Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Policyholder may claim a constructive total loss when the subject matter of insurance is reasonably abandoned to the Insurer on the account of its actual total loss appearing to be unavoidable or because it could not be preserved from such actual total loss without an expenditure that would exceed its value when recovered/repaired . |
| 2 | The first essentials for any cloud flying in large cumulus are that the glider must be properly equipped for serious flying , and the pilot must be competent and experienced enough at instrument flying to be able to regain control from any attitude without having to use the airbrakes . |
| 3 | This system of selection for elevation to the High Court bench and for promotion to the Court of Appeal and House of Lords results in the character of the judiciary seeming to be self-perpetuating . |
| 4 | However , if a double page spread ( DPS ) is 75 per cent more expensive than a single page , or a 40-second TV spot is 33 per cent more expensive than a 30-second spot , is the resulting ad going to be 75 per cent or 33 per cent more effective ? |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just a small part of a team , so you need n't get your knickers in a twist trying to be polite ! ’ she snapped . |
| 6 | Now , it 's mot going to be easy , not least because it will require the politicians to be more cooperative and less combative . |
| 7 | ‘ So what 's the excuse going to be this time , darling ? |
| 8 | ( 5 ) This section shall cease to apply to any premises on such day as may be specified in the notice , if the holder of the licence or the club , as the case may be , gives notice of the disapplication of the section from the premises in accordance with subsection ) below : Provided that this section shall cease to apply to premises for which a public house or a hotel licence is held , or to the premises of a club , at any time on the licensing board ceasing to be satisfied as mentioned in the proviso to subsection ( 1 ) above . |
| 9 | ( 5 ) This section shall cease to apply to any premises on such day as may be specified in the notice if the holder of the licence or the club , as the case may be , gives notice of the disapplication of the section from the premises in accordance with subsection ( 6 ) below : Provided that this section shall cease to apply to premises for which a public house or a hotel licence is held , or to the premises of a club , at any time on the licensing board ceasing to be satisfied as mentioned in the proviso to subsection ( 1 ) above . |
| 10 | ( 5 ) This section shall cease to apply to premises on such day as may be specified in the notice if the holder of the licence gives notice of the disapplication of the section from the premises in accordance with subsection ( 6 ) below : Provided that this section shall cease to apply to premises at any time on the licensing board ceasing to be satisfied as mentioned in paragraph ( i ) of the proviso to subsection ( 1 ) above . |
| 11 | An urban regeneration scheme may possibly require some form of grant or other incentive financing to be viable , when capital and operating costs are taken into account . |
| 12 | Nor does the RUC consider these aspects of community policing to be scarce resources , thus there is no restriction on their deployment to those limited number of areas where there are particular problems , as often happens in Great Britain ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 10 ) . |
| 13 | It is a concentrated , fleeting moment of ambiguity and irony ( irony and ambiguity tending to be intrinsic to transgressive reinscription and alien to humanist transgression ) . |
| 14 | I was only thinking really of erm particularly extreme situations erm and I would expect it to be used for example in normal training or anything like that and er certainly all the studies show that the normal thrust , full thrust that was available was sufficient to meet the threat and this extra capability really was a a sort of an extra that was added in early on and really was n't felt on any of the combat modelling to be necessary . |
| 15 | ‘ Lady Agnes told me , laughing at a virgin pretending to be pregnant ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Lady Agnes , what did you mean by referring to Queen Yolande as a virgin pretending to be pregnant ? ’ |
| 17 | A signature purporting to be that of Mrs. Steed appears opposite . |
| 18 | It 's no use trying to be sad |
| 19 | Thérèse pretending to be asleep . |
| 20 | If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings . |
| 21 | This was shown by DNA fingerprinting to be indistinguishable from M paratuberculosis , which causes enteritis in animals . |
| 22 | Is the church going to be self-preserving or self-sacrificing ? |
| 23 | Erm but now another man erm wishing to exist or perhaps , but not a man wishing to be other erm approached them er and when he found us , for we were not outside the all |
| 24 | In any building claiming to be classical ( and in many others , of course ) the key principle is one of symmetry ; using the word in its narrow modern sense not of harmony but of parts arranged equally about a line or plane . |
| 25 | In which other election claiming to be democratic would we make voting choices without canvassing the views of the candidates ? |
| 26 | In order for strategic planning and decision making to be effective , a different set of values needs to be held by senior officials . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Perception of extension is subject to relativities too , the same thing appearing to be different shapes according to our view . |
| 29 | ‘ She came over to America to promote her book pretending to be royal and it is all rubbish . |
| 30 | Those of you ( few , I hope ) who answer these questions in the wrong way , the stupid Philistine way , might as well close this book now and go walking about the world pretending to be real . |