Example sentences of "in [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grounds were that he had used up his grant entitlement in qualifying to be a teacher . |
| 2 | Incidentally , the good art critic should be the reader 's friend in refusing to be impressed by art market prices . |
| 3 | If one is brave enough to try the draft out on critical , expert colleagues , one can be reasonably sure that what emerges at the end will be free of double questions , ambiguities , leading questions , and so on , and the helpful colleagues , in pretending to be informants , will also probably have thought up some difficult-to-classify answers too . |
| 4 | In seeking to be innovative and adventurous , church musicians will need to be careful not to abandon the traditional repertoire or to relegate it to second place . |
| 5 | Nor is there any requirement that evidence must be in writing to be persuasive . |
| 6 | However , in the light of the importance of this decision to the United States ' court , to the parties to the proceedings in that court and in clarifying the law of England , we announced our intention of expressing our full reasons in writing to be delivered at a later date . |
| 7 | With a view toward facilitating the use of electronic bills of lading , the Law Commissions recommended that the Secretary of State be empowered to ‘ make provision by regulations for information given by means other than in writing to be of equivalent force and effect as if it had been given in writing . ’ |
| 8 | Both Kubla and the Abyssinian maid are human creations so in a sense they are God — but Coleridge 's hubris in wanting to be God himself is doomed to failure . |
| 9 | I tried to explore the problems Mrs Singh would have in attempting to be a fully participating parent but the educational psychologist seemed to feel that this was a problem common to many Cedars parents . |
| 10 | In aiming to be more than a mere common market , the Treaty emphasised the principle that the problems of one member state would be the problems of all . |
| 11 | Thirdly , although its intention is to encourage depth it can end up as being rather superficial , and indeed possibly dangerous , in failing to be aware of the pitfalls into which meditation not properly understood can fall . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , sir ? ’ he asked Sharpe , but in a nervous voice which suggested that he expected his temerity in asking to be met with a savage reproof . |
| 13 | On present trends , there will be serious problems in continuing to be able to supply that particular need . |
| 14 | The first two categories represent the initial stages of involvement in learning to be a nurse . |
| 15 | It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility . |
| 16 | In claiming to be ‘ self=begot ’ he is claiming isolation , a refusal to see anything outside his own existence and an unreality which leads to blindness . |
| 17 | The irony is that the skins in trying to be ‘ authentic ’ have ended up reviving an idea of working class culture which is frozen at precisely the point when a ‘ real ’ , ‘ authentic ’ working class identity was being positively eaten away from outside . |
| 18 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 19 | In trying to be all things to all men it became over-complex . ’ |
| 20 | Erm so I think this hearing on the sixteenth of July will be quite useful in trying to be able to i identify that this display unit relates to Newark and not to Mansfield . |
| 21 | She said even less and was , in fact , having the utmost difficulty in trying to be natural with him . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought he showed great courage in agreeing to be in what was after all an undergraduate revue . ’ |
| 23 | Professional interpreters and translators are not alone in needing to be able to display bilingual skills : teachers , businesspeople , administrators , welfare service personnel and trade unionists are going to want such skills , but none more so , perhaps , than those who train language teachers . |