Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 2 | Recent introductions from America such as N. Charlene Strawn and N. Texas Dawn are proving to be promising and therefore becoming popular . |
| 3 | Open years are proving to be open wounds for Lloyd 's . |
| 4 | Effectively , they are competing to be last . |
| 5 | Barnes , 30 , added : ‘ I knew fairly soon that I was out of the Test match and now I am struggling to be fit for the Taranaki game on Wednesday . |
| 6 | It is , in fact , the case that the men are pretending to be prepared to operate the accident and emergency service . |
| 7 | The other worrying trend is that the companies getting into difficulty are tending to be larger . |
| 8 | Four of the extra 21 community stations are vying to be first on the air . |
| 9 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 10 | ‘ Well if you 're going to be absent when I need you , you must cease taking walks ! ’ |
| 11 | I mean , would you assume Jeremy we 're going to be Corpusized ? |
| 12 | Look , do n't hold out too much hope that you 're going to be successful in this . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd better get on with it if you 're going to be nasty , had n't we ? |
| 14 | But I mean I , if they want to be nasty they 're going to be nasty , in a sense , and , and if they ca n't see a positive way of using something , but they still want to get it in , then the obvious thing to do is to be nasty about it . |
| 15 | You 're going to be disappointed though . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid you 're going to be disappointed , Robyn . |
| 17 | And and er obviously if you 're going to be European properly there has to be a full cooperation in many of the aspects of life How would you answer the these bogey this bogeyman tactic of loss of sovereignty , ? |
| 18 | All of that to me smacks of a lack of appreciation of the need to understand a business thoroughly , where you 're going to be involved in making major decisions . |
| 19 | measure kids at eight and say , Oh right you 're going to be six foot two , you 're going to be five foot ten . |
| 20 | ‘ If you 're going to be annoying I 'll just stay here . ’ |
| 21 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 22 | measure kids at eight and say , Oh right you 're going to be six foot two , you 're going to be five foot ten . |
| 23 | " If you 're going to be one of my young reporters , you 'll need to be curious . |
| 24 | ‘ No , we 're going to be modern lovers , Maria , our respective careers the primary reason for a certain unavoidable number of solitary nights . |
| 25 | He says it 's going to get bigger and bigger and alot of our pasture land is going to be cannabis plantations and they 're going to be legal ones because they 've been granted licences to possess and grow it . |
| 26 | T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness . |
| 27 | you 're talking also about extending the car park at the pub , just down the road , so you 're going to be increasing traffic into that pub . |
| 28 | All , all I 'm saying is that we need to , before we literally start dotting I 's and crossing T's in any literal sense is to sussed out whether that 's gon na , whether they 're going to be receptive to the subject matter . |
| 29 | They 're going to be cheaper for the English market but they 'll have to put on their prices for the export market for those that are going out |
| 30 | ‘ You 're going to be good ? ’ said Lord Henry . |