Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [be] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | JEWKES reveals BELVILLE disguised as Nan , pretending to be asleep in a chair . ] |
| 2 | ‘ There 's nothing more depressing than pretending to be jolly in a prison camp . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ These men are torn between yearning to be close to a woman and having a deep fear of hostility towards them , ’ says psychologist Dr Susan Forward . |
| 4 | Fears that the Cockney comic was going to be involved in a bust-up sent officers racing to the 400-year-old luxury mansion he converted into a dream lovenest for Tracie . |
| 5 | If the EC Commission goes ahead with a planned registration scheme , the agricultural community is going to be involved in a massive numbering operation — the introduction of a sort of International Standard Cow Number . |
| 6 | Well what it is , it 's going to be available as a video cassette with the soundtrack |
| 7 | It is a thumping big read , but at £17.99 in hardcover it is obviously going to be good as a £4.99 paperback . |
| 8 | The instructor may have been wondering if the height was going to be sufficient for a normal approach even though the student had already cut out the base leg to make a 180° turn on to finals . |
| 9 | A wrist that 's going to be painful for a while , but it will heal . |
| 10 | There 's actually a very different difficult problem with sexual harassment , which is that erm there are occasions when it looks as if it 's going to be difficult for a college not to go ahead , even when the victim has withdrawn her or his complaint . |
| 11 | It is always going to be difficult with a lot of conflicting pressures . ’ |
| 12 | Soon I , too , was very distressed , but I knew that it was going to be dead within a few hours , and I was helpless . |
| 13 | The party 's popular front image , by contrast , captured the imagination of countless intellectuals wishing to be involved in a broad cultural movement committed to the struggle against fascism . |
| 14 | It is often argued that if a child learned how to recode unfamiliar letter strings — printed words not previously encountered — into a phonological form , this would permit reading to be parasitic on an already established ability to access the semantics of a word from its phonology . |
| 15 | Families have the worry of trying to keep things together and trying to be supportive in a tense situation . |