Example sentences of "be [pers pn] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you into going to a pub tonight ? |
| 2 | ‘ How are you at playing a part ? ’ |
| 3 | Crime they say does n't pay , well you may have your own views on that but certainly across the breadth of variety of criminal activity we might agree that crime almost always hurt someone , more or less , we have a system designed to cope with the effects of crime and to deter future criminals , but it does n't seem to be making crime a thing of the past , so how good are we at dealing with crime , tonight 's hundred women have a broad range of experience as victims , law women , perpetrators , police and others , we 'll be hearing their views on the system and how it might be changed and asking why are we all so fascinated by fictional crime from Cell Block H to Agatha Christie . |
| 4 | where are we with costing and theatres on the nominal charge ? |
| 5 | Er yeah but why , yeah okay I did n't mean that actually was he asking too much , I mean are we interpreting the peasants as having done , are we over interpreting what the peasants have done , basically ? |
| 6 | So how close are we to seeing dual-fuel powerplants in tractors ? |
| 7 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 8 | It 'll be me outside looking for star . |
| 9 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 10 | This means in practical terms that friends and club are OK , and are to be believed , while ‘ outsiders ’ of all kinds are not , nor are they worth contacting to check information . |
| 11 | So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ? |
| 12 | So resolute are they at keeping hold of one another that even if you pick up the mother , her babies will still hang on to her in a wriggling furry rope . |
| 13 | Are they in mourning for the first-class service ? |
| 14 | ‘ Were they on speaking terms ? ’ |
| 15 | I thought myself , there 's her mother wandering about , is she off galavanting with Dave , where the hell she gone . |
| 16 | Competency you 're looking at your receptionist now , because you 've identified the key tasks you might say well what 's the standard on these things , how good is she at passing on messages etcetera ? |
| 17 | ANYBODY owning or restoring a vintage aircraft , be it to flying or static status should know of W A Parker ( Aircraft Spares ) Ltd at Benfleet in Essex . |
| 18 | ‘ What 's he like doing ? ’ |
| 19 | So there we are , that 's the woofers tonight at the Oxford Stadium , and that 's it from Talking Sport this Saturday . |
| 20 | And what 's it like knowing your dear daddy died in a shoot-out ? |
| 21 | Ah er what 's it like living with you then ? |
| 22 | Reporter asks : What 's it like seeing the house again ? |
| 23 | But enough of such doom and gloom ; what 's it like working with Guitarist Number One Diamond Geezer , Edwyn Collins ? |
| 24 | Erm wh wh what what 's it like working on Flats , I mean , have you worked anywhere similar ? |
| 25 | Appraisal is therefore not about identifying individuals for financial reward or promotion nor is it about penalising ‘ poor ’ performance — they are separate management processes . |
| 26 | Neither is it about performing actions slowly . |
| 27 | What is it about paying tax that brings out such juvenile spitefulness even among the strenuously respectable ? |
| 28 | It 's called the Tripyer Shield and it 's a local amateur thing Eccles and District and to win it it 's like winning the F A Cup and this G M B team that we started we lost about three or four matches and we started losing the players , so when you do n't lock the doors and you 'd end up with about seven players and you 'd think is it worth bothering ? |
| 29 | Is it worth sacrificing the long-term future of Britain 's biggest state-owned industry to make political capital in the run-up to the next election ? |
| 30 | ‘ Is it worth seeing the rest , do you suppose ? ’ |