Example sentences of "[noun] are [v-ing] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths . |
| 2 | The Germans are going to the US twice this year in June and December , when they will play games against England , Brazil and the US ( twice ) . |
| 3 | In the normally austere Hereford Breed , Journal , the owners of the Llandinabo herd claim foreign bulls are leading to the disintegration of the British Hereford by introducing alien blood . |
| 4 | The majority of Tom Troubadour 's opponents are coming to the end of much busier campaigns , and the novice Merry Master may prove the main threat . |
| 5 | Some American artists are responding to the recession by creating more modestly priced works . |
| 6 | Current advances in graptolite biostratigraphy are leading to the recognition of further subdivisions in the Ordovician and Silurian which provide an accurate calibration for parallel work on acritarchs and chitinozoa . |
| 7 | But after 40 years of post-war public sector housing there is now evidence of widespread rejection , and some community groups are looking to the promise of community architecture ( Wates and Knevitt , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | The stalwarts of the Hunterston Cycle Club are taking to the road again in the name of charity . |
| 9 | On the contrary , all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe . |
| 10 | As you are lying with the books under your head , bring your feet as near to your buttocks as is comfortably possible so that your knees are pointing to the ceiling . |
| 11 | I 'm used to taking like his lips are sticking to the window ! |
| 12 | As the factors associated with the presence of these hypersensitive sites are not limiting , recent advances in in vitro footprinting ( 61 ) should permit the dissection of which particular proteins are binding to the DH site sequences indicated in this work . |
| 13 | This is particularly bad in London and , as a result , dissatisfied clients are looking to the merits of regionally-based firms . |
| 14 | I am pleased to say that more and more European Community countries are coming to the views that we have pioneered on reform . |
| 15 | My shoes are sticking to the floor . |
| 16 | Youngsters are turning to the habit because it makes them appear ‘ cool ’ in the eyes of older children . |
| 17 | THE EXODUS from East Europe continued unabated yesterday , with thousands leaving and many would-be emigres defying attempts by the Communist authorities to prevent their crossing into Czechoslovakia , from where most refugees are fleeing to the West . |
| 18 | Can there be a more telling difference between the day when the CBI has confirmed the depth of the recession , unemployment is rising faster than in any other European country , we have a training and skills crisis , which the Government are making worse daily , and the fact that the Conservatives are returning to the agenda of the 1970s because they have no answers to the problems of the 1990s ? |
| 19 | The planes are returning to the United States , although F-One-Eleven fighter bombers are staying on . |
| 20 | Today , Iris and Donald are going to the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford to take part in a study of Alzheimers Disease . |
| 21 | Current advances in knowledge of graptolite morphology and distribution are leading to the recognition of further subdivisions in the Ordovician and the Silurian . |
| 22 | Charity workers are looking to the boys to set an example when they return to Beirut . |
| 23 | People in schools , hospitals , public offices of all kinds are rising to the challenge . |
| 24 | Now that help is urgently needed to stem the threatened spread of AIDS , some governments are looking to the churches to put forward a limiting view of sex . |
| 25 | Lenders are looking to the level of profits now seen rather than on the prospect of ‘ jam tomorrow ’ . |
| 26 | Amazingly famous music supremos Oliver Messiaen , Pierre Boulez and John Cage are coming to the Yorkshire town for the annual Contemporary Music Festival , Britain 's highlight in the world of electro-acoustic chords and allied disharmony . |
| 27 | A month afterwards the teams will be sent out to discover whether retailers are sticking to the letter of the law . |
| 28 | But as yet we 've not had an announcement on those , what those conditions are attaching to the use of the , of the grant . |
| 29 | Three resolutions are going to the UN Security Council . |
| 30 | At least some UK suppliers are responding to the energy efficiency challenge and are offering more efficient appliances , such as chamber furnaces etc . |