Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solti 's reading veers between being becalmed and frenzied , with little feeling for an overview of the vast score . |
| 2 | Take Frau Grossman , all she thinks about is finery and food , whereas Dr Grossman has his spectacles always in a book . |
| 3 | All she thinks about is clothes , shoes , hairstyles . |
| 4 | All she thinks about is being happy — and that means having the things she thinks will make her happy . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But these days — and heaven knows why ! — all she thinks about is Jeff ! ’ |
| 6 | and she 'll just think about it , and the more she thinks about being depressed the more she 'll get depressed in thinking |
| 7 | But the only thing any manager really worries about is getting his players to turn up to train and play . ’ |
| 8 | What ‘ the state ’ stands for is a number of particular institutions which , together , constitute its reality , and which interact as parts of what may be called the state system . |
| 9 | ‘ And what it stands for is definitely not this . ’ |
| 10 | All he cares about are women and booze . |
| 11 | Apart from himself , the only people he really cares about are his listeners ; the radio relationship is the only sort of genuine love-affair he 's ever known . |
| 12 | What TODAY cares about is not any single politician or any party . |
| 13 | All he cares about is getting the answer right . |
| 14 | ‘ Who cares about being nice ? ’ she asked . |
| 15 | But the verdict it looks for is always the judgement of truth , the verdict handed down by reality . |
| 16 | Despite agreement among party leaders that the elections should be held in ‘ a mild climate , ’ it looks like being a divisive contest . |
| 17 | The earliest that the whole — more or less — of the industry will be able to take advantage of its single market now looks like being mid-1994 . |
| 18 | The summit looks like being a success . |
| 19 | The Vung Tau Cargo , snagged in a Vietnamese fisherman 's nets , looks like being a repeat of the astonishing success of the Nanking Cargo — 150,000 pieces of mid-18th-century porcelain plus 126 gold bars — salvaged by an ex-Barnardo 's boy , Michael Hatcher , and auctioned in 1986 . |
| 20 | But at the moment the Masters looks like being a very short tournament for me . |
| 21 | NICK FALDO , with what appears to be a perfectly-timed run into his very best form , looks like being the man to beat in the Masters , which begins at Augusta National today . |
| 22 | The firms ' budget looks like being 12 or 13 times bigger than that of its European imitators . |
| 23 | ‘ In fact this year looks like being a lot better . ’ |
| 24 | THIS IS ELECTION YEAR AND IT LOOKS LIKE BEING A DAMN CLOSE RUN THING |
| 25 | Provided you do n't mix friendships with finance — especially on the 4th when the Sun makes a decisive aspect to your ruler Saturn — then this looks like being a month when you are fussed , feted and fawned over . |
| 26 | SATURN remains in the area of ambitions and career matters for most of the year , so this looks like being a time when hard work will pay off later rather than sooner . |
| 27 | Agassi has managed to sign up a licensing deal with Tecmagik and this looks like being the long-awaited definitive tennis game on Sega systems . |
| 28 | There has been a revolution in the marketing of computer products and the winner looks like being the consumer . |
| 29 | STILL on a charity tip ( well , someone 's got ta be ) , the Boogie Night on Dec 8 looks like being another worthwhile event , this time supporting the homeless . |
| 30 | ‘ All in all , it looks like being a tough battle . |