Example sentences of "[noun] to be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blue component of incoming solar radiation is scattered so severely that it appears to our eyes to be coming from the entire sky . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This Memorandum was a formal , public document , evidently intended by the parties to be binding upon them . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Simply transmitting information from input to output may seem a trivial task , but the neuron has two opportunities to be discriminating in performing it . |
| 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 | non-CASE students were twice as likely as their CASE peers to be working in education ; |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I hope over the next few months to be writing about all these accessories in more detail . |
| 11 | A subject as vulnerable within the curriculum as art education needs to be seen by pupils , teachers , headteachers and administrators to be functioning in a healthy state and that judgment is likely to be made in terms derived from educational theory and include the results of assessment procedures and examination performance whether art teachers consent or not . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 14 | ‘ It is a dream to be playing with all these top players . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There is also plenty of water for the shoals to be feeding at the same time in widely separated places . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's true he was in Oxford while I was there , and the schools were no very safe place to be singing about great Llewelyn in his seven-foot grave , or making verses after the manner of Cynddelw . |
| 19 | That 's the proper place to be praying for them who ca n't wait till Sunday . ’ |
| 20 | Now originally the trip was going to take them through many middle eastern countries including Jordan and Israel , er have you had to change your plans at all Andrew , it sounds as though that might not be the ideal place to be going at the moment ? |
| 21 | Where a lexia is indicated by Barthes to be functioning within one of these codes it is making a reference beyond its own immediate confines . |
| 22 | Of all the weeks to be flying into Moon Beach , he thought . |
| 23 | It must be demoralising for workers to be working alongside people who are being paid twice for doing the same job . |
| 24 | During the time in the playground the teachers and head need to be listening to parents and children , spreading irresistible enthusiasm and showing interest in peoples as individuals . |
| 25 | I had not realized just how cold my house might seem , she having no need to be working about the place . |
| 26 | Yes , yes and , and there 's no need to be going through a hoop , at any time , if you continuation constantly , you , you |
| 27 | There is a clear suggestion in Gandhi 's writings that he considered Christians to be lacking in receptiveness . |
| 28 | We believe it is important that we participate fully in all these discussions as we think we have an important contribution to make from the substantial experience that we have , and I do not think you would find it acceptable for JARs to be binding on UK industry without us being in on every stage of their development . |
| 29 | It must have been quite a shock for you all of a sudden to be dealing with millions of pounds on the budget . |
| 30 | What an awful confusion of overwhelming feeling for someone well advanced in years to be coping with . |