Example sentences of "[vb -s] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff in Virgin 's international department grew to accept the fact of opening Music Week to read that Virgin now had offices in fifteen countries ( a slight exaggeration ) , and would shortly open in a further five ( It 's the first we 've heard of it , Richard has to be kidding ! ) . |
| 2 | If we look at the insurance order and the one relating to building societies , it is quite clear there that the auditor has to be acting in his capacity o er as auditor . |
| 3 | I know it could be something to do with regime er banks of course are supervised by the Bank of England at the moment and er the financial services er regime is supervised by the S I B and it could be that is the reason why it is not explicitly stated er that the accountant has to be acting in his capacity as erm as auditor . |
| 4 | Above everything , the view and the aim has to be looking outward rather than inward . |
| 5 | Somebody in Whitehall has to be looking at something else , and it might as well be me . ’ |
| 6 | The main lesson of the discussion of the previous section is that judgment on the validity of consent has to be discriminating . |
| 7 | Beat someone in a race , he said , you 'll feel fantastic , but do n't forget , there has to be losing too . |
| 8 | This contains a collection of tools for the design and development of parallel applications both in Fortran ( a nod towards the scientific community ) and C. The environment has to be running on at least one processor while the rest of the processors in the cluster need parallel client software installed . |
| 9 | He has to be heading for Holland , Germany or France … ’ |
| 10 | That action mainly has to be pressuring the Thames Water Utility Company to er to get its act together , and I must say that er since the last outbreak , they have been working hard at it . |
| 11 | ‘ With scaffolding , there has to be planning lead times , both for erecting and dismantling it , and subsequent restricted access to an area while it is in place . ’ |
| 12 | Life has to be going on on both sides of it , I told her . |
| 13 | But you have to have some level of arousal has to be something pumping round you round your blood your brain has to be working in some way to be able to perform . |
| 14 | When the captain of the Olympic team tells the Sunday Times that he would never run in the 4x400 meters relay because ‘ those guys are not my kind of guys — I do n't like their attitude ’ , then he has to be challenging somebody to say , how dare you say that , to which he 'll reply , how can you stop me ? |
| 15 | Mr Bailey has been very much a front of house man at Hatchards and well known to many of the bookshop 's most distinguished customers , but Dillons is understood to be reorganising the store 's management structure under its new general manager , Roger Katz , and , with the recent appointment of Duncan Goldie-Scot , looks to be putting greater emphasis on direct marketing . |
| 16 | Theory looks to be testing theory . |
| 17 | We 've got inflation that I , it looks to be pressing perhaps to three , three and a half per cent , between four and three and a half per cent . |
| 18 | Univel looks to be backing off its original commitment to port to non-Intel platforms like Sparc . |
| 19 | One small software company that looks to be doing well is Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mantix Systems Ltd , purveyor of the Cascade project management system , which runs on all the top five Unix work station facsimiles . |
| 20 | SEVEN years on , the bleak imagery of Wapping , that archetypal 1980s dispute , looks to be returning to haunt the nineties . |
| 21 | This has reinforced the problems of regional imbalance inherited from the years of deep recession and the more distant past and looks to be heading to a showdown on the green fields of southern England . |
| 22 | But there is no doubt the 39-year-old batsman wants to be calling the shots when the Ashes series winds up at The Oval in August . |
| 23 | ‘ He has not had a good season with injury and must be a bit depressed — he wants to be playing . |
| 24 | He thinks about whether he really wants to be doing this with his life at all . |
| 25 | If it is hand operated somebody needs to be operating it and focusing on agreed events in the classroom . |
| 26 | N C V O needs to be sharing its knowledge , its information and general resources with its members , and also needs to ensure that its work is firmly grounded in the experience and knowledge of the plethora of voluntary organisations and charities , with which contact is maintained on a regular basis . |
| 27 | We 're not saying , as you well know from my representations , we 're not saying that these sites should be allocated for development now either in total or or in part , unless the Inspector feels that there is a shortage of housing land , that he needs to be looking for additional sites . |
| 28 | And she goes , well your brother needs to be swimming more . |
| 29 | However , market forces do not in themselves guarantee the success of the market , and often there needs to be fine-tuning under the exchange 's rules . |
| 30 | Margaret Ramsay explores the problems stress can bring to the workplace and suggests what a company needs to be checking out . |