Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solti 's reading veers between being becalmed and frenzied , with little feeling for an overview of the vast score . |
| 2 | and she 'll just think about it , and the more she thinks about being depressed the more she 'll get depressed in thinking |
| 3 | ‘ Who cares about being nice ? ’ she asked . |
| 4 | He 's good , but looks like being temperamental . |
| 5 | The main local interest looks like being New Marske-based Tom Farrell 's open racer In The Secret , which clocked a useful 36.98 secs winning a three-dog 580 metres trial by 6 7 lengths at Sunderland , finishing very strongly . |
| 6 | Oh well it looks like being frosty Friday does n't it ? |
| 7 | The main threat to the southern raider looks like being Irish import Black Parachute . |
| 8 | Another Williams-bred youngster , Pond Curlew , which receives start of eight metres , looks like being favourite for the Easter Handicap after clocking the fastest time of 27.44 , though he takes on Florida Bill , unbeaten in three rounds of the competition , also off eight metres , tonight . |
| 9 | Star pup The danger looks like being Middlesbrough-based I 'm Sloppy , which was third in the 631 open . |
| 10 | Calvert 's Ruffside Rock , which has also impressed at Sunderland , has been drawn in trap one for the March Puppy Stakes , over 460 metres , and the danger looks like being Shawfield-based wind runner Cocoa Powder , out of trap four . |
| 11 | Since , as has throughout been common ground , the defendants were not at liberty to divulge to others information acquired as agents for Mr. Brant , the defendants could not tell the plaintiff the true position without breaching their duty to Mr. Brant . |
| 12 | It has throughout been common ground that the benefit in this case to each taxpayer is that ‘ his son is allowed to participate in all the facilities afforded by the school to boys who are educated there . ’ |
| 13 | CONFIDENCE STARTS WITH BEING POSITIVE |
| 14 | Much of the expertise of a museum curator or an archaeologist lies in being able to offer a reasonably accurate identification of an object just on the basis of looking at it and handling it . |
| 15 | New US legislation , attempting to avert another such environmental catastrophe , has introduced a requirement for tankers operating in US waters to be double-skinned in future . |
| 16 | Right , and there 's various pros and cons to be aware of . |
| 17 | Severe urgency was defined as an urgent need to defecate which has to be relieved in less than one minute to avoid incontinence . |
| 18 | The idea is that quarks come in three colors — red , green , and blue — ; but that any isolated bound state , such as a hadron , has to be colorless , either a combination of red , green , and blue like the proton , or a mixture of red and antired , green and antigreen , and blue and antiblue , like the pi meson . |
| 19 | The teacher 's conduct has to be obscene or criminal before sterner measures are employed . |
| 20 | A cess pool has to be airtight , and installed where it can be readily emptied by pumps and motor tankers from time to time . |
| 21 | There has to be dishonest intention and a deliberate course of conduct intended to create the impression with a view to inducing the acquisition , disposal or underwriting of , or the exercise of rights in relation to , investments . |
| 22 | No Steven has to be deaf with ears like that . |
| 23 | Security has to be total or useless . ’ |
| 24 | He does not really expect her to love him , and when she does it has to be total . |
| 25 | Can now , can we actually move on a bit because , that has been very valuable what you said , but in fairness to Mr Maxwell it also has to be said does n't it that up until he stole these assets er this process of throwing organisations , peoples monies into a spin dryer and pulling them out of different sort of sequences was something he regularly did and we 've had witnesses to say how well he did manage the funds and how they grew , whether when they should sell stock and when they should n't sell stock and so on . |
| 26 | Secondly , the past and current benefit to the employer must not merely be substantial or even valuable ; it has to be outstanding if compensation is to be awarded . |
| 27 | Everything has to be correct , ’ he commented . |
| 28 | ‘ In such cases the documentation has to be correct from the word go and if Mr Grainger puts it all down in writing his account will be used as the basis for our inquiries . ’ |
| 29 | It has to be arbitrary . |
| 30 | We believe that the level is about right , although in a sense it always has to be arbitrary . |