Example sentences of "to [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I switched on the television prior to using is as the computer screen to write this article , a lady was interviewing the country 's strongest man . |
| 2 | What he most looked forward to seeing were others of his kind with whom he could fly and from whom he would learn things . |
| 3 | I had to remind myself sternly that Thornfield was not my permanent home , and that the person I was so looking forward to seeing was perhaps not even thinking of me . |
| 4 | The physical child response to stroking is extended to the psychological equivalent in terms of praise and reward . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's happening to surfing is happening to everything , ’ Terry said , ‘ that 's progress for you . ’ |
| 6 | It was the worst raid so far but Maureen who had not yet returned to driving was with her mother in the shelter and Anne , who finished work at ten o'clock , had reached home , dodging from shelter to shelter . |
| 7 | Even though the epidermis appears to be stretched taut over the surface of a structure such as a growing limb bud , its response to wounding is to close over the lesion , rather than to gape more widely . |
| 8 | Recourse to stabbing is at least potentially more open to abuse . |
| 9 | The correct way for approaching the actus reus in relation to cheating was laid down in Doukas and approved in Cooke : ( a ) was there an article for use in cheating ? ( b ) did the accused deceive another ? ( c ) did the accused obtain by that deception ? ( d ) was there dishonesty ? ( e ) was " the obtaining … , wholly or partially , by virtue of the deception " ? |
| 10 | My attitude to ageing is that it 's inevitable so there 's very little you can do about it . |
| 11 | Decline due to ageing is nearly always imperceptible , noted only when comparing present ability with that of many years past . |
| 12 | As stated earlier , subjective responses to ageing are also shaped by social and material resources . |
| 13 | A public revenue approach to costing was to be adopted , which meant focusing on the cost of services received , and excluding the cost of housing , personal living expenses and informal care from the main calculations . |
| 14 | Chairman Coun Dave Punshon said Mr Cooney 's commitment to firefighting was second to none . |
| 15 | A gradual but firm approach to weaning is the most successful . |
| 16 | AS WE mentioned last month , applying the ‘ original ’ etch-resist directly to the copper foil prior to etching is fine for quicker one-off printed circuit boards ( p.c.b.s ) , but there is the drawback of actually have to destroy the etch-resist after etching , in order to reveal the copper tracks underneath . |
| 17 | The decline in leaf area presented due to wilting is very clear . |
| 18 | The cephalic phase response to feeding is one of the best recognised examples of modulation of the gut secretory function by the central nervous system . |
| 19 | That the choleretic response to feeding is abolished by vagotomy suggests that this secretory event may possibly be mediated by a long vago-vagal reflex ( similar to the increased production of gastric acid secondary to gastric distension ) , or that it may be a true cephalic phase event . |
| 20 | If the choleretic response to feeding is mediated by a vago-bagal reflex , then it is likely that it relays in the solitary tract nucleus in the brainstem , which is the first relay nucleus for all afferent bisceral sensation . |
| 21 | This provision stems logically from the new section 6 , on which I commented earlier , and the necessary adaptation of the reference to appropriating is made by inserting a reference to obtaining property . |
| 22 | Answering a question is a reaction to having been asked a question . |
| 23 | He attributed his lack of injury to having been measured with the highest body fat content during the winter testing ! |
| 24 | In an age when sin and madness were so strongly associated , the only reason for confessing to having been insane would be that complete recovery showed divine forgiveness of whatever sin had caused the madness in the first place ; and this is the reason advanced by the two mediaeval authors who admit to having been mad , Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve . |
| 25 | In an age when sin and madness were so strongly associated , the only reason for confessing to having been insane would be that complete recovery showed divine forgiveness of whatever sin had caused the madness in the first place ; and this is the reason advanced by the two mediaeval authors who admit to having been mad , Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve . |
| 26 | Colin resents the notion that he does n't carry a big punch and this could be a chance for him to try to prove otherwise as Palacio admits to having been knocked out four times in his 58-fight career . |
| 27 | At his trial in September 1989 , Suh Kyung-won testified to having been ill-treated during his interrogation and said that he had been forced to make false statements under duress . |
| 28 | She professes to having been a little sad when it all ended , but stressed that all involved are still friends — to the point , indeed , where Trevor Hutchinson is now a lynchpin of her own band . |
| 29 | They are the anxieties of our times , born of the idea that the individual must in one way or another ( any damned way , as a matter of fact , even confessing to having been abused as a child ) express his uniqueness and fulfil his potential . |
| 30 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |