Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open years are proving to be open wounds for Lloyd 's . |
| 2 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 3 | For this Christmas , the battery-operated WWF Wrestlers are proving to be the best-sellers . |
| 4 | How interesting these Oscars are proving to be . |
| 5 | Recent introductions from America such as N. Charlene Strawn and N. Texas Dawn are proving to be promising and therefore becoming popular . |
| 6 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 7 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 8 | Effectively , they are competing to be last . |
| 9 | Barnes , 30 , added : ‘ I knew fairly soon that I was out of the Test match and now I am struggling to be fit for the Taranaki game on Wednesday . |
| 10 | SERAFIN : If by ‘ silly ’ you mean ‘ simple-minded ’ , then take heart , because simple-minded is what we are struggling to be . |
| 11 | They have been there over years and many of the established patterns of reaction are demanding to be looked at . |
| 12 | Some had in fact been praying to be ‘ rescued ’ ! |
| 13 | This may be excellent fodder for people who are aspiring to be the next winner of Mastermind . |
| 14 | I work with a number of young people who are aspiring to be writers and we have put together an anthology of Black women writing about their experiences from inside South Africa . |
| 15 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |
| 16 | She 'd been wanting to be my best friend for ages . |
| 17 | It is , in fact , the case that the men are pretending to be prepared to operate the accident and emergency service . |
| 18 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 19 | However , as table 5.2 and figure 5.2 show , the other very important component of the trend is that more people than before are living to be very old , into the high eighties and nineties , and this is to some degree due to changing mortality trends at later ages . |
| 20 | This instrument of control , however , is the least effective of the three because , in contrast to the good old days , parts of the press are refusing to be browbeaten . |
| 21 | The other worrying trend is that the companies getting into difficulty are tending to be larger . |
| 22 | Certainly that one is totally overpowered by the background and these ones are tending to be just a little bit . |
| 23 | It may be that friends and relatives who are less affected by the death of the family member , could give some special attention to the children who are wanting to be comforted and to be told what is going on . |
| 24 | Four of the extra 21 community stations are vying to be first on the air . |
| 25 | Projects from Middlesbrough , Stockton and Redcar are vying to be included among the 20 towns and cities which will receive Government cash for improvement schemes . |
| 26 | We are settled on the southern shore , called Belmont for the amenity of the situation , within a stout stockade I am causing to be built . |
| 27 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't been pretending to be in love with you this weekend . |
| 29 | ‘ I am interested in journalism , ’ said Thomas , who is staying with the Kilcran family in Dale Road , Darlington , ‘ but I am training to be a teacher . |
| 30 | ‘ You mean you 're itching to be rid of me so you can get off this island ! ’ |