Example sentences of "[v-ing] to be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember definite feelings of not wanting to be felt sorry for , very much wanting everything to carry on as normal . |
| 2 | And what 's so terrible about wanting to be left alone ? |
| 3 | They 're going to be collected alright I 'm gon na meet them halfway actually between here and Derbyshire erm at the end of November beginning of December and they are actually going , the last lorry leaves Derbyshire on the tenth of |
| 4 | The other thing er is that all those conference 's are going to be packed full of business men . |
| 5 | Whether this meant that market forces were not going to be allowed unrestrained activity is unclear ; there was definitely no legal mechanism to inhibit them . |
| 6 | He was going to be buried alive ! |
| 7 | But school chiefs were stunned to think that a sex offender was going to be let loose to warn children of the dangers of immoral goings-on . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't face that girl , I ca n't tell her the sadistic bastard that raped her is going to be let loose . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was wondering when I was going to be let free to do the work of the Lord . ’ |
| 10 | I did n't think I was going to be found guilty other than by accident . |
| 11 | I just have to believe [ he 's ] going to be found innocent because I do n't think [ he was ] guilty of any lawbreaking or any crime . |
| 12 | ‘ Does that mean we 're all going to be set free ? ’ |
| 13 | Whenever your computer is going to be left unattended for some time simply run Blaze . |
| 14 | The sentence would be reduced to two years , with the balance of the sentence remaining to be served suspended ( the appellant having served six months ) . |
| 15 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 16 | When she and Dustin were reunited in the laundromat , he was beginning to be noticed off-Broadway and she was an established dancer . |
| 17 | Both these main suites show the combination of ease and comfort which was beginning to be considered essential to the perfect home of the Twenties . |
| 18 | But with the end of the Cold War , Western imperialist intervention under the guise of ‘ fighting Communism ’ is beginning to be laid bare , and the Allies in the Gulf are being exposed as never before . |
| 19 | I sat back expecting to be proved right and watched as people joined in the discussion and debate . |
| 20 | She found it unnerving to be made aware that she could want a man so much physically when her mind was totally against it . |
| 21 | Hundreds of flooded cellars are having to be pumped clear before many shops and business premises can reopen . |
| 22 | Information from unconventional sources not related to the industry carries the extra burden of having to be proved relevant or urgent . |
| 23 | The collectivist emphases of the 1961 Programme — more and more services such as transport and housing to be provided free of charge , more public catering and shared upbringing of children — found no place in the new text , nor did the promise of a minimum one month paid holiday for all citizens . |
| 24 | Midfielder Bull believed he was to become a Manchester United player after a man claiming to be United managing director Martin Edwards agreed a £500,000 deal with manager Barry Fry and chairman Stan Flashman . |
| 25 | to capitalise the appropriate nominal amount of the new Ordinary Shares falling to be allotted pursuant to any elections made as aforesaid out of the amount standing to the credit of any reserve or fund ( including the profit and loss account , share premium account , capital redemption reserve or any other reserve ) , whether or not the same is available for distribution , as the directors may determine , to apply such sum in paying up in full such Ordinary Shares and to allot such Ordinary Shares to the shareholders of the company validly making such elections in accordance with their respective entitlements … |
| 26 | to capitalise the appropriate nominal amount of additional Ordinary Shares falling to be allotted pursuant to elections made as aforesaid , out of the sums standing to the credit of the reserves of the Company ( including any share premium account or capital redemption reserve fund ) or otherwise available for distribution as the Directors may determine and to apply such sums in paying up such Ordinary Shares and to allot such Ordinary Shares to members of the Company validly making such elections in accordance with their respective entitlements ’ . |
| 27 | Quite decent things , hopelessly botched , needing to be made clean again . |
| 28 | The data obtained forms the triangle of a 2,200 by 2,200 matrix ( requiring 4.7Mb disk space ) , and as such required further processing to be rendered comprehensible ( in this case , the application of programs called PATHFINDER and BROWSE ) . |