Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] to be [adj] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This leads to considerable evasion , with drivers claiming to be independent when they are in fact employees . |
| 6 | Tricks like this are n't just misleading to customers , they 're also unfair on rival traders trying to be honest . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | To quote Laura Mitchel — ‘ We spend our lives wanting to be mature , well , now we are so let's make the most of it . |
| 9 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 10 | Flexibility is bound to be required to take account , for example , of a sudden increase in a particular type of work , of a complex transaction of such importance that the partners dealing with it must be on constant standby , of parents wishing to be free during school holidays . |
| 11 | I 've known many British historians who have an adequate reading knowledge of German , erm who go into the archives expecting to be able to read the documents , and what they do n't realise in advance is that the handwriting is actually Gothic script . |
| 12 | Two lads turned up at Goodison for trials claiming to be Dutch internationals from Maastricht Hertz Van Rental and Leasowe Van Hire . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm just a small part of a team , so you need n't get your knickers in a twist trying to be polite ! ’ she snapped . |
| 14 | All those women singers trying to be sexy in their videos , it 's bullshit . |
| 15 | But I would say to each of your listeners I sure you know people who find a tranquility , a centredness , a source of strength and confidence in their religious faith , they are the representatives of what religion can do , not the Ayatollahs , and not the fanatics , and not the people on television , but the people who spend their lives trying to be good and helpful , and one day they 'll look around and realise that happiness has snuck in the back door when they were n't even looking for it . |
| 16 | Now , it 's mot going to be easy , not least because it will require the politicians to be more cooperative and less combative . |
| 17 | ( 5 ) This section shall cease to apply to any premises on such day as may be specified in the notice , if the holder of the licence or the club , as the case may be , gives notice of the disapplication of the section from the premises in accordance with subsection ) below : Provided that this section shall cease to apply to premises for which a public house or a hotel licence is held , or to the premises of a club , at any time on the licensing board ceasing to be satisfied as mentioned in the proviso to subsection ( 1 ) above . |
| 18 | ( 5 ) This section shall cease to apply to any premises on such day as may be specified in the notice if the holder of the licence or the club , as the case may be , gives notice of the disapplication of the section from the premises in accordance with subsection ( 6 ) below : Provided that this section shall cease to apply to premises for which a public house or a hotel licence is held , or to the premises of a club , at any time on the licensing board ceasing to be satisfied as mentioned in the proviso to subsection ( 1 ) above . |
| 19 | ( 5 ) This section shall cease to apply to premises on such day as may be specified in the notice if the holder of the licence gives notice of the disapplication of the section from the premises in accordance with subsection ( 6 ) below : Provided that this section shall cease to apply to premises at any time on the licensing board ceasing to be satisfied as mentioned in paragraph ( i ) of the proviso to subsection ( 1 ) above . |
| 20 | An urban regeneration scheme may possibly require some form of grant or other incentive financing to be viable , when capital and operating costs are taken into account . |
| 21 | Nor does the RUC consider these aspects of community policing to be scarce resources , thus there is no restriction on their deployment to those limited number of areas where there are particular problems , as often happens in Great Britain ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 10 ) . |
| 22 | It is a concentrated , fleeting moment of ambiguity and irony ( irony and ambiguity tending to be intrinsic to transgressive reinscription and alien to humanist transgression ) . |
| 23 | In the hippy dementia of the dog room I catch the screaming antics of The Moonflowers aspiring to be weird simply for weird 's sake . |
| 24 | Or consider rhetorical questions like ( 36 ) : ( 36 ) Was Mussolini going to be moderate ? which if the participants believe that whatever Mussolini was , he was not moderate , is likely to convey ( 37 ) : ( 37 ) Mussolini was definitely not going to be moderate Here , by overtly violating the sincerity of a question , once again an implicature is generated by a flouting of the maxim of Quality . |
| 25 | I was only thinking really of erm particularly extreme situations erm and I would expect it to be used for example in normal training or anything like that and er certainly all the studies show that the normal thrust , full thrust that was available was sufficient to meet the threat and this extra capability really was a a sort of an extra that was added in early on and really was n't felt on any of the combat modelling to be necessary . |
| 26 | This year the flags we have seen flown as ensigns by yachts purporting to be British have been as imaginative and various as they have been illegal . |
| 27 | But on the whole , I feel I 've spent too many years trying to be other people . |
| 28 | It was Mr trying to be funny and |
| 29 | ‘ Lady Agnes told me , laughing at a virgin pretending to be pregnant ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Lady Agnes , what did you mean by referring to Queen Yolande as a virgin pretending to be pregnant ? ’ |