre already do n't you without |
| 23 | ‘ Everybody in Paris is going to be at the opera tonight , ’ said Monsieur Armand , ‘ and our best singer is ill . |
| 24 | If you are going to be at the Easter Course and would be willing to teach a session ( or two ! ! ) would you let me know , so that I can begin to plan the programme . |
| 25 | is now going to be at the . |
| 26 | But then it was only going to be for a matter of weeks , so what did it matter anyway ? |
| 27 | ‘ If it should rain , it 's not going to be for a very long time . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You see , I suddenly felt that I could n't bear it , not knowing where they were going to be for the next three and a half weeks ( though in retrospect I doubt whether the location of the groom much perturbed me ) . |
| 30 | The externalist can point out how difficult it is going to be for the internalist to provide a satisfying account of knowledge . |