Example sentences of "to [be] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 2 | The sanctions had been imposed on Nov. 8 [ see p. 38559 ] with the proviso that they be lifted against republics which could be shown not to be participating in aggression . |
| 3 | But you are fortunate to be writing in English . |
| 4 | You are fortunate to be writing in English as it has a vocabulary of over half a million words — over five times as many as French . |
| 5 | It felt strange to be watching in silence all those lives going on , and although we were aware of all the comings and goings of their lives , they did n't even know we existed . |
| 6 | ‘ Enjoy your nice , quiet evening — and do n't worry , Ross is bound to be getting in touch with you , very soon , ’ she added softly , before running off to answer yet another imperative toot on the horn . |
| 7 | The theory seems to have a middle class bias in that it assumes that all criminal and rule-breakers accept and cherish middle-class goals , but many delinquent activities do not appear to be aiming for material gains . |
| 8 | This was not the most logical of arguments , it would seem , if only because the Hudson recommendations were concerned with craft courses , while TEC and BEC , the latter of which in any case was only likely to be peripherally involved , were supposed to be operating at technician level . |
| 9 | Oh well we d did n't know if we were supposed to be congregating with rest of the people , or what so we just wandered we wandered down the hall |
| 10 | The position was that the Food Controller , purporting to be acting under Defence of the Realm Regulations , had imposed as a condition of the grant of a licence to purchase milk the payment to him by the purchaser of a charge of 2d. per gallon . |
| 11 | We have had complaints from the Thames Valley area about a caller offering financial and mortgage advice , who purports to be acting on behalf of the ICM . |
| 12 | In his radio broadcast , Okar claimed to be acting on behalf of the " oppressed and enslaved people of the Middle Belt and the south " against the " dictatorial , corrupt , drug-baronish , inhumane , sadistic , deceitful , homosexually-centred , polygamistic and unpatriotic " Babangida government . |
| 13 | The OMON appeared to be acting on party orders . |
| 14 | In general terms an indirect customer is a person for whom the firm 's direct customer is known to be acting as intermediary , who is identified to the firm before the transaction and who would be a customer of the firm if dealt with direct . |
| 15 | Service must be effected on one of the persons acting or deemed to be acting as solicitor for the department . |
| 16 | In that same summer , however , occurred the incident involving the Hurufis , to be described shortly , in which Fahreddin Acemi is clearly shown to be acting as Mufti ; and he must therefore have been Mufti at the time of Molla Arab 's putative association with him . |
| 17 | The following persons will be presumed to be acting in concert with other persons in the same category : |
| 18 | It will therefore be important at the outset to establish which persons are likely to be presumed by the Panel to be acting in concert with a party to a takeover . |
| 19 | ( 4 ) Standstill agreements ( see para 1.2 above ) may cause the parties to them to be presumed to be acting in concert and the Panel should be consulted in cases of doubt . |
| 20 | The Notes to Rule 9.1 expand on some of the circumstances in which persons will be deemed to be acting in concert for the purposes of Rule 9 ( see paras 8.4.5 and 8.4.6 below ) . |
| 21 | His mind seemed to be acting like mercury . |
| 22 | Alice 's heart seemed to be thumping in time with the train wheels as she looked at Harry 's glowing face opposite her . |
| 23 | They 're not ill enough to be staying in bed . |
| 24 | The trunks of the gum trees soared bright pink , the tack room windows flared crimson and all the birds in the world seemed to be singing for joy . |
| 25 | The blood in her veins seemed to be singing in fury . |
| 26 | He seemed to be looking into space . |
| 27 | They were computerized , all young enough to be looking for promotion and supposedly as mean as hell . |
| 28 | Time to be looking for summer migrants . |
| 29 | This may reflect a difference in emphasis in that parents seemed to be looking for information about their child 's overall character and behaviour ( eg ‘ good at sharing toys ’ ) whereas staff seemed to report specific good behaviour ( eg ‘ She 's done a lovely painting this morning ’ or ‘ He ate his dinner up nicely today ’ ) . |
| 30 | Students who had studied IT at a polytechnic were rather less likely to be In employment or to be continuing their studies than their university peers , and more likely to be looking for employment ( Table 4.2 ) . |