Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] to [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the run-up to next month 's Twickenham showdown , discussions are understood to be taking place on the staging of a floodlit fixture to officially hansel the completed Murrayfield super-stadium in the autumn of 1994 . |
| 2 | Some fear that the statement could catch ‘ innocent ’ schemes as well as any that clearly defeat the purpose of the legislation , and discussions are reported to be taking place between the Revenue and the profession as to how exactly the statement will be implemented . |
| 3 | When a government is weak and under pressure and when policies are seen to be failing , little authority may attach to a Prime Minister and the advantages of office are rapidly turned to personal disadvantage . |
| 4 | but Napier are going to be teaching the course Napier |
| 5 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 6 | Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one . |
| 7 | Artists whose cash-pressed dealers have ended their stipends are said to be climbing on board . |
| 8 | Forty well organised criminal groups are said to be smuggling works of art out of Russia . |
| 9 | Four British manufacturers are believed to be fighting for the contract to supply Virgin with machines . |
| 10 | Up to 20,000 Irish supporters are believed to be planning to go to the US . |
| 11 | Four hundred veteran cars are going to be leaving London 's Westminster Bridge on Sunday , the start of the annual London to Brighton car run . |
| 12 | Arsenal are believed to be watching the situation closely and are set to make their move as soon as Sampdoria give them the signal . |
| 13 | Several of the main fugitives from the present Colombian crackdown on the drugs industry are alleged to be sheltering in Panamanian safe-houses . |
| 14 | It 's very good for revision , because it 's the type of thing your clients are going to be asking you , and it 's the type of thing we 're going to be asking you tomorrow . |
| 15 | Two big Chicago House DJs are rumoured to be rolling up later to take us into town . |
| 16 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 17 | However , shortly afterwards , curio-sellers in Kano were seen to be selling photographs of the man , his wives and followers , and of some of the incidents that had taken place in December . |
| 18 | As early as Dec. 2 , three warships were reported to be proceeding towards the Somali coast carrying a 1,800-strong US Marine task force . |
| 19 | The animals were found to be carrying antibodies against a variant of the hepatitis virus , indigenous to Old World primates , but unknown in the New World outside captivity . |
| 20 | Second , it was written by a working party headed by John McFarlane , which meant that the non-practitioners were seen to be playing a prominent role in the APB 's activities and encouraging widespread debate . |
| 21 | As Clarke and Morrison discuss , their data are comparable with other studies in Fiji : such losses were known to be occurring more than 20 years ago but went unheeded in the wake of development . |
| 22 | A more marginal case is where the defendant is seen to be raising his fists in anticipation of the fight . |
| 23 | And after what 's happened to me Rosella 's going to be treading very carefully indeed . ’ |
| 24 | It is hoped the slabs will block the conduit from which the main force of the lava is said to be bearing down ‘ like a train ’ , causing it to break up and cool . |
| 25 | But behind the scenes the 86-year-old reformer is believed to be working to bring his economic programme back to life . |
| 26 | The department is reported to be formulating ideas for new mechanisms to raise money from the private sector to pay for clean-up . |
| 27 | Professor Parker shows that this is not always a matter of dispassionate assessment but may turn on whether the research is seen to be delivering ‘ good ’ news or ‘ bad ’ news . |
| 28 | Long term sick , I think we all know now that er Pat is going to be retiring on a pension in er beginning of May is it ? |
| 29 | The US Air Force is going to be installing 350 DEC Alpha AXP workstations by April . |
| 30 | For the first time in its brief history , the semiconductor industry is going to be making , and trying to sell , three generations of memory chips in large volumes at the same time . |