Example sentences of "[noun] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one 's chest at the dinner table . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Ought Faustina to be licking out that bowl ? ’ asked Mark . |
| 3 | The blue component of incoming solar radiation is scattered so severely that it appears to our eyes to be coming from the entire sky . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I 'm not I 'm not in the frame of mind to be saying this kid was off for a week with flu then and was off |
| 6 | With talk of the Iranians having mobilized half a million combat troops , Iraq made arrangements for a formidable assembly of Soviet helicopter gunships and other matériel to be waiting for them . |
| 7 | This Memorandum was a formal , public document , evidently intended by the parties to be binding upon them . |
| 8 | That would mean that even if the final decision rested with the Secretary of State he would be seen by all concerned parties to be basing his judgment on neutral , expert scientific advice . |
| 9 | That 's my ambition to be roaring in against the Aussies next year . |
| 10 | It was not the thing for a high-ranking police officer with still rising ambition to be eating his supper in Jack 's Fish Bar . |
| 11 | Using the information above , for what purposes would you expect particular lorries and cars to be travelling on the M8 , either way between Glasgow and Livingston ? |
| 12 | OK , so I 've never seen Kurt look quite that pale before , and I 'm not sure it 's such a good idea for Courtney to be zipping about with Kurt on that hired motorbike while seven months pregnant but , hell , it 's not as if anyone 's dead . |
| 13 | Simply transmitting information from input to output may seem a trivial task , but the neuron has two opportunities to be discriminating in performing it . |
| 14 | On one level , it is quite a good joke in the decade of Brecht 's Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan to be relishing the washing-up scene in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the decade of Sartre 's La Nausée and ( as far as English publication was concerned ) Joyce 's Ulysses , to be whooping with delight at the reprint of Adventures of Tom Pippin by Roland Zuiz . |
| 15 | Perhaps you regard the main function of talk to be giving information directly and honestly . |
| 16 | ‘ Not seemly , ’ she observed , her eyes dancing with merriment , for a widow and her parish priest to be laughing so loudly in church at the expense of his parishioners ! |
| 17 | If advance arrangements have been made for a car to be waiting at the Hill Inn in Chapel-le-Dale to give a return to Ingleton in effortless comfort , the route followed by Three peaks walkers from Whernside 's summit is the best to adopt . |
| 18 | Where the defendant is aware of the contents , however , as he generally will be with prosecutions under this section , the prosecutor must show that the defendant was aware that others might find his words to be threatening , abusive of insulting . |
| 19 | But he could also be dismayed if Christians were heard by pagans to be talking nonsense about nature . |
| 20 | Lastly as the heater requires the fan to be blowing air from the n/s wing is the fan actually working ? |
| 21 | At the present time interpretation , often of a narrow and unrewarding kind , flourishes , usually though falsely claimed on publishers ' blurbs to be saying something completely new and important . |
| 22 | New research by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has shown ozone depletion to be occurring twice as fast as previously thought . |
| 23 | Not much cop considering that the game requires a hefty one hundred of the little blighters to be meandering about at once ! |
| 24 | non-CASE students were twice as likely as their CASE peers to be working in education ; |
| 25 | Just before seven she left Jed to pick out some toys and books to be taking with him — and it 's got to be a portable amount , she warned and went to check that she would n't be needed for a while . |
| 26 | I assure the hon. Member for Normanton — with whom it is a pleasure to be debating again ; it has been our daily dose for the past three weeks , and he is a worthy opponent — that my party and I are not living in the past . |
| 27 | It was common , even after independence , for schools to be teaching more about the history and geography of the British Isles than about those of Tanzania or East Africa . |
| 28 | I actually think the time is right in the next nine months to be buying a property . |
| 29 | I hope over the next few months to be writing about all these accessories in more detail . |
| 30 | So it might be possible for a 50-year-old with a heart condition to be acting reasonably if he turned down a job involving more stress and daily travel , whereas a 30-year-old executive with no personal problems who rejected the same offer might forfeit his claim to statutory redundancy pay . |