Example sentences of "to be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appeared to be searching for some key document . |
| 2 | I just , you know , some meant to be meeting at five past one |
| 3 | In a context where design debate , narrowly conceived , seems to be meeting with little success in evaluating design 's social import , the questions raised — is design the means whereby we can shape future socio-technological systems to create a richer and more emancipated life or simply the often impotent agent of techno-economic systems ? — become a means to general design understanding . |
| 4 | He proposes to become a capitalist and a ship-insurer , but seems not to be meeting with much success . |
| 5 | If his mind was too restless to maintain any hold on the spiritual , then did n't he have something far more immediate to face up to rather than to be wallowing in daily bouts of nostalgia ? |
| 6 | They are shortly to be voting on new student dress regulations that will allow school principals to ban the sign from their institutions . |
| 7 | We need to be monitoring for more data . |
| 8 | I hope over the next few months to be writing about all these accessories in more detail . |
| 9 | I want to get the now constantly recurring image or memory of the scraggy sheep huddled together at night in the bus shelter off the top of my mind : it is disconcerting to be writing about one thing and yet be presented while doing so with quite another set of pictures . |
| 10 | Mrs Howard had an interview with the Brewers [ her prospective employers ] last night , but I to not wish to be writing about that . |
| 11 | where did I , I 'm not sure whether I ought to be getting into this but I will . |
| 12 | And abruptly , from what buried part of her muddled brain she had no idea , she found herself shaking her head , reaching out a hand which seemed to be operating on automatic pilot . |
| 13 | However , Berry and Crothers ( 1968 ) demonstrated strong stabilising selection to be operating on exposed headlands in Pembrokeshire ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 14 | A spokesman said the hotel hoped to be operating at 55 per cent occupancy within its first year and up to 70 per cent within three to four years . |
| 15 | After successive allegations by Sierra Leone in late March and early April that Taylor 's forces had raided Sierra Leonean villages , killing numbers of civilians , Sierra Leonean forces were reported by mid-April to be operating inside Liberian territory held by the NPFL , while NPFL troops with heavy weapons were said to be advancing into Sierra Leone , both sides claiming successes . |
| 16 | Then , in open recognition of the novelty of the charge and the conviction , and the circumstance that Tan genuinely believed herself to be operating within current criminal law , the Court of Appeal suspended the custodial sentence for two years with , however , a stern warning that others offending in like manner would receive immediate and substantial custodial sentences . |
| 17 | The Tunnel is due to open in December 1993 , but full rail services are unlikely to be operating before mid-1994 . |
| 18 | A small , battered house in a small battered terrace ; the buildings appeared to be leaning on one another for support . |
| 19 | I 'd expected Famlio to be patrolling in deep space , as usual , giving me room to manoeuvre and avoid them . |
| 20 | His smiles , his glances , his gentle intimacies … somehow they had all seemed to be pointing in that direction . |
| 21 | The place seemed to be swarming with little horsey girls who vied to do Miss Bedwelty 's bidding . |
| 22 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 23 | And occasionally she did n't even seem to be acting at all . |
| 24 | I mean if one can use a slightly awkward word like ‘ policing ’ , and I think there is a sense that none of us want to be acting as substitute parents and , you know , policing student behaviour in a way that suggests that they 're not yet fully mature . |
| 25 | She seems to be staying with that girl that lives up in erm . |
| 26 | The sub-text is often : ‘ I 've no desire whatsoever to be speaking on this phone to anyone . ’ |
| 27 | We 're gon na to be speaking to one or two er expert voices or er deeply interested parties in a moment or twos time . |
| 28 | The latter two did not appear to be speaking to each other , and Sid and Algernon were prowling round each other like lean and hungry panthers waiting for an opportunity to strike . |
| 29 | Conversation , not only on that day , got on to An Adventure and would not easily get off it , though we wished to be speaking of other things . |
| 30 | Because if you 're speaking from a script you 're going to be speaking like this . |