Example sentences of "it be [verb] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's bound to be going into spasm or something |
| 2 | It 's going to be thinking about science . |
| 3 | But this 'll tell you if you 're veering that way , so you can go , ooh , and perhaps spend one day a week on that , just to get into it , and the rest of it 's going to be managing my practice . |
| 4 | Mm it 's going to be raining . |
| 5 | He 's done so much good around here — I know it 's going to be inspiring working for him . ’ |
| 6 | But , I thought that now that the M S has acquired that bus and it 's going to be standing around doing nothing for most of the time and it 's a twenty nine seater bus . |
| 7 | but you do n't know just how long it 's going to be going on . |
| 8 | That 's quite likely where it 's going to be going wrong . |
| 9 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 10 | Hello my name 's Winsy insy spider climb up the spout , down came the rain and washed Winsy out , when the sun came out it dried up the rain , insy , winsy spider climbed up again thank you , oh thank you , oh thank you , I know , thank you , well , today , at midday today it 's going to be tipping down with rain and winsy , winsy , winsy , spider will fall down the rain , |
| 11 | The tape recorder is now running , I hope that it 's going to be recording , but let us not erm , be inhibited as a result of that . |
| 12 | Right , this time it 's going to be carrying on from , where did we get to X |
| 13 | It 's thought to be preparing to market an Intel Corp 80486 ( or alike ) -based accelerator board that runs in an Sbus slot which would greatly improve the performance of personal computer applications . |
| 14 | It is said to be thinking of appointing a special envoy to the interim government set up in February in the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |
| 15 | It is said to be selling well . |
| 16 | The United States thus finds itself in a no-win situation : the more it is seen to be intervening against him , the more it is likely to reinforce his position . |
| 17 | The Archive 's location in a university which has a reputation for excellence in social research ensures it is perceived to be upholding high standards . |
| 18 | It is precisely because it is thought to be binding that it can serve as an expression of identification . |
| 19 | It is thought to be exploring how insurance risks compare and fit in with the other financial risks it already manages routinely for customers . |
| 20 | In theory , logging was suspended by law in January 1990 , but it is reported to be continuing apace . |
| 21 | Female choice has only properly been tested for in the case of one such character , the long tail of a species of widow bird , and it was confirmed to be operating . |
| 22 | Up to the 1970s it was presumed to be proceeding towards the beech high forest which ecologists believed was the stable climax on limestone . |
| 23 | In 1986 it employed about 11,500 workers , and a year later , when its affairs were the subject of wide comment in the press , it was said to be employing 13,000 , or even 14,000 , workers . |
| 24 | The decision to dynamite the rock , using five tons of explosives , was taken last week after it was found to be moving at an accelerated rate . |
| 25 | Measures during September to enforce the trade embargo at sea included ( i ) US action on Sept. 4 to stop the Iraqi freighter Zanubia , carrying tea from Sri Lanka , which was re-routed without the cargo being impounded ; ( ii ) the searching of the tanker Faur in the Gulf of Oman on Sept. 14 ; ( iii ) warning shots fired on Sept. 27 by a US naval vessel prior to the boarding by US Marines of the Iraqi tanker Tadmur , which was allowed to proceed after it was verified that it carried no cargo ; and ( iv ) the first UK action , on Sept. 30 , when HMS Jupiter stopped an Indian merchant vessel , Akebar , off Qatar , on its return from delivering humanitarian food supplies , but allowed it to proceed after it was found to be carrying refugees and was declared free of contraband . |
| 26 | At its home port , it was found to be carrying a large consignment of drugs . |
| 27 | One unit lost over £50 , 000 when the scheme was introduced , because it was found to be doing much less teaching than had been estimated . |
| 28 | He had difficulty ‘ sounding ’ because of this , and it was thought to be affecting his progress in learning to read . |
| 29 | The criticisms it was encountering had to do , for instance , with the composition of the Council ( whether or not there was adequate representation of polytechnic teachers or local authorities ) , or with the slow rate at which it was held to be devolving authority to the institutions . |
| 30 | It was starting to be unnerving , this ability of his to judge her with such uncanny accuracy ! |