Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's bad enough having a seriously ill child without all having to be split up . |
| 2 | erm erm Brian calls us experts at the beginning of the programme erm everyone listening knows we ca n't all be experts of course on all these things , we 're just sort of amateurishly trying to be sensible on these questions . |
| 3 | From then on , she trips and twirls like a prima donna at an infant ballet class , gurgles and squeaks to the point of practically begging to be mercy killed , and generally flaunts a dodgy child sexuality that is neither funny nor subversive , but is stupid and dangerous . |
| 4 | There 's no ‘ real ’ picture under there waiting to be revealed , if that 's what you mean . ’ |
| 5 | There is no ‘ real ’ picture under there waiting to be revealed . |
| 6 | Star Trek VI considers such questions without even trying to be convincing . |
| 7 | It is frustrating on occasions when a side puts together an exciting movement of forwards interpassing to be concluded by a piece of driving play which eventually comes to a halt and the opposition get the put-in . |
| 8 | Rita has hopes of eventually studying to be a nurse . |
| 9 | Unlike many jobs , housework can often be done in a very short space of time without actually failing to be done at all . |
| 10 | There is a rival school , though , whose followers pursue successful careers by simply pretending to be themselves ( Roger Moore and Stephen Fry spring to mind ) . |