Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were selected from a group of 496 patients with insulin dependent diabetes who attended our clinic regularly , according to the following criteria : they were aged 18–60 , had insulin dependent diabetes mellitus of at least five years ' duration , had a stable body mass index not exceeding 30 kg/m , a glycated haemoglobin concentration of less than 10% , were not hypertensive ( supine blood pressure less than 160/95 mm Hg and no antihypertensive treatment ) , had persistent microalbuminuria — that is , urinary albumin excretion between 30 and 300 mg/24 h at least twice during the previous six months — were not pregnant or wanting to be pregnant , and had no chronic disease other than diabetes . |
| 2 | We were all young — or trying to be young . |
| 3 | Or trying to be funny ? |
| 4 | Portuguese , although appearing to be similar to Spanish on paper , is pronounced completely differently , and so despite the fact that we could communicate in French and Spanish , we could not make ourselves understood in Portuguese other than to ask , ‘ Fala ingles ? — do you speak English ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There 's nothing more depressing than pretending to be jolly in a prison camp . ’ |
| 6 | A human figure was somehow trapped in the plasterwork of that wall at the waist , twisting and scrabbling and thrashing to be free . |
| 7 | In moral education , the young person needs to acquire sufficient knowledge and understanding to be able to make a mature , personal response to Jesus ' invitation in relation to judgements of moral value . |
| 8 | The rationalist approach , by contrast , is concerned with abstraction rather than facts , stressing the need for deductive consistency and tending to be dogmatic and definitive . |
| 9 | Committees are places where you can see people snoozing , picking their noses and pretending to be interested in subjects which are of no interest to them . |
| 10 | She was n't smiling but she was obviously being polite , nodding and asking questions and pretending to be interested in the answers . |
| 11 | He vacillates between describing the connection between creativity and psychosis as ‘ folk-loristic ’ and ‘ clearly exaggerated ’ , and confessing to be puzzled that it has been documented so often . |
| 12 | The political background was likely to be a country clamouring for tougher punishments and wanting to be convinced that crime will be dealt with , while expert reports called for less resort to prison sentencing . |
| 13 | He has the freshness of hope of someone who has yet to fully experience the closed shop of London 's damagingly influential network , yet with the cynicism of one who is ready and waiting to be disillusioned , who knows that to make any impact is n't going to be easy . |
| 14 | Well I had that with this little locum , but er , a South African , did n't feel a thing , mind you a lot of fillings came out thought just had to go back and have it put in again , but she drilled such a small whole that , that , the dentist I saw , another nice young man , cos my dentist had gone , she 's re-filled it , and going to be alright because her fillings out and it was a bit rough , they did n't sort of goes inwards sort of |
| 15 | I like everything to be clean — not particularly tidy-I like the washing and ironing to be nice — nice and clean and nicely ironed . |
| 16 | Emphasis is put on speed range control , mastering emergency procedures and getting to be familiar with use of engine , propeller and the pressurisation . |
| 17 | I could n't face going back to that flat in West Kensington not knowing what to do with my life and having to be pleasant , and not being respected by anyone . |
| 18 | ‘ It ca n't be much fun living next door to Dersingham and having to be grateful to him for having given you a living . |
| 19 | Growing up and learning to be independent can then be happier and healthier . |
| 20 | Pointless samples start every song ; the beat is ridiculously loud and trying to be ravey but is too cluttered and shuffling ; the addition of a backing singer adds little to Peter Hooton 's irritating foghorn voice ; the guitars are still chiming , charmless indie-dance sounds throughout ; they still look like brickies and Peter Hooton still dances like my dad . |
| 21 | Families have the worry of trying to keep things together and trying to be supportive in a tense situation . |
| 22 | ‘ Stop guessing and trying to be clever . ’ |
| 23 | He was calmer , too , and trying to be persuasive . |
| 24 | In Venice she had nothing beyond the one case except for learning Italian , teaching English , sightseeing and trying to be patient with , and understand , her increasingly morose husband . |
| 25 | He was carrying this money around and trying to be flash . |
| 26 | Dressing well is OK , wanting quality is great , but trying to be trendy is out . |
| 27 | There is also the interesting case of the experimental company which ‘ staged ’ ‘ dramatic situations ’ , such as a fierce marital row , in restaurants , while appearing to be ordinary customers . |
| 28 | Our Institute must find a way to defend our interests in the matter of fee income while appearing to be concerned for the public interest as well . |
| 29 | They express their anger by destroying their own lives and thereby hurting others , while seeming to be wide-eyed and innocent . |
| 30 | There is also some evidence that ‘ projects ’ , whilst aspiring to be interdisciplinary , often consist of subject-orientated segments , usually with a strong bias to one subject . |