Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open years are proving to be open wounds for Lloyd 's . |
| 2 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 3 | For this Christmas , the battery-operated WWF Wrestlers are proving to be the best-sellers . |
| 4 | How interesting these Oscars are proving to be . |
| 5 | Recent introductions from America such as N. Charlene Strawn and N. Texas Dawn are proving to be promising and therefore becoming popular . |
| 6 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 7 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 8 | Effectively , they are competing to be last . |
| 9 | SERAFIN : If by ‘ silly ’ you mean ‘ simple-minded ’ , then take heart , because simple-minded is what we are struggling to be . |
| 10 | They have been there over years and many of the established patterns of reaction are demanding to be looked at . |
| 11 | This may be excellent fodder for people who are aspiring to be the next winner of Mastermind . |
| 12 | I work with a number of young people who are aspiring to be writers and we have put together an anthology of Black women writing about their experiences from inside South Africa . |
| 13 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |
| 14 | It is , in fact , the case that the men are pretending to be prepared to operate the accident and emergency service . |
| 15 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 16 | However , as table 5.2 and figure 5.2 show , the other very important component of the trend is that more people than before are living to be very old , into the high eighties and nineties , and this is to some degree due to changing mortality trends at later ages . |
| 17 | This instrument of control , however , is the least effective of the three because , in contrast to the good old days , parts of the press are refusing to be browbeaten . |
| 18 | The other worrying trend is that the companies getting into difficulty are tending to be larger . |
| 19 | Certainly that one is totally overpowered by the background and these ones are tending to be just a little bit . |
| 20 | It may be that friends and relatives who are less affected by the death of the family member , could give some special attention to the children who are wanting to be comforted and to be told what is going on . |
| 21 | Four of the extra 21 community stations are vying to be first on the air . |
| 22 | Projects from Middlesbrough , Stockton and Redcar are vying to be included among the 20 towns and cities which will receive Government cash for improvement schemes . |
| 23 | When people are attempting to be different for the sake of it , I find it incredibly irritating . ’ |
| 24 | Already 206 Chinese are waiting to be repatriated . |
| 25 | Thousands of property deals are waiting to be completed because local tax offices are refusing to deal with the French equivalent of stamp duty . |
| 26 | Many more life-saving drugs are waiting to be made from rainforest species . |
| 27 | Take this opportunity to explore these beautiful and varied islands that are waiting to be discovered ! |
| 28 | ‘ And do n't fuss any more about such things , ’ said Dotty , ‘ I really have n't time to explain it all when the chickens are waiting to be fed . ’ |
| 29 | We are waiting to be blown |
| 30 | Look happy — other people are waiting to be friendly . |