Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That 's my ambition to be roaring in against the Aussies next year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps you regard the main function of talk to be giving information directly and honestly . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lastly as the heater requires the fan to be blowing air from the n/s wing is the fan actually working ? |
| 9 | New research by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has shown ozone depletion to be occurring twice as fast as previously thought . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's what Mr Hjerson has the effrontery to be claiming has happened . ’ |
| 13 | Some of us have work to be getting on with . ’ |
| 14 | Left materials plus work to be getting on with next week . |
| 15 | That may still be prudent if your fish are in the top-quality bracket , but otherwise it may pay in the long run to be looking at 12″ Koi upwards . |
| 16 | And she acknowledged that part of her longing to be bustling about was to try and snap him out of his trance so that he could tell her where her sister was . |
| 17 | I did n't trust the old girl to be telling the truth — though I think she is . |
| 18 | She was dressed so smartly I thought : ‘ Silly girl to be wearing Yves St Laurent . |
| 19 | You can tell she 's in a good mood from the number of bitchy remarks : from Glenys Kinnock 's dress sense ( ‘ Silly girl to be wearing Yves Saint Laurent ’ ) to the election campaign ( ‘ It 's been just like an American election : no ideas ’ ) to John Major 's now certain victory ( ‘ It 's conserved everything we 've stood for ’ — we , doubtless , in the sense of I ) . |
| 20 | Funny sort of thing for a girl to be doing . |
| 21 | Which is a pity to be giving away . |
| 22 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 23 | For the exercise to be doing you good , you should get a little out of breath . |
| 24 | ‘ It is a dream to be playing with all these top players . |
| 25 | We would n't expect the County Council to be proceeding to approval of the plan , but merely an approval in principle or an approval of the concept . |
| 26 | I 'm sure there must be things that your institution would like your council to be doing but which your council is n't doing . |
| 27 | Our level of ambition has risen with the success of ‘ Thumping Good Read ’ , and we want this campaign to be trendsetting and generate the kind of sales that would prompt publishers to alter their practices . ’ |
| 28 | A cairn marks the crossroads , and although the outrageously boggy path will cover you in peat to the armpits , you may hug yourself in delight to be walking in empty country again , as the cries of ‘ Look , Mam . |
| 29 | Estabrook said , glancing towards the kite-fliers , who were both too distant and too involved in their sport to be eavesdropping . |
| 30 | The most favourable attitudes were found amongst those subordinates who perceived their boss to be exercising the consultative style . |