Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise the ‘ thought ’ that the sea is uniformly blue , which is the logical complement of its appearing to be uniformly blue , could not consistently be entertained along with the thought that the sea is not really blue at all . |
| 2 | Energy applications for muon catalysed fusion , Jones ' main research line up to that time , were appearing to be very remote and in August 1988 Jones decided to mount a vigorous effort to pursue the piezonuclear fusion . |
| 3 | Chastened and tearful , I tidied the garden shed and resumed spring work resolving to be more efficient and better organised for the future . |
| 4 | Taken together , people 's answers to these three questions indicate that they judge HP to be the most costly common form of credit , and that they judge credit cards , store accounts and check trading to be relatively cheap — with the important qualification that ( presumably taking quality of goods into account ) mail order and check trading , though not expensive , are often thought likely to give poor value for money . |
| 5 | The police say the man they 're looking for is around five feet 10 inches tall and in his late twenties . |
| 6 | What you 're looking for is about six feet of water , four or five yards off the end of your rod . |
| 7 | However , as table 5.2 and figure 5.2 show , the other very important component of the trend is that more people than before are living to be very old , into the high eighties and nineties , and this is to some degree due to changing mortality trends at later ages . |
| 8 | A little owl , pretending to be just another stone on a heap of stones ; we could so easily have missed him if he had n't swivelled his head to peer in our direction at just the right moment . |
| 9 | Pretending to be deeply interested was rather a strain . |
| 10 | They also accuse Christians of pretending to be morally superior and of taking great delight in their virtue . |
| 11 | It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time . |
| 12 | Young H from Wallasey was a pretty major exception to this rule — he did the drop in of doom off the extension to flat bottom hipper , slashed about did mass ollies onto the extension , laybacks , wore an agnostic Front tee , and generally skated like he 'd been around since the sevs and was a dwarf just pretending to be under 16 . |
| 13 | At one point , early on , this kid was counting out money and saying something like , you have n't got a choice there and if you do n't like it you can shop around , when we said , in a voice I 'd never heard before , a voice that no longer pretended to be nice , a voice that expressed all the effort of pretending to be so nice for so long . |
| 14 | ‘ I think you want exactly the same things she does , but you hide behind the pillars of your ice palace , pretending to be so unapproachable . |
| 15 | Pretending to be so butter-wouldn't-melt , and then to slide this in — the sharp kick on the ankle in passing . |
| 16 | But I do n't like the way you 're pretending to be so fond of me , ’ she told him , her hazel eyes flashing and her arms akimbo , ‘ and I do n't like the way we 're deceiving your mother . ’ |
| 17 | And he leapt to the other side of the road pretending to be terribly frightened , to such an extent that he thoroughly convinced himself that he was ! |
| 18 | It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time . |
| 19 | If our body is becoming too warm — through sunbathing , for example — then the air is a ‘ pleasant breeze' ; if it is tending to be rather cool — seated in wintertime — then the air is a ‘ draught ’ . |
| 20 | Iris Murdoch has spoken of novels as tending to be either crystalline or journalistic ; and the journalistic , which she practises , sounds like a free-wheeling and ever-hospitable realism : ‘ a large , shapeless , quasi-documentary object … telling with pale conventional characters some straightforward story enlivened with empirical facts . ’ |
| 21 | To take an obvious example , if banks lend only to their current account customers , then non-customers ( tending to be demographically distinct from customers in various ways ) will have to use other credit sources . |
| 22 | Some breeds show a much greater desire to enter water than others , with retrievers tending to be especially keen . |
| 23 | They are much more risky , tending to be highly volatile — rising quickly but often falling faster , indeed sometimes trading is suspended for a few days so you are locked in until trading resumes usually at a much lower level . |
| 24 | Whites had contacted the police more than Blacks , and Asians less than both , Whites tending to be more satisfied with the result . |
| 25 | Kayaks such as the Europe and Mirage are good examples here , tending to be about four metres long . |
| 26 | To Orcs and Goblins size is power and by any reckoning Grom was looking to be very powerful indeed . |
| 27 | In presenting learning tasks and information to pupils a flexible organisation is required and children need training to be as independent as possible when working without direct supervision . |
| 28 | I am not going to be vulgarly inquisitive . |
| 29 | Although the Education Act 1979 removed the duty of LEAs to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines ( a duty imposed by Labour 's Education Act 1976 ) , the policy was not going to be easily reversible . |
| 30 | Once on the platform , if you are lucky enough to get there , you will be met , eventually , with logic-free announcements to explain why you are going to be ridiculously late for work or that important appointment . |