Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With violence appearing to be on the wane at the moment , he may well be right that the future looks bright . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But what 's one side of the equation going to be ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There is no greater achievement in geographical Research remaining to be done than to lift the veil from before this unpenetrable and mysterious Continent . |
| 10 | You 're an actress ; you 're a writer ; you 're a business woman — what 's the pattern for the future going to be ? |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We treasure confirmation and we fear that any alteration in the pattern might lead to confirmation ceasing to be observed . |
| 16 | More importantly , he felt like a great sponge waiting to be filled . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I sat in my cell expecting to be called out for execution at any moment . |
| 19 | It may well be , of course , that these signs are misleading or illusory , and that the pendulum will once again swing back in favour of ‘ simple faith ’ , with the fruits of historical scholarship continuing to be ignored or suppressed . |
| 20 | CARL PREAN has written to the English Table Tennis Association asking to be omitted from future ranking lists because of the way they are determined . |
| 21 | He wrote to the local Conservative Association asking to be made a member . |
| 22 | A telephone caller to the South African Press Association claiming to be a commander of the Azanian People 's Liberation Army ( APLA ) , the military wing of the radical black nationalist Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , said : ‘ My people carried out the attack . ’ |
| 23 | In 1981 David Hockney scrawled ‘ This is not my work ’ across a drawing purporting to be Hockney 's ‘ Colourful head-dress ’ of 1963 . |
| 24 | The response was a forgery purporting to be a letter from Gregori Zinoviev , president of the Third International in Moscow , to the British Communist Party , urging it to promote revolution and to foment mutiny in the armed forces . |
| 25 | One or two helicopter radios are equipped with a second throttle hold option to allow the practice setting to be retained . |
| 26 | Further facilities should be provided to enable ultra high speed updating to be performed in special cases . |
| 27 | But what 's my first car gon na be ? |
| 28 | Well , some of the racecourse gon na be made like that and it cost a fortune , mind ya . |
| 29 | This system of selection for elevation to the High Court bench and for promotion to the Court of Appeal and House of Lords results in the character of the judiciary seeming to be self-perpetuating . |
| 30 | William Empson , a lifelong and dedicated atheist , returned from the Far East in 1952 expecting to find little more demolition-work on religion needing to be done , at least among the lettered , and was horrified to discover that the devout spirit of T. S. Eliot , in his absence , had spawned a host of converts in the critical world . |