Example sentences of "to be [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 2 | However , we believe that for children not to be taught anything about language is seriously to their disadvantage . |
| 3 | It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all . |
| 4 | You 're supposed to be meeting her in Paris tomorrow , are n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | By the time Ellie did finally remember she was supposed to be meeting someone in Dublin , the afternoon was well advanced . |
| 6 | Rosa made a little game out of answering , so pleased was she to be entertaining him with her talk . |
| 7 | How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters . |
| 8 | He seemed to be watching her like a hawk , waiting for some reaction . |
| 9 | Bert Rafferty 's voice was subdued but firm , almost , Harriet felt , as if he was relieved to be getting something off his chest . |
| 10 | " Oh never mind , Lord Hulton , they seem to be getting them down the hill now and I 'm not in such a panic this morning , anyway . " |
| 11 | You are going to be getting them at the end of the case in any event and why should you be kept out of them ? |
| 12 | Like the new media , phosphate removal seems to be getting plenty of attention lately . |
| 13 | At the moment he does n't appear to be sharing it with anyone . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah but are you supposed to be wearing it around the school ? |
| 15 | Unveiling the route in London yesterday , the Tour 's general manager , Jean-Marie Leblanc , said : ‘ The Tour is truly a European event and we are delighted to be bringing it to England . |
| 16 | We are immensely proud to be bringing it to the UK for the first time . |
| 17 | ‘ It suddenly struck me how difficult it 's going to be to explain everything to Elise . ’ |
| 18 | And many an insect was saved , perhaps from the very same predator , by an uncannily close resemblance to a twig , on occasions when the predator happened to be seeing it at relatively close range and in a good light . |
| 19 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 20 | After breaking into two local homes and hi-jacking the occupants ' cars the IRA launched their attack on the apparently vulnerable target only to be ambushed themselves by the SAS . |
| 21 | His new book , as yet untitled , but probably to be called something like Raymond Blanc — Cooking at Home , is going to be full of explanations . |
| 22 | I was grateful to be called anything at all . |
| 23 | Nor did the Flemings feel that he was really supporting them ; he had appeared to be using them for his own ends . |
| 24 | Er , Switzerland is one country that has banned the use of animals for research , and I think we ought to be going along these lines that , if animals have rights we ought not to be using them for experimentation . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
| 26 | I use a small piece of putty over the nozzle for speed and short-term storage ; but if I 'm not going to be using it for a while , I take the top off and place a small piece of Clingfilm over the bottle , then screw the top back on again . |
| 27 | I was half proud , half ashamed to be using it in this way . |
| 28 | If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time . |
| 29 | Just because we appear to be gorging ourselves on war coverage does n't mean to say that we swallow it whole . |
| 30 | Now one of the things th we find that when we play an Adam Faith record , we tend to be singing it for the rest of the day you know , like What Do You Want |