Example sentences of "[v-ing] to be [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JEWKES reveals BELVILLE disguised as Nan , pretending to be asleep in a chair . ] |
| 2 | ‘ You looked so beautiful , pretending to be asleep in the passenger-seat — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There 's nothing more depressing than pretending to be jolly in a prison camp . ’ |
| 4 | She was n't smiling but she was obviously being polite , nodding and asking questions and pretending to be interested in the answers . |
| 5 | He turned on his heel , and she stumbled after him , not wanting to be alone in the eerie garden where even the birds had been subdued by the fog . |
| 6 | Fears that the Cockney comic was going to be involved in a bust-up sent officers racing to the 400-year-old luxury mansion he converted into a dream lovenest for Tracie . |
| 7 | If the EC Commission goes ahead with a planned registration scheme , the agricultural community is going to be involved in a massive numbering operation — the introduction of a sort of International Standard Cow Number . |
| 8 | AFTER a period when it looked as if airworthy examples of the type were going to be extinct in the UK , Hawker 's Sea Fury is making a comeback . |
| 9 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 10 | I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run . |
| 11 | The the difficulty is knowing what is going to be useful in the future . |
| 12 | At the moment profits are not going to be vast in the shops , but we believe this is a huge market . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , yeah , I 'm , none the less we have got the comments of three , three in front of us and we see that the accumulate effect was going to be dangerous in the extreme if the money is not forthcoming |
| 14 | The game is going to be TV-driven in the future , and rightly so when the worldwide trend is towards seated stadiums with reduced capacities . ’ |
| 15 | Therefore , the historian to my mind who is really a lively and stimulating historian is going to be interested in the future as well as in the past . |
| 16 | Scores were going to be high in the rainy , windy conditions . |
| 17 | Across all divisions , Heartwatch participants are getting younger and younger and it is hoped that everyone who is waiting to be involved in the programme will be given an appointment before summer 1993 . |
| 18 | Our interest in exploring BSL learning is justified by this trend , which is beginning to be apparent in the UK also . |
| 19 | The party 's popular front image , by contrast , captured the imagination of countless intellectuals wishing to be involved in a broad cultural movement committed to the struggle against fascism . |
| 20 | Initial consultations with Third World partners have been generally positive , with partners wishing to be involved in the design of the course . |
| 21 | Families have the worry of trying to keep things together and trying to be supportive in a tense situation . |
| 22 | No wonder Peter lacked confidence and spent all his time merely trying to be amusing in the face of Marc 's uncompromising thirst for excellence ! |
| 23 | Hungarian radio , always trying to be even-handed in the new climate of pluralism , introduced the HSP as the ‘ old-new party ’ in yesterday 's bulletin . |