Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with Virgin , he complained , the laid-back Sixties seediness and everybody wanting to be on first-name terms , all seemed like a ploy to lull an honest Situationist into a false sense of security . |
| 2 | With a view toward facilitating the use of electronic bills of lading , the Law Commissions recommended that the Secretary of State be empowered to ‘ make provision by regulations for information given by means other than in writing to be of equivalent force and effect as if it had been given in writing . ’ |
| 3 | We 'll just have a talk about the Bicester side , are you going to be at full strength ? |
| 4 | The task of relieving avoidable distress and creating a caring and heartening environment in residential and nursing homes is going to be of increasing importance in determining the quality of the last year of people 's lives . |
| 5 | No , but the point is that to in all our cases to provide a community resource which is going to be of genuine use to artists and the general public , erm one has to take care that the standards of work and the standards of community facilities are as high as they possibly can be if you want to attract maximum usage , and what we will be trying to do in circumstances like this encourage as many people to come up to the Gardener at weekends during the summer and have as enjoyable a time as possible . |
| 6 | An index can also help you establish whether the book is going to be of future use . |
| 7 | In one matter only had she determined to have her own way : she was going to be on good terms with the neighbours for the sake of her sanity . |
| 8 | They say that the police have not got the resources — but this game is going to be behind closed doors . ’ |
| 9 | It 's going to be like fucking University Challenge sorting out some of them , through . ’ |
| 10 | It 's going to be like fucking University Challenge sorting out some of them , through . ’ |
| 11 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 12 | You are going to be in great danger until you have positive news of Clarion Call . |
| 13 | If an act is starting out and the manager immediately takes 25 per cent of their money , the band are almost certainly going to be in financial difficulties . |
| 14 | we are going to be in awful difficulty , we 've got an education P A G , and I know Gill 's involved in that , we do have a problem . |
| 15 | Luke Calder was getting under her skin , and unless she acted quickly she was going to be in serious trouble . |
| 16 | Other countries are now asking Burma for help : our great neighbour India particularly is going to be in sore need . |
| 17 | ‘ If you are going to be in senior job you are going to put a lot of time in so you give up your social life a bit perhaps . |
| 18 | What will be on their mind is first of all the Prison Authorities are going to isolate them , they 're going to be in solitary confinement for a very long time — six months , maybe a year , that 's been the pattern — they 're going to lose a lot of remission , but they also know they 're going to face criminal charges . |
| 19 | If you 're getting married this July , you 're going to be in adventurous mode when it comes to the honeymoon ! |
| 20 | If it is n't , somebody is going to be in big trouble … yes … |
| 21 | Because if you stop agricultural production , you 're going to be in big trouble . |
| 22 | Well , er first of all , it 's a smaller er Authority , er the er meetings of the Authority area are of course er going to be in public , just as er always , and er I think probably the key er advantage is going to be the new emphasis that we 'll be able to place on buying health care services . |
| 23 | And we , by our very definition were always , I suppose , going to be in inverted commas , the most expensive . |
| 24 | As a result of her in fidelity and disloyalty to her country , the child was cursed from birth , rapidly growing to be over six-foot long with a snake 's tail and bat wings , and the head and mane of a black stallion . |
| 25 | They do n't want Amanda Jane suffering to be in vain . |
| 26 | The Attlee government baulked at local government reform by boundary revision , the Local Government Boundary Commission which it had set up , proving to be of short-lived duration . |
| 27 | If propositions purporting to be about fictional things are to be accepted as meaningful , then it is only on condition that they can be paraphrased into propositions about non-fictional things ; for example , into propositions about persons who are thinking , alleging , claiming , etc. something fictional . |
| 28 | The love poetry of Saadi and Hafiz though seeming to be about physical love was really about transcendent love . |