Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'm just checking to see is erm , it appears in , does your Lordship have the ? |
| 2 | What I 'm dying to know is does the tribe remember ? |
| 3 | The biblical relationship of understanding to experience is quite different . |
| 4 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 5 | The sort of relationship you will be seeking to establish is rather like the one you have with good business colleagues . |
| 6 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |
| 7 | Wanting to dare is his opposite number to the underground man 's wanting to want , because whereas wanting to want holds fast to the earlier novel 's metaphysical spareness and abstraction , wanting to dare opens up the whole huge circumstance of the murder itself , the thing that in fact gets done . |
| 8 | The area of conscious energy he is seeking to nourish is one which can engage with the means by which sorrow , lethargy , darkness and ill health are transfigured to joy , energy , light , strength and peace . |
| 9 | learning to see and remembering to look is a life-long process , as the work of any visual artist readily demonstrates . |
| 10 | Erm I think what the N S P C C by by bringing out this particular information to help parents and carers with trick or treat , is wanting to do is is to make sure that the fun that children are wanting to have does n't actually go badly wrong . |
| 11 | What I am seeking to do is to outline a model of language use . |
| 12 | I accept that the unemployment figures this month are disappointing — no one can deny that — but what we are seeking to do is to put people back into permanent jobs , and not temporary jobs . |
| 13 | What I am seeking to do is to go and support Conservative candidates up and down the country and I 'm supporting many of them during this local election campaign . |
| 14 | Hard thinking is indeed required because the kind of information which science is dealing with and seeking to extend is quite literally mind-boggling . |
| 15 | The long-awaited appearance of people looking to move is a sure sign the housing slump is at an end , say the agents . |
| 16 | ‘ The underlying point I am seeking to make is that the debate on which decisions on devolution must be taken has not yet been concluded , ’ Mr Major said . |
| 17 | Refusing to speak is an exercise of the right to silence . |
| 18 | See something else is going to go is n't it ? |
| 19 | The film we 're going to see is Flatliners , and Denice tells us she 's been dying to see it for ages . |
| 20 | It 's worth going to see is n't it ? |
| 21 | Similarly , in Jefferson v Cape Insulation Ltd ( 3 December 1981 ) Farquharson J awarded substantial damages to a woman who knew she must soon die of mesothelioma for her evident distress in being parted from her family : per Farquharson J : I have also to bear in mind … that the major misery this woman is going to sustain is not the pain , serious and terrible as that is , but the prospect which must be continually in her mind of being parted from her family , and particularly her youngest child . |
| 22 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 23 | The way it 's going to work is that we will er that the first thing is to invite applications . |
| 24 | But what you 're actually going to find is that what they 've divorced themselves from is the assistance and the technical help that comes from the County Council , and whilst you may have your teachers trained up to a certain point you therefore have at that particular time you you have them fully trained , and then you say oh well I do n't need any training for the next couple of years so I can step back and save on that area . |
| 25 | Six trades in GPA debt may not sound like a ground swell , but deciding to sell is not easy for secured creditors . |
| 26 | what I was going to suggest is that we should s seek to negotiate with them a turnover rent . |
| 27 | He says in effect it is a new machine — the parts are the latest available , and the original machine they were going to buy is now obsolete . |
| 28 | So for now , the only music these hops are going to hear is from David . |
| 29 | Learning thoroughly the piece which you are going to do is important . |
| 30 | But now I 'm glad , glad and thankful and almost forgiving … because all you 're going to do is play at soldiers twice a week . |