Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the South Koreans proving to be serious challengers , the Japanese obviously do not want to contend with another team for Asian supremacy . |
| 2 | The Policyholder may claim a constructive total loss when the subject matter of insurance is reasonably abandoned to the Insurer on the account of its actual total loss appearing to be unavoidable or because it could not be preserved from such actual total loss without an expenditure that would exceed its value when recovered/repaired . |
| 3 | With violence appearing to be on the wane at the moment , he may well be right that the future looks bright . |
| 4 | Many of the rest have four legs , and bark or moo or even lie in swamps pretending to be logs . |
| 5 | Like they 'd crawl across the floor in restaurants pretending to be a couple of dogs . |
| 6 | She could feel Mrs Orton wanting to be noticed , desiring to be liked , preventing these things . |
| 7 | When she wanted not to reply to something , she would lift her ravishing upper lip over her opened teeth in a way that put him alarmingly in mind of a horse wanting to be bridled . |
| 8 | If you are a solicitor or an overseas lawyer wanting to be admitted to the English Bar ; if you are seeking some reduction of the normal pupillage requirements or certain other exemptions from the regulations ; if you are applying to become an employed pupil-master — you must apply to the Joint Regulations Committee ( JRC ) . |
| 9 | Etzioni formulates a hypothesis about organizations seeking to be effective : that they will shift their compliance structure towards one in which there is greater congruence between power and involvement , either by changing the nature of the power employed ( e.g. from sanctions to ‘ leadership ’ ) or the participants involved ( e.g. by recruitment methods ) ( Etzioni 1961 ) . |
| 10 | The world is not altogether reformed by cheap tours , nor is the inherent vulgarity of the British Philistine going to be eradicated by sending him with a through ticket and a bundle of hotel coupons to Egypt and the Holy Land … |
| 11 | In the days of the Bestiary and the Emblem Book , animal pictures had shown the world of Aesop 's fables ; butterflies giving us a symbol of resurrection , and also of feckless enjoyment , in pictures waiting to be decoded . |
| 12 | The offer was backdated to April , and there were now arrears waiting to be picked up varying from £653 to £12,090 ; she hoped they would consider that it was a reasonable offer . |
| 13 | However , to assert that there is a very great deal remaining to be said about the mutual effects of semantics and syntax may seem a bold claim , perhaps even a surprising one , given the number of those who have worked on both areas and the many publications with titles suggesting that the two have been linked inside their covers . |
| 14 | But what 's one side of the equation going to be ? |
| 15 | Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap . |
| 16 | There is no greater achievement in geographical Research remaining to be done than to lift the veil from before this unpenetrable and mysterious Continent . |
| 17 | You 're an actress ; you 're a writer ; you 're a business woman — what 's the pattern for the future going to be ? |
| 18 | Pupils are empty vessels waiting to be filled from the teacher 's stock of expert knowledge . |
| 19 | Children … are not vessels waiting to be filled up with knowledge , but rather active seekers of solutions to problems . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll go and get you some wood , ’ Otley volunteered as he disappeared from view , leaving me with a duster in my hand and a country seat waiting to be polished . |
| 21 | Most of those who saw the General in the weeks after his resignation did not come away with the impression that he was on the edge of his seat waiting to be asked back . |
| 22 | It 's a fairly basic question — what colour is your car going to be , because that 's one thing that people always like to know when watching Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon after the race is over . |
| 23 | He 's made us really meet real people , you know what I mean , people with handicapped children , and to me I find them more real than some of my friends that live in another world , fantasising about the future , you know , ‘ What 's the kids going to be when they grow up ? ’ |
| 24 | Although we are dot going to be hobbling a horse by three legs and tethering it all day out in the sun , we will need a tolerant horse if we wish it to do boring or repetitious work . |
| 25 | We treasure confirmation and we fear that any alteration in the pattern might lead to confirmation ceasing to be observed . |
| 26 | More importantly , he felt like a great sponge waiting to be filled . |
| 27 | During one , she was told there were 55 emergencies waiting to be dealt with . |
| 28 | The first essentials for any cloud flying in large cumulus are that the glider must be properly equipped for serious flying , and the pilot must be competent and experienced enough at instrument flying to be able to regain control from any attitude without having to use the airbrakes . |
| 29 | I sat in my cell expecting to be called out for execution at any moment . |
| 30 | For the appellant Mr. Lester submits that it should now be appropriate for the courts to look at Hansard in order to ascertain the intention of the legislators as expressed in the proceedings on the Bill which has then been enacted in the statutory words requiring to be construed . |