Example sentences of "[v-ing] to be a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the sharpest criticism of him is that while appearing to be a chip off the old block , he was in fact something else , representative of the politicization of public appointments . |
| 2 | Well they are erm , we got those from a place the other side of Ipswich on the Shotley peninsula , I think it says Paul Doubleday in , name of the nursery and that 's a genuine nursery , not some of these pretending to be a nursery in a garden centre , he se he grows stuff to sell to Councils and you know big organizations |
| 3 | Like they 'd crawl across the floor in restaurants pretending to be a couple of dogs . |
| 4 | I am here making recordings of the Masai singing about cows and meanwhile my father is sitting in Paris pretending to be a man of the world , a saviour of his people while they are being sent off to be killed . ’ |
| 5 | What I find uncanny here is that a book which begins with a mocking suggestion about the literary critic as shaman , ends with a story in which Shakespeare is used by an explorer pretending to be a shaman among willing believers convinced of his power . |
| 6 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
| 7 | I was not sure that I had been baptized ( having shrunk back from the outstretched hand with water in my late teens , believing baptism a piece of medieval nonsense ) , while wanting to be a member of the church . |
| 8 | They not only face the dangers of living in a war-torn society , but also risk torture or death for wanting to tell the truth as they see it and for refusing to be a part of the various propaganda machines that are fuelling the present conflict . |
| 9 | She was fed up , she was hungry , and now she would have to confront a horde of troublesome workmen lounging about the house , banging nails , screwing screws and making ribald comments when what she had thought she was escaping to was a slice of peace and solitude . |
| 10 | By then , Odette was training to be a nurse at a hospital in Chelmsford . |
| 11 | Susan Hyland joined the British Foreign Service , while Anne McGivern survived the torturous B.C.L. programme and is now training to be a barrister in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education . |
| 13 | He explained that he was training to be a teacher in Bechar , a large town a little north of where I had begun walking . |
| 14 | It 's going to be a heck of a game and er there 'll be some surprises as well . |
| 15 | I think we 've got to draw the line and say there is going to be a cost to our econ our ecology , if we allow it to run in the way the government have in mind . |
| 16 | Well I think it 's going to be a case of phone the council and ask them |
| 17 | She says it is going to be a struggle for her because it is quite a severe leg injury but she 's determined and what we 're looking at now is very good recovery so thpat should continue . |
| 18 | We , we felt at the end of the seventies that there was no question that the eighties was going to be a decade of increasing food shortages , and widespread famine , that is , people literally dying for want of food . |
| 19 | If there is going to be a change of time signature prepare it by making a bridge passage , so that the new beat is clearly signalled and the transition is easy . |
| 20 | It has to be clearly understood that whether LMS or GMS there is inevitably going to be a change in the existing relationships at all levels ; this will have implications for where differing and changed levels of power will lie . |
| 21 | Have you got any idea in your retirement about how you 're going to keep yourself so that your body is not going to be a handicap to you ? |
| 22 | okay , either way , it 's going to be a drain in the income to bring someone else in . |
| 23 | You 've got a form R eighty five which is available for bank and building society investors , and if you 've got er a gross account then er you , you have to agree with the revenue that you are not going to be a taxpayer in the year that you take out the er R eighty five . |
| 24 | It 's going to be a service of thanksgiving for the work of the bee in the church on Sunday November 28 . |
| 25 | Once , I was going to be a bridesmaid in a blue dress , and when I needed new shoes before the wedding , I refused to have blue shoes , insisting on brown ones . |
| 26 | There 's going to be a competition for the best alternative verse I think . |
| 27 | Mr. Newman said that he felt that the threatened closure of magistrates courts would mean there is no longer going to be a system of local justice in the country . |
| 28 | We 've gone away from the days of systems imposed by the data processing department , this is going to be a system for the users . ’ |
| 29 | Er eh in er in Lanarkshire and Motherwell , and er at that time , being a young lad no more between er f er fourteen and twenty , I realized then that was n't going to be a life for me . |
| 30 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |