Example sentences of "to be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the shoeshiners you 've said ‘ Mañana ’ to are waiting for you . |
| 2 | He appeared genuinely not to know of Atkins and to be trying to be helpful . |
| 3 | Wilko must have fome faith in his ability … he seems to be trying to ‘ break ’ him in somehwat like Speed . |
| 4 | So you wo n't need to be searching through anywhere else . |
| 5 | For their part the Brazilians want to play British oppositon to remind themselves of what it feels like to be searching for the ball in the air for much of the game . |
| 6 | ‘ Make out we have n't seen him , ’ Otley said as he pretended to be searching for something in the grass . |
| 7 | He came down from the knoll and seemed to be searching for somebody . |
| 8 | He appeared to be searching for some key document . |
| 9 | He seemed to be searching for something more — to say , but then repeated , " Yes , very nice . |
| 10 | It would have given her an excuse to be searching for a particular room , but she had been so frightened … |
| 11 | Instead he went over to one of the shelves and pretended to be searching for a book . |
| 12 | Someone , somewhere out there just had to be searching for her . |
| 13 | For example , although Rampton-type surveys suggest that Asian pupils are performing as well as white pupils , there is growing evidence of wide variations in school achievement within the Asian communities : in particular , children of Bangladeshi origin appear to be achieving at much lower levels than other Asian groups ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | David Kent seemed to be achieving near miracles . |
| 15 | It would not be healthy still to be mourning after so many years . ’ |
| 16 | Whom did you say you were supposed to be meeting at the airport ? |
| 17 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 18 | He wondered what had happened to handsome Georgie , the boy he was supposed to be meeting at the pub on the night of the murder . |
| 19 | I just , you know , some meant to be meeting at five past one |
| 20 | He proposes to become a capitalist and a ship-insurer , but seems not to be meeting with much success . |
| 21 | In a context where design debate , narrowly conceived , seems to be meeting with little success in evaluating design 's social import , the questions raised — is design the means whereby we can shape future socio-technological systems to create a richer and more emancipated life or simply the often impotent agent of techno-economic systems ? — become a means to general design understanding . |
| 22 | When he comes to the first dramatic event he appears to be reaching towards a dramatic present here comes but is constrained by the prevailing past tense of the narration . |
| 23 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 24 | If his mind was too restless to maintain any hold on the spiritual , then did n't he have something far more immediate to face up to rather than to be wallowing in daily bouts of nostalgia ? |
| 25 | A schoolteacher from Eastern Europe , believed to be touring in the area . |
| 26 | Does the Secretary of State share many people 's concern about the fate of some 100,000 Soviet or ex-Soviet nuclear scientists who seem to be voting with their feet , particularly those who appear to have the skills to dismantle the 27,000 or so warheads , and the possibility that those skills may be lost ? |
| 27 | They are shortly to be voting on new student dress regulations that will allow school principals to ban the sign from their institutions . |
| 28 | However , Mill was against a secret ballot , Mill thought votes ought to be cast publicly and the reason for this is that he thought people ought to be voting on their view of what is right and so therefore they ought to be publicly accountable . |
| 29 | We have no idea what people are meant are meant to be doing when they 're voting , this was a problem I raised are people meant to be expressing their interest , are people meant to be voting like members of a jury ? |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not right to be joking about things like that , ’ he said . |