Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 2 | Another insight that has been coming to me consistently is that instead of beseeching God to undertake certain actions or to grant certain mercies or blessings we should state our faith that He is already and always at work in the way that we desire , so that our petition becomes an expansion of our address to Him , a relative clause expressing our conviction of faith that He is already doing what we were about to request Him to do . |
| 3 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 4 | There was a great fear of the fickleness of audiences , an anxiety that the craze would die and that in particular movies would lose their fascination for precisely those sections of society that had been going to them longest . |
| 5 | The vote of no confidence was a final humiliation for a government that had been clinging to office . |