Example sentences of "to [be] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have given her an excuse to be searching for a particular room , but she had been so frightened … |
| 2 | Instead he went over to one of the shelves and pretended to be searching for a book . |
| 3 | When he comes to the first dramatic event he appears to be reaching towards a dramatic present here comes but is constrained by the prevailing past tense of the narration . |
| 4 | Harrison and Wood claim to be writing in a period during which there has been ‘ growth of a critical self-consciousness about the history of Modernism itself ’ . |
| 5 | Müncheberg ; the crew were seen by him to be getting into a dinghy . |
| 6 | Those students who take Celtic through to honours level tend to be aiming for a Gaelic-related job ( eg in journalism or broadcasting , Government agencies , local government or teaching ) ; but a typical first-year class also includes many who simply have an interest in Scotland 's languages or heritage . |
| 7 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 8 | By 1995 the zone was expected to be operating as a fully integrated common market of 90,000,000 people . |
| 9 | When viewing behaviour the firm is , in effect , given the benefit of the doubt and assumed to be operating in a competitive manner unless and until some cause for concern is expressed . |
| 10 | So Weberian theory has slowly shifted its concerns away from bureaucrats to a related interest in the tendency for state officials to be operating in a corporatist manner : mediating between warring groups in the ‘ national interest ’ . |
| 11 | One broker was found to be operating from a telephone box at Heathrow airport . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As before in the cellar , all eyes turned to McNab who , once again , happened to be leaning against a wall at the back . |
| 14 | I always seem to be reading about a new food scare . |
| 15 | Penelope walked slowly away from the house , then pretended to be locking at an empty house which was to be sold two doors away from where Rupert lived . |
| 16 | Excuse me I 've got not exactly hay-fever but I think I 'm going to be sneezing for a few minutes . |
| 17 | This section of the MAS Practice Guide is an introduction to the area of work where the Firm is deemed to be acting as a lead advisor in a public transaction . |
| 18 | The refugee camp there was said to be acting as a " magnet " , encouraging more Haitians to put to sea , and it was confirmed that the camp would be phased out . |
| 19 | A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall , if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor , be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting [ and therefore being required to hold a practising certificate ] if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services ( a ) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor ; ( b ) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified ; or ( c ) by a body recognised by the Council of the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( incorporated practices ) . |
| 20 | If a respondent is known to be acting by a solicitor , service may be effected on the solicitor by delivery to his office , by first-class post , by use of a document exchange or by fax . |
| 21 | As far as I am concerned the whole point of Punch is to attack those in authority when they are seen to be acting in a way not worthy of respect . |
| 22 | If ministers appear to the courts to be acting in a way which is arbitrary or unfair ( as in Padfield and Tameside and Laker ) then the limitations will be insisted on . |
| 23 | These cover the situations where a public authority is alleged to be acting outside its statutory powers , to be acting in a grossly unreasonable way , or to be abusing the rules of natural justice governing procedure . |
| 24 | The Irish-American group claimed to be acting in a purely private capacity on its three-day trip , which included talks with Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Ulster Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew . |
| 25 | The British legal system is already in a bit of a sorry state but this is only part of the story because we are faced with a creaking Government bureaucracy that has often been shown by the Higher Courts to be acting in an illegal and unfair manner . |
| 26 | She needs help in the house , for a start , and you will inform her she is not to be acting like a servant . |
| 27 | I 'm not prepared to accept that any more than I am prepared to accept the hogwash that we heard from Bob Morgan and his Liberal Democrats , because of course it may be extremely comfortable for him to be acting like a beached dolphin on the shores of Abu Dhabi , but the fact of the matter is , of course , that the Liberal Democrats , with or without the backs of their envelopes and cigarettes packets , are extremely unlikely to be making any national legislation , so they are quite comfortable in being able to observe how others might or might not do it . |
| 28 | So it our recommendation that it is premature at this pro frozen moment of time particularly with the additional thoughts of the inner northern relief road to be considering in a structure plan a western relief road . |
| 29 | He 's supposed to be staying at a children 's home , but he spent last night in police cells after being arrested for the thirtieth time — for breaching bail conditions . |
| 30 | Lynda seems to be staying on a bit , oh no , no , she does have to stay till two sometimes . |