Example sentences of "be [noun] [prep] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there will be quite a rainforest theme to May 7th , which is where we 're sort of hoping to launch everything , and start selling tickets for the events , things like that . |
| 2 | I mean the bas if you 're sort of wanting to take any holiday or time |
| 3 | Right , Harold 's been sort of trying to have a look at it all week long , but he 's , he has n't really got time . |
| 4 | Because very often on courses we find that people have been sort of nominated to go on courses , and quite honestly they do n't actually want to be there and they 're looking at their watch and as soon as they can get away that , that 's better . |
| 5 | Yes , yes , he , he sticks this out , but other people are sort of beginning to challenge him and say that , you know this is n't necessarily the case . |
| 6 | They 've seen lots of fashions come and go , so they 're suspicious of microcomputers in many ways and the changes are happening so fast , I think many are sort of waiting to see what 's going to happen before they commit themselves . |
| 7 | But British Telecom points out there are disadvantages to switching to cable , not least a change of telephone number . |
| 8 | But British Telecom points out there are disadvantages to switching to cable , not least a change of telephone number . |
| 9 | It has to be admitted that there are problems with trying to state what data are without appearing to stipulate their character in advance . |
| 10 | There may be some truth in the claim that there are problems in seeking to postulate ‘ a transcendental ideal of which the historical actualities are a succession of mundane and therefore imperfect , compromised manifestations ’ , and that the term religion is not something ‘ that can be formulated and externalized into an observable pattern theoretically abstractible from the persons who live it ’ . |
| 11 | There are ways of trying to manipulate even the sortes Biblicae , but he had meticulously and demonstratively avoided them . |
| 12 | erm right I 'm new to the area and I 'm sort of wanting to move into the Garden City |
| 13 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 14 | You seem to be sort of trying to encourage a guilt complex by this , this idea put forward by the conservatives , which is not the case , people should not feel guilty in trying to do the benefit that they can to benefit the people of Wiltshire . |
| 15 | I do n't know , it 's difficult to see that one can make erm , you know , a clear connection if one says well , you know , if the undergraduate is n't sick should we sort of put up with them being particularly rowdy or generally rather offensive , and I think that there could perceivably be problems with attempting to identify , you know , a disciplinary effect offence rather , as lying within the victims . |
| 16 | While he realises that there will always be problems in trying to teach anyone a new subject , Reas admits that it was sad to see a keen student being teased by his less keen classmates , but felt hopeful that perhaps a seed had been planted that one day would grow . |
| 17 | As we have indicated , there can be problems in attempting to extract a single institution or rule from a national industrial relations system in order to compare it with what happens elsewhere since |
| 18 | There were advantages in failing to define your terms . |
| 19 | There we were sort of trying to find out how many men . |
| 20 | I mean holiday prices were , were sort of scheduled to go up this year compared to last year 's , probably sort of eight , nine , ten per cent . |
| 21 | I mean you 've co I mean a long , you know not that long ago , you were sort of tending to put it off a lot . |
| 22 | Industry 's motivation is to make a profit , and a company 's ‘ geographical behaviour ’ is part of trying to attain that aim : changing location could be a way of staying profitable . |
| 23 | This is part of learning to balance successfully with the trunk well controlled , and without allowing associated reactions to distort the shoulder girdle or leg . |
| 24 | It 's function in helping to remove toxins from the bloodstream is useful in most illnesses . |
| 25 | And this bit here at the top is kind of starting to go . |
| 26 | ( WES ) Tonight we look at one small company that 's played it 's part in helping to reduce the dole queues . |
| 27 | Yeah , I know but it 's just when she 's sort of having to sit down all the time . |
| 28 | You see what I mean … they 're a happy bunch … there 's lot of racing to keep them going as well … |
| 29 | He is cross at having to come here when his time with Enid is so short . |
| 30 | All I had to do was stand around pretending to pull on one end of a tug-of war rope while a load of peers pulled on the other , as Jerry stood by attracting the tabloids ' photographers . |