Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the height of the gale I go down to the pier to see how our local boats are doing , but all the anchors appear to be holding firm . |
| 2 | Aspects of this more sociological and humanistic interpretation of teaching quality will be developed within the chapter through a discussion of teacher cultures , careers and strategies , and their implications for the maintenance and persistence of those ‘ transmission ’ styles of classroom teaching which appear to be incurring official disapproval . |
| 3 | You certainly appear to be experiencing dramatic alterations in the working pattern of your life and the Full Moon on September 5th may well bring about another major change or sizeable upheaval . |
| 4 | And a glance at the supermarket shelves reveals that many manufacturers appear to be ignoring environmental concerns , especially about packaging . |
| 5 | For Deutschland ( literally ‘ Germany ’ ) is the name given , half in envy , half in derision , to that region beyond the Ghetto where successful neighbors appear to be imitating German Jewish standards of living . |
| 6 | Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ . |
| 7 | Not least , Tokyo share prices will fall if Japanese companies , lulled into complacency , appear to be delaying overdue cost-cutting . |
| 8 | Actually , I have been slipping in quite a large amount of social anthropological theory while appearing to be discussing other things , though , at the grand scale level , I still have to justify my claim that a mechanical model of functionalist integration is to be preferred to an organic model . |
| 9 | This can matter if you expect to be working late and the bus stage is some distance away from your place of work . |
| 10 | Fires are reported to be causing huge amounts of damage to Costa Rica 's largest-remaining tracts of forest and nature reserves . |
| 11 | France , Belgium and the USA , Zaïre 's principal aid donors , were said to have stressed their backing for Tshisekedi , and on Dec. 3 the Belgian government was reported to be considering military intervention , following Mobutu 's order to his Prime Minister to form a new government within 48 hours . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems Inc is reported to be readying new 3D graphic accelerators which will replace its impotent low-end GS and GT boards , further ammunition in its campaign against graphics leader Silicon Graphics Inc . |
| 13 | The Duchess of York is reported to be receiving psychiatric help and has therefore fallen victim of the classic dilemma . |
| 14 | By March 8 all of Baghdad was reported to be receiving night-time electricity . |
| 15 | Among the shattered Iraqi forces only the Republican Guard was reported to be standing firm north of the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 16 | Nigerian troops were also reported to be guarding key installations in the capital , Freetown . |
| 17 | LESTER Piggott 's chances of renewing his famous Derby partnership with Vincent O'Brien increased yesterday as Fatherland was reported to be making good progress from injury . |
| 18 | Crawford was reported to be doing excellent work , but as the inter-provincial matches were cancelled as the war worsened , the association 's finances worsened too : the Coach 's Fund was now deeply in debt . |
| 19 | The region is the fastest-growing car market , with Thai car sales increasing by 30 per cent over the period 1988-91. * Indonesia and China are both reported to be planning similar laws to make " cats " obligatory . |
| 20 | It is clear that the lessons of ‘ 92 have not been learned and again Managers would appear to be telling Senior Management what they want to hear , rather than reflecting the real situation . |
| 21 | Consistent with this , the results of recent research on Kuwait oil fires indicate that the smoke did not appear to be rising high enough to reach the stratosphere , where transport may occur over considerable distances with soot particles remaining for months . |
| 22 | The country is the first in Eastern Europe to be investigated , but the organisation expects that Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Romania will also be revealed to be importing toxic waste , albeit in some cases unwittingly . |
| 23 | Polls suggested that the key election issue for voters , however , was the 8,000 or so homeless people estimated to be sleeping rough within the city . |
| 24 | NCR Corp 's total revenues , including sales to other AT&T units , fell 3.9% to $1,480m , but the company is said to be seeing strong orders for its products . |
| 25 | NCR Corp 's total revenues , including sales to other AT&T units , fell 3.9% to $1,480m , but the company is said to be seeing strong orders for its products . |
| 26 | The illustration of such a double logic working at a textual level often comes to seem remarkably close to a deconstructive analysis : in the same way as Derrida or de Man could be said to be deconstructing received readings that have institutional purchase , so the new historicists shift our understanding of institutionalized historical accounts . |
| 27 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 28 | One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) . |
| 29 | Bishop Peter is said to be receiving medical treatment for the stress of recent weeks . |
| 30 | Border emerged from that verbal fracas with a flea in his ear from Australian officials , but their patience is said to be wearing thin . |