Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | This leads to considerable evasion , with drivers claiming to be independent when they are in fact employees . |
| 4 | Tricks like this are n't just misleading to customers , they 're also unfair on rival traders trying to be honest . |
| 5 | To quote Laura Mitchel — ‘ We spend our lives wanting to be mature , well , now we are so let's make the most of it . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Two lads turned up at Goodison for trials claiming to be Dutch internationals from Maastricht Hertz Van Rental and Leasowe Van Hire . |
| 10 | All those women singers trying to be sexy in their videos , it 's bullshit . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But on the whole , I feel I 've spent too many years trying to be other people . |
| 15 | In a statement he said that ‘ regardless of legal liability ’ the health authorities wanted to offer compensation without the families having to be involved in further legal action . |
| 16 | In an undercover police operation in London a shop was set up purportedly to buy and sell jewellery commercially ; it was staffed solely by undercover officers purporting to be shady jewellers willing to buy stolen property . |
| 17 | An example is the Vaccine Damage Tribunals established under s.4 of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 to review questions of the extent and cause of disablement by persons claiming to be entitled to payments under the Act as a result of disabilities arising from vaccination damage . |
| 18 | By an originating summons dated 15 April 1992 the plaintiff , the Deposit Protection Board , sought relief against the defendants , Mrs. Varsha Dalia and Barclays Bank Plc. , namely ( 1 ) that it might be determined whether a person entitled by reason of assignment of part of a deposit ( as defined by section 5(1) of the Banking Act 1987 ) was a depositor holding a protected deposit entitled to a compensation payment from the plaintiff pursuant to section 58(1) of the Banking Act 1987 ; ( 2 ) that an order be made that the first defendant should represent that class of persons claiming to be entitled to compensation payments from the plaintiff pursuant to section 58(1) of the Banking Act 1987 by reason of assignment of part of a deposit held with Bank of Credit and Commerce International S.A. ; and ( 3 ) that an order be made that the second defendant should represent that class of persons being contributory institutions within the meaning of section 52(1) of the Banking Act 1987 . |
| 19 | Initial consultations with Third World partners have been generally positive , with partners wishing to be involved in the design of the course . |
| 20 | The party 's popular front image , by contrast , captured the imagination of countless intellectuals wishing to be involved in a broad cultural movement committed to the struggle against fascism . |
| 21 | We found that the pattern of boys ' attitudes to the police were consistent with those of adults , Blacks and Whites tending to be similar , and Asians slightly more favourable than the others . |
| 22 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
| 23 | If , however , the suspect piece turned out to be an aluminium bronze ( as was recently the case with some coins purporting to be Anglo-Saxon ) , then one could reject it straight away because aluminium , and thus aluminium bronze , was not known before the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Other examples are the Roman coinage under Vespasian ( see p. 15 ) , and particularly the many coins purporting to be English pennies of the tenth and eleventh centuries . |
| 25 | and I mean there has n't been , I think , that kind of critical investigation of the claims that have been made by successive leaderships in Russia and China and other states claiming to be communist |
| 26 | It was decided to press ahead with Saturday 's show despite access to the main field being badly cut up by exhibitors ' vehicles having to be tractor- towed into position . |
| 27 | Virginia had crept up to her several times trying to be friendly , but each time the house repelled her advances , do n't you dare to come near me with those nasty creepy little fingers she smiled , preventing the new young tendrils finding a hold on her walls . |
| 28 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 29 | Thames 's equally well-meaning programme , Adoption — All for the Sake of the Children ( ITV ) , fell down because it was not about real people , only about actors pretending to be real people . |
| 30 | It 's plump actors pretending to be working class , when their fathers are neuro-surgeons . |