Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But each time I saw you I could feel myself weakening — wanting to be close to you . ’ |
| 3 | Wanting to be near to something |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Almost all experimental studies have shown in vivo training to be superior to the use of tape recorded instructions . |
| 6 | ‘ These men are torn between yearning to be close to a woman and having a deep fear of hostility towards them , ’ says psychologist Dr Susan Forward . |
| 7 | In the case of the covariance of the market with itself , it is going to be equal to the market variance where by definition ) . |
| 8 | What about if T goes on for about erm one second , when it 's going to be equal to V M one minus E to the minus one . |
| 9 | And in fact any response is probably going to be negative to that , because they did such bad read-out when they read the thing that they 're going to want to be pretty snotty , sort of , anything they wrote about that . |
| 10 | As the constitutional reforms were to a very great degree imposed on the Japanese , the lead given by US authorities on interpreting the reforms was going to be crucial to post-Occupation Japan . |
| 11 | It seems unlikely then , that ‘ standard procedures ’ of recording space and time are going to be relevant to the unique identification of utterance acts . |
| 12 | Like all commercial businesses British Steel must make a profit and times are hard , but this is cost cutting which is going to be detrimental to our community . ’ |
| 13 | I think some stations might do that , but they only do it if , if it 's , if it 's not going to be detrimental to the turn out , in other words they , they have a system , erm for instance they have a duty crew over the weekend , so that at least some can take their families to the seaside if they wanted to , so six will remain around the house er er but they do have some system , but I think the majority of fire stations , there are twenty seven in Suffolk like that , who work on the system of getting there as quickly as they can , and that is the best competition to get there , to get the ride . |
| 14 | But such was the resistance from management , it was feared that it would become impossible to recruit top-quality personnel from the private sector if they were going to be subject to oversight from the Comptroller . |
| 15 | Does n't look as if it 's going to be dry to me . |
| 16 | Now you 'll recall I said that we will we will try and isolate try and isolate throughout the afternoon those things which are going to be useful to you . |
| 17 | She 's an even weaker fool than her brother , but she 's going to be useful to me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're going to be close to each other for the next few days , perhaps longer , and I refuse to keep calling you Miss Adams ; Claudia is a charming name . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ What do you mean by saying we 're going to be close to each other ? |
| 21 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 22 | There was no way that the Party was going to be generous to Ted Heath after three General Election defeats out of four . |
| 23 | once you 've got these gipsies on your permanent site , are they going to be liable to the Community Charge ? |
| 24 | When you get to about 13 or 14 , you begin to realize that your colour , even if you had n't thought about it much , means that other people are going to be different to you . |
| 25 | That clearly is not going to be acceptable to those authorities . |
| 26 | Performance is not breathtaking but it 's going to be acceptable to most people . |
| 27 | Typically a multi-speaker recognition system , the only sort that is going to be acceptable to users , will allow between 20 and 30 words to be recognised at a time with a success rate of around 85 to 90% . |
| 28 | going to be able to ? |
| 29 | You 're not going to be able to just look at it and write down something equals two X are you . |
| 30 | And it does n't look as if I 'm going to be able to either , thought Donna irritably . |