Example sentences of "[v-ing] into be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room he was looking into was stripped of all furniture and decoration ; if anybody had occupied this house since Sartori 's time — and it surely had n't stood empty for two hundred years — they had gone , taking every trace of their presence . |
| 2 | Nothing particularly wrong with that but that does show where they are coming from when they are looking into being with as I call it the so called traffic problems of St Albans . |
| 3 | That there will be fierce opposition to such changes is fairly certain , and there will be vociferant arguments against them , and whilst these must be listened to , they must be allowed to have influence only if they can help in the process of bringing into being the new philosophy or religion . |
| 4 | The mounting communal disorder , on a scale unprecedented during British rule , the apparent implacability of the uncharming and uncharmable Jinnah , the tacit acceptance by this stage on the part of most of the Congress leadership of the ultimate partition of the Punjab and Bengal , made the possibility of bringing into being a genuinely united independent India appear slender indeed . |
| 5 | The fruit of his labours for the RIIA was a volume of nearly 2,000 pages ( An African Survey , 1938 ) which immediately became the basis of intensive discussion at the Colonial Office and which secured for Hailey , until 1943 , an unrivalled position of influence in the Office 's debate on the future of Africa , which he himself had been instrumental in bringing into being . |
| 6 | After an extended process of negotiation Gorbachev was able to announce on 24 July that the nine republics had reached agreement on a new treaty of this kind , bringing into being a ‘ Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics ’ in place of the overcentralised association of the recent past . |
| 7 | A better characterization of the meaning of the bare infinitive structure in these uses is that it evokes " helping " as direct or active involvement in the bringing into being of the action denoted by the infinitive . |
| 8 | ‘ The flat we are moving into is quite cold ; a rise of 17.5 per cent will be quite a bit . ’ |
| 9 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 10 | Certainly Earth needs its Sun and moon , and neither could exist without the Milky Way first coming into being , and so on . |
| 11 | The Convention set a transitional period of 10 years , with an industrial free trade area coming into being by 1970 . |
| 12 | At that period of the nineteenth century when the discipline of anthropology was coming into being , material culture studies represented the very core of this emergent social science ( e.g. Haddon 1895 ; Tylor 1881 ) . |
| 13 | He was simply lucky , perhaps , that the land which he sold had been allocated for residential purposes in a period when a new suburban city was coming into being . |
| 14 | Just as the word ‘ scientist ’ was being coined in the 1830s to express a new feeling of community , specialized societies and journals were coming into being for astronomers , entomologists , chemists and other groups . |
| 15 | The fact that we are here again , just as keen to see the King 's Cross project coming into being , demonstrates clearly that the two schemes are and always have been separate . |
| 16 | Does the right hon. Gentleman mercifully recognise that none of this will come to pass because , within days of this misguided , ideological order — introduced at the behest of the arch-agent of prejudice sitting beside him , the Minister of State — coming into being , there will be a change of government and none of it will happen ? |
| 17 | In contrast to make , which focusses essentially on the notion of producing an effect , force explicitly evokes the means used to bring about the realization of this effect , namely force , and so refers to something prior to the effect 's coming into being . |
| 18 | What we have dreams of , what we have hardly dared to hope , but towards which we were straining all our will and all our strength , was coming into being over there . " |
| 19 | Conservatives shared the Kirkpatrick view of foreign affairs ; it was the Soviet Union 's will to conquest which had shaped the entire world , plucking into being the entire defensive structure behind which we lived . |