Example sentences of "be [prep] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sure God save us , ’ they would say , ‘ is n't it soft in the head the poor man must be to be carrying round an old gun for to fight the Rooskies ? ’ |
| 2 | Now it seems to me obvious that there is such a problem , er and to deny it seems to me to be to be denying the obvious . |
| 3 | And how lucky I am to be living in Badminton , a beautiful Cotswold village , on the edge of a park in the middle of a great landed estate , with all the amenities provided at my landlord 's expense and responsibility . |
| 4 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 5 | ‘ Dear friends and relations , I think this is the moment when we should be aware of how lucky we are to be partaking of such excellent food and spare a thought for those less fortunate . ’ |
| 6 | When you book you will be asked how many games you wish to play and how many people are to be playing . |
| 7 | In fact , in interviews , a quick reference to the home town frequently serves them as well as a rhetorical trick : by declaring their provinciality , they can remind you just how surprised they are to be attracting so much attention all of a sudden . |
| 8 | You should know weeks ahead just what you are to be studying and at what time . |
| 9 | They were taking a trip to Canada and the States and were to be staying with Cassie 's Canadian aunt and uncle . |
| 10 | Upgrading the facilities would primarily involve an extension to the computer network to service three additional visitors per year , at a cost of 4500 Ecu , and the provision of an additional research microscope if the proposed visitor were to be considering diatom research , at a cost of 45000 Ecu . |
| 11 | But it or if I were to be thinking I 'd say , Is n't he . |
| 12 | If you were to be talking in a discussion group on television , or writing an article for a widely read magazine , such a statement would then be quite unacceptable . |
| 13 | The class spent considerable time examining these photographs , attempting to anticipate the kind of personalities they were to be working with . |
| 14 | The telephone rang at 8a.m. this morning to alert me to the fact that you were to be broadcasting on Radio 4 … 't was a friend of mine to whom I had mentioned your future plans … |
| 15 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 16 | Led by Trude Unruh , 64 , the chair of the Grey Panthers who had been elected to the Bundestag in 1987 on the Greens ' list , the party 's main concerns were to be campaigning for better pensions and for better conditions in nursing homes and countering " ageist " attitudes . |
| 17 | Given that there does not seem to be the same reluctance to imbibe proteins made from plants as there is to be using the proteins in the milk of Dr Ron James ' transgenic sheep or Scotgen 's ‘ humanised ’ mouse antibodies , there may be a good case for a local entrepreneur to transfer an Amazonian shaman 's technology to make a Scottish national wonder drug . |
| 18 | As she is to be moving house and garden this year , she foresees a ceremonial tree-planting as a follow-up to the presentation . |
| 19 | Her dream really is to be teaching at City of London School |
| 20 | Now there is to be twinning between the two regions , to be followed by exchanges of students and younger architects . |
| 21 | The idea is to be riding in the cool of the day , and when there is much less traffic — and they can then spend the rest of the day with their families . |
| 22 | Norway 's goal is to be producing 80 MTOE by the end of the century . |
| 23 | ‘ Every Man Now , be his fortune what it will , is to be doing something at his Place , as the fashionable Phrase is , ’ writes an enthusiast in 1739 ‘ and you hardly meet with any Body , who , after the first Compliments , does not inform you , that he is in Mortar and moving of Earth ; the modest terms for Building and Gardening ’ . |
| 24 | Like a marriage , the important matter is to be talking and remain talking . |
| 25 | But it is often assumed that so doing is to be following in the footsteps of Marx , when he gave his example of luxury goods production , basing himself on the premise that the sub-department lib produced only goods for capitalist consumption . |
| 26 | I was always doing landscapes outside ; so I know what it is to be working out in the field in December at six o'clock in the morning . |
| 27 | The latter case is more likely if the new user is to be working as part of a team , since the team leader will probably have the privilege to create users according to the needs of the project . |
| 28 | What we want is to be working here . |
| 29 | And then the job was on the following days was after be shooting rabbits to feed them do you see . |
| 30 | Tony gave me his thoughts on the situation — about how pleased he was to be wandering around at four in the morning , in the pitch black , in deep snow , in the cold , in the wind . |