Example sentences of "and [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is necessary to determine the amount of cleaning , checking and editing to be done before deposition of the data with the Data Archive is possible . |
| 2 | The single ranks as one of ‘ 92 's finest , receiving huge club play from a limited white label pressing and proving to be the stand-out tune on the first ‘ Movin' On ’ British soul compilation album . |
| 3 | Even illustrations may not be adequate , details of pictures often being poorly represented , leaving an artist 's techniques , materials and handling to be discovered from more specialist studies . |
| 4 | It , we never sort of slackened off at all and in those days there was so much brass to be cleaned and scrubbing to be done and cleaning . |
| 5 | Over the next 2 weeks she telephoned the therapist two or three times a week complaining of a variety of physical symptoms and demanding to be seen straight away . |
| 6 | Despite some improvements having occurred in her problems , she continued telephoning the therapist , making threats of suicide and demanding to be seen . |
| 7 | Then , as they came out onto an open stretch of bitten turf at the foot of the hill where the rabbits were running , as though a signal had been given a universal clamour broke out , a clatter , a din of singing , from the unseen roof-tops of the village behind them , from the beeches on the Down , from the ash trees that stood like singing poles in the hedgerows along the hollow track , from every tree it seemed of the whole vast forest birds were singing and singing and demanding to be heard . |
| 8 | I would follow her around the house , clinging on to her skirt , unwilling to let her out of my sight , and demanding to be fed with some small token such as an apple or a piece of bread . |
| 9 | Hitler 's deputy , no less , baling out over Scotland then surrendering amiably to a farmer and demanding to be taken to the Duke of Hamilton . |
| 10 | The man pulled up 100 yards behind and walked up to her car , banging on the window and demanding to be let in . |
| 11 | The formal experiments and innovations on which Picasso was about to embark , and which were to result in a fully developed Cubist language were too innovative , too complex and demanding to be developed or pursued within the context of multifigure compositions . |
| 12 | The little laundry maid who came in daily from the village was dismayed to find Miss Alexandra in the laundry room asking what clear starch was and demanding to be shown how to use a goffering iron . |
| 13 | God/dess has no interest in our begging for forgiveness , bearing crosses and praying to be allowed into heaven , but is urging us to dance , to celebrate , to love — to create a heaven on earth , where it should have been all along . |
| 14 | A second , conservation-oriented design met with more approval but action was blocked by the imposition of an environmental safeguard on the area by the then Minister for Beni culturali Vincenza Bono Parrino , which permitted no more than monitoring and surveying to be carried out . |
| 15 | Mr Stephen , sitting by a paraffin heater , was also writing on pieces of paper , and appearing to be adding things up . |
| 16 | No telegraph or telephone , just as in early days of railways , when nobody knew where a train might be until it arrived ; a track laid with rails and chairs which in some cases were dated 1865 and ballasted with earth ; semaphores of antique pattern , dropping into the post for ‘ all clear ’ and appearing to be operated on no principle at all … ’ |
| 17 | A human figure was somehow trapped in the plasterwork of that wall at the waist , twisting and scrabbling and thrashing to be free . |
| 18 | In moral education , the young person needs to acquire sufficient knowledge and understanding to be able to make a mature , personal response to Jesus ' invitation in relation to judgements of moral value . |
| 19 | But this intention is itself undermined by the visual evidence presented to us which has implied Black sexuality and overbreeding to be the cause of the problem . |
| 20 | Similarly , if saving exceeded investment , interest rates would fall , causing investment to rise and saving to be reduced . |
| 21 | The rationalist approach , by contrast , is concerned with abstraction rather than facts , stressing the need for deductive consistency and tending to be dogmatic and definitive . |
| 22 | As well as flower planting , there 's plenty of routine grass cutting and strimming to be done by the inmates . |
| 23 | And the old Jew had done likewise : coming to live in nearby Heiligenstadt and pretending to be a moneylender . |
| 24 | When I was with other girls I especially enjoyed playing at nunneries , and pretending to be nuns . |
| 25 | It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time . |
| 26 | Then he 'll see there 's no point fooling around and pretending to be in love with me . |
| 27 | ‘ Spreading out his arms and pretending to be an aeroplane , flying low , machine-gunning . |
| 28 | Committees are places where you can see people snoozing , picking their noses and pretending to be interested in subjects which are of no interest to them . |
| 29 | ‘ 'T IS all very well putting on your old gown and pretending to be a serving-girl so we could pass that dolt at the solar door . |
| 30 | ’ She was scraping the chocolate off the biscuit with her top teeth , and pretending to be absorbed in it . |