Example sentences of "to be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might get at least some credit if they were seen to be laying better long-term foundations for the economy . |
| 2 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 3 | Werewolf and I were numbers three and four in the queue and the Sergeant had to tap his watch a couple of times as Werewolf seemed to be requiring more help than the rest of us from Private Boyd in getting his belt on . |
| 4 | By March 5 troops loyal to Saddam Hussein appeared to be achieving some success against the rebels . |
| 5 | ‘ You ought to be meeting more boys your own age , not letches like Bas and the twins . |
| 6 | We 're going to be meeting more regularly in the next er few month and we want to know what |
| 7 | ‘ Did you have any idea what the story was she was meant to be meeting this person in connection with ? ’ |
| 8 | A ‘ devolved ’ school was seen to be meeting local needs more quickly . |
| 9 | In fact , as early as October 1 , when your ruler Neptune is challenged by Jupiter in Cancer , you will realise that money is really only half the battle or problem you 're facing this month — because someone appears to be breaking all the rules , if not breaking your heart . |
| 10 | Although overdue , two elements of the bill can properly claim to be breaking new ground . |
| 11 | To write about a place I did not know might seem to be breaking one of the most quoted warnings to the novice author : " Write about what you know " . |
| 12 | The venture , which will involve investment of £8m , is believed to be receiving regional development grants worth up to 36 per cent of the total investment . |
| 13 | Though the available data on the contribution record of workers from different socio-economic groups is inadequate in several ways , it can be justifiably claimed that members of the lower socio-economic groups are more likely than members of the higher socio-economic groups to be among the non-qualifiers and , in the years when they existed , to be receiving lower-earnings-related benefits . |
| 14 | The health of children in care was found by the House of Commons Social Services Committee under the chairmanship of Renée Short , MP , to be receiving minimal attention . |
| 15 | One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) . |
| 16 | A list of the kadis in office in Anadolu in early Muharram 928/early December 1521 , forty years after the death of Mehmed II , shows the kadi of Bursa to be receiving 300 akce , while according to Gokbilgin , the kadi of Edirne was likewise receiving an allowance of only 300 akce a day at the beginning of the tenth/sixteenth century . |
| 17 | By March 8 all of Baghdad was reported to be receiving night-time electricity . |
| 18 | Bishop Peter is said to be receiving medical treatment for the stress of recent weeks . |
| 19 | The Duchess of York is reported to be receiving psychiatric help and has therefore fallen victim of the classic dilemma . |
| 20 | The illustration of such a double logic working at a textual level often comes to seem remarkably close to a deconstructive analysis : in the same way as Derrida or de Man could be said to be deconstructing received readings that have institutional purchase , so the new historicists shift our understanding of institutionalized historical accounts . |
| 21 | ‘ All the polling organisations , like our own private polling , demonstrate a very great firmness of support in those who say thus far that they are going to be voting Labour , and softness in Conservative support . ’ |
| 22 | In my union branch , as in many others , I expect the best activists to be voting Labour . |
| 23 | Criminals are n't too bothered about the er problems they cause victims in the commission for their crime , but er as a general rule er they do draw a line somewhere , but I think to er rob a lady who is er presumably grieving over the loss of a relative , at the graveside , has got to be plumbing some new depth of er depravity and er I 'll expect the erm vast majority of the citizens of Banbury will think similarly . |
| 24 | These Paul I 'm supposed to be writing all . |
| 25 | NO WONDER Squidgy is said to be writing more letters these days . |
| 26 | In just over an hour 's time up to twenty million people are expected to be watching one television programme — the final episode of Inspector Morse . |
| 27 | Lee Doherty summed it up afterwards when he said : ‘ We 'll settle for the 3–1 win , but you would n't want to be watching that kind of football every week . |
| 28 | This is an incredible area to be getting involved in . |
| 29 | ‘ And besides , ’ she added briskly , ‘ this would be a bad time for me to be getting involved with anything serious . |
| 30 | Predictably , you seem to be getting all the flak for the Bill Davis/Alan Coren years of stagnation and complacency that led to the Punch you inherited a while back . |