Example sentences of "[v-ing] [is] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knack in dowsing is to be in the right frame of mind , not caring too much what answer you get , but at the same time having a clear idea of what you are looking for , otherwise you are opening yourself up to a very wide ‘ waveband ’ and things will get very confused . |
| 2 | Therefore , if the assumption that the speaker is actually cooperating is to be preserved , some informative inference must be made . |
| 3 | Variable speed is almost essential if drilling is to be accurate . |
| 4 | Tourist offices will be open seven days a week ; signposting is to be improved for visitors who do not know an alpha from an omega ; there will be tougher inspection of hotels and boarding houses . |
| 5 | But it is often assumed that so doing is to be following in the footsteps of Marx , when he gave his example of luxury goods production , basing himself on the premise that the sub-department lib produced only goods for capitalist consumption . |
| 6 | Even for the world 's fittest men , riding up them and surviving is like being battered onto your hands and knees . |
| 7 | Johnson , who was looking askance at Miss Beresford 's occupational therapy , said , ‘ In the scale of insignificance , I think knotting is to be reckoned next to mere idleness — ; though I once attempted to learn knotting … but I made no progress . ’ ) |
| 8 | Line and Sandison conclude , ‘ Variations between individual titles , of serials as well as monographs , are likely to be so great that substantial data must be collected for each individual title , perhaps in each library ( certainly in each type of library ) if weeding is to be done on a rational basis ’ . |
| 9 | To some extent a loss of conditioned responding is to be expected purely on the grounds that conditioning tends to be context-specific . |
| 10 | They may be defended simply because in certain circumstances not helping is to be preferred to helping . |
| 11 | Daily grooming is to be recommended for most breeds , and it can be helpful to allow a puppy to become used to the sensation , even though its coat will probably need less attention than that of an adult dog . |
| 12 | If centring is to be used for main headings , then sub-headings may be either centred or blocked . |