Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Many of the rest have four legs , and bark or moo or even lie in swamps pretending to be logs . |
| 3 | Like they 'd crawl across the floor in restaurants pretending to be a couple of dogs . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Pupils are empty vessels waiting to be filled from the teacher 's stock of expert knowledge . |
| 8 | Children … are not vessels waiting to be filled up with knowledge , but rather active seekers of solutions to problems . |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | During one , she was told there were 55 emergencies waiting to be dealt with . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This sum is inadequate and , even with rigorous prioritisation , will lead to some patients and clients having to be supported in the community when their needs could be met more adequately in residential care . |
| 13 | Microdiffusion is compatible with deviance theorists ' emphasis on deviant lifestyles having to be learnt ( see Becker 1963 ) . |
| 14 | Nationalized industries created additional difficulties ; volume planning often led to overcapacity and excessive output , with huge losses having to be written off . |
| 15 | Proposals for a maximum carcase weight of 380kg , which was more than likely to be introduced this July , could mean heavier animals having to be marketed earlier before the second qualifying period . |
| 16 | Erm we 're hearing reports that parts of schools having to be closed or th threatened to be closed because they 're not sufficiently hygienic for pupils or teachers to work in . |
| 17 | A disadvantage is the absence of any convenient alternative route of return , steps having to be retraced exactly unless a kind friend can be persuaded to take his car to the Hill Inn at Chapel-le-Dale and wait there . |
| 18 | This stream passes down a wooded ravine with no access , steps having to be retraced to the Old Ing road . |
| 19 | Despite most eventers having to be clipped fairly frequently , Ambassador has a very fine coat , as do most entires . |
| 20 | This is Josh Gifford exclusive another one of these trainers learning to be a journalist . |
| 21 | The legend that Crabb was taken back to Russia alive continued to circulate for several years and indeed still does , helped by a number of books claiming to be based on secret information from the East . |
| 22 | This leads to considerable evasion , with drivers claiming to be independent when they are in fact employees . |
| 23 | Tricks like this are n't just misleading to customers , they 're also unfair on rival traders trying to be honest . |
| 24 | It found that little use is made of arbitration procedures , although there 's no evidence that consumers are so satisfied that they have no disputes needing to be judged independently . |
| 25 | He raised his head and smiled to her again in a curious way , his eyes seeming to be laughing at her . |
| 26 | Moreover , the average number of graphs per annual report ( of those companies using graphs ) was 7.5 , with financial graphs tending to be prominently displayed near the front of the report . |
| 27 | All the disabled professionals could see advantages relating to being disabled in the work context . |
| 28 | To quote Laura Mitchel — ‘ We spend our lives wanting to be mature , well , now we are so let's make the most of it . |
| 29 | But in the potato channel are lumps of earth and a few stones masquerading as vegetable , and in the stone channel a few potatoes pretending to be mineral . |
| 30 | While there is a steady stream of visitors looking to be fed , the volunteers are also needing a steady stream of food , especially soup . |