Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of becoming a mother has to be understood in a personal and social context which takes account of predisposing factors such as poor housing , an unsupportive marriage , lack of employment and financial difficulties . |
| 2 | Dodman was driving a van found to be loaded with the stolen property . |
| 3 | Becoming an actor has to be thought of in realistic terms right from the beginning and all possible problems do need to be faced . |
| 4 | But it would be anachronistic to think of Western Europe around c .700 as homogeneous Western , Christian , Latin culture , shared among nations with any definite sense of forming a community aspiring to be ‘ Western Christendom ’ . |
| 5 | Memory for parking a car appears to be generally very good at least in allowing the driver to specify its current location several hours later . |
| 6 | The probability of correctly recalling a junction appears to be related to many of the same things as subjective risk — traffic seen , time spent at the junction , objective and estimated risk . |
| 7 | The story of Mr Lock 's mind-bending trip was told at Bristol Family and Youth Court yesterday , when the 16-year-old girl , who can not be named , denied unlawfully administering a poison alleged to be LSD with intent to injure , aggrieve or annoy on May 13 . |
| 8 | EASTERN Electricity is sponsoring a team hoping to be the first Britons to conquer the world 's second highest mountain and survive . |
| 9 | The EC is producing a regulation intended to be a management tool for the evaluation and improvement of environmental performance with the provision of relevant information to the public . |
| 10 | ‘ Stealing a car seems to be automatically serious enough to merit a custodial sentence , ’ he says . |
| 11 | When he found out , he contacted the Diocese of London 's lawyers , who helped to prepare the paperwork : getting a licence seemed to be just a formality — in modern times it was practically unheard-of for a faculty to be refused . |
| 12 | The original duty owed was the basic one of not intentionally or recklessly injuring a trespasser known to be present ( Addie v Dumbreck Collieries [ 1929 ] AC 358 ) . |
| 13 | And he and his wife together are saying a women deserves to be raped . |
| 14 | She knows that even something that seems so simple as giving a wash has to be thought about and done in a sensitive way . |
| 15 | Having a constitution seems to be a matter of self-respect : no state is properly dressed without . |
| 16 | CHILDREN 'S favourite Orville the Duck is appearing at rave parties — plugging a song claimed to be about the killer drug Ecstasy . |
| 17 | In spasticity , all of the muscles controlling a limb tend to be contracted at the same time , so that the limb locks into position . |
| 18 | Each industry , in consultation with its sponsor department , has determined its own discount rate for appraisal purposes , choosing a rate believed to be consistent with earning a 5 per cent required rate of return ( RRR ) on its investment programme as a whole . |
| 19 | This case illustrates the sense of hopelessness that may develop in the unemployed , especially when finding a job appears to be in almost impossible task , and how this may create other problems , particularly when a major life event occurs , such as the break-up of an important relationship . |
| 20 | One of the benefits of making an acquisition has to be that duplicated positions can be eliminated , and NCR Corp has had to tell a total of 284 employees at two Teradata and two NCR locations in Southern California that they are surplus to requirements . |