Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason appearing to be that menarche is weight-triggered and in particular is turned on by er body weight reaching erm a certain proportion I think it 's about eighteen percent of weight erm erm represented by body fat triggers , triggers menarche . |
| 2 | What will happen in fact is that you 'll have a start date for your system , which was basically when N1 was , and what they will be looking for is that everything from that date forward is complying right so that a job that started before then , they wo n't look for the initial part of that job to comply right as of that date onwards they will look for it to comply . |
| 3 | Well , if what we 're looking for is another time |
| 4 | What I think I 'm looking for is some evidence that the severity of the infrastructure problems to which you refer actually varies from one district to another . |
| 5 | Nevertheless undaunted , since things have moved on a bit since nineteen eighty seven , I suppose what I 'm looking for is some guidance as to the way in which policy I twelve has operated in practice . |
| 6 | ‘ What we are looking for is some sign that the whales are responding . |
| 7 | there 's various things you can talk to them about , and all you do is , all you 're looking for is some key words to motivate them , right eh er to a certain extent you want , you want to assume from the start that they do n't have a clue what they 're doing |
| 8 | So the ones we are looking for are all in deep water . |
| 9 | The men they 're looking for are those with skills saleable on the black economy — plumbers , mechanics , electricians , etc . |
| 10 | Signers find it easier to work if those they are communicating with are all seated in one area . |
| 11 | Her voice was deliberately childish ; she was acting , he realized , pretending to be several years younger than she was . |
| 12 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 13 | no , no , it was just a bound to be a cos you see , let me explain something to you until you gave evidence today , certainly I did n't and maybe others did n't realize in this court room that what were looking at is that one edition of the brochure which may of had several editions , do you understand ? |
| 14 | These kindly present-buying people will be set upon immediately by the old cake-shop lady , who will convince them that what all ‘ the young people ’ are going for are these lovely olive green PVC capes that fit nicely over a rucksack . |
| 15 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 16 | So while school or college-leavers can benefit from a relatively standardised approach , there are others whose training programme needs to be structured closely around their specific backgrounds and individual requirements , otherwise a large element of everyone 's input is going to be little more than an wasteful duplication of effort . |
| 17 | Ergo , every autumn those trees with any sort of seasonal sense at all shed their leaves , which are pretty useless anyway when there 's not going to be much Sun around , and ride out the storms on bare poles . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , touring with Fleetwood Mac seemed like something that was not going to be much of a pleasure for me . |
| 19 | Clearly all this is not going to be much fun , but my aim is egoism and not hedonism . |
| 20 | " I do n't think there 's going to be much to trouble us here , Hazel , " said Bigwig . |
| 21 | up until then I still was n't too worried , but I think then it started to dawn on me that this was n't going to be much fun and I felt a bit scared . |
| 22 | So that 's not going to be much problem . |
| 23 | No , it really was not going to be much fun being married to a politician . |
| 24 | Then er even one percent of nuclear weaponry that er could be used is a danger to world congregation and I fear very much er that unless there is some kind of a proper cast iron guarantee er with the successor to the Soviet Union er there 's going to be much er trouble especially if er there is an ethnic violence er erupting on the borders and again er Boris Yeltsin has said that er , er he is going to want to control er the position on the borders , well he may not get the agreement that he seeks , er one hopes that he will , but he , he may not . |
| 25 | And if you do choose to use teacher-in-role there are going to be many occasions when you 'll have to step out of role to reflect on the work . |
| 26 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
| 27 | Ooh , they are going to be such a treat ! |
| 28 | If we get duplicate last year 's Yellow Pages it 's going to be such a problem . |
| 29 | It 's going to be such a rush , I ca n't tell you . |
| 30 | It was not going to be such an easy day , after all . |