Example sentences of "[noun] were [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Orange warned that the costs involved in addressing environmental pressures on the worldwide oil industry were rising to a point where they would soon equal revenues . |
| 2 | His pal May and Atkins also deejayed on the show , playing an electric mix of house and European electronic music they 'd got into in high school when all the other kids were listening to the Gap Band and Prince . |
| 3 | Prospective owners were required to put down an initial deposit of £50,000 , which seemed fair enough when they had received 1,400 applications and at a time when the prices of exclusive cars were rising to the stratosphere . |
| 4 | ‘ That week orchestras around the world programmed the Adagietto as an elegy to Lenny 's memory , ’ Kaplan recalls , ‘ and while the precedent had been set by Bernstein himself [ he had conducted the movement at a memorial service for Koussevitzky and later at the funeral of US Senator Robert Kennedy ] , I was afraid that these ultra-slow , sad performances were helping to a trend into a false tradition . ’ |
| 5 | Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness , and now she could see that he had folded his arms over the enticing broadness of his chest and was watching her with a challenging glitter in his eyes . |
| 6 | Just when his eyes were adjusting to the gloom , the novice ahead of him threw open a door , and Gabriel emerged into pale but blinding sunlight flaring in low through the window of the gallery . |
| 7 | In 1272–3 the English clergy were yielding to the papacy a crusading tenth on behalf of Edward and his brother , Edmund of Lancaster , arrears from which were still outstanding in 1276 . |
| 8 | If England were looking to the future then some of the players should have been selected years ago . |
| 9 | Its morale had recovered far too well , in that its officers and instructors were turning to a doctrine of offensive warfare at all costs . |
| 10 | They made specific donations on the night in the knowledge that it all the proceeds were going to the cancer day ward and that helped to boost the figure . |
| 11 | The marketeers and production people were planning dramatic growth in car sales in the next 20 years , but the corporate planners were pointing to a problem which would severely limit car sales — a worldwide shortage of trained chauffeurs ! |
| 12 | The genesis of these provisions was the widespread belief that the operations of share-pushers were damaging to the integrity of the markets , and contrary to the public interest . |
| 13 | Mary came in , sat briefly with Alice , said she and Reggie were going to the cinema . |
| 14 | The amount of help poorer workers were giving to the Exchequer by 1912 was , in fact , considerable . |
| 15 | Once high levels had been set , nobles who chose not to turn rents into cash were acting to the detriment of their own best interests . |
| 16 | But the sand was thinning : the bones of dead monks were drifting to the surface of the pit that had once been a graveyard , while the headstones sank slowly towards the bedrock . |
| 17 | When this was fed back to the operators , they were quickly able to see how their actions were contributing to the effluent and to make substantial reductions in the amount of ammonia leaving the plant . |
| 18 | Benton and his Assistant Editor managed to keep the New Times of Burma going and we could still use the radio , but it was obvious that things were moving to a climax , and I was desperately afraid that violence would develop throughout the country . |
| 19 | Investigations came hot on the heels of the new sound and realistic films and by the time of The Public Enemy and Scarface things were building to a crescendo . |
| 20 | The grinding , stretching sounds were rising to a pitch and behind it all , another low-register noise . |
| 21 | It was a bright , sunny morning , + mum + I were going to the school exchange for some uniform . |
| 22 | It 's all going wrong for Forest just when Frank Clark thought his problems were coming to an end . |
| 23 | The Arnhem debacle effectively put an end to our hopes of peace by Christmas , and gradually it seemed that the combined Allied armies were slithering to a halt . |
| 24 | Early this morning , officers were speaking to the man 's family to check on his movements before the incident . |
| 25 | Well because I thought that the hits were coming to an end and I did n't want to become an all-round entertainer , I was n't suited to it , I w I did n't have any feeling for all-round entertaining . |
| 26 | People came running with lanterns and torches , and soon hundreds of people were hurrying to the house . |
| 27 | Lots of people were returning to the hut , but lots were going on to the Ober Gabelhorn . |
| 28 | It was a sign of the dawning self-consciousness of the age that more and more people were turning to the vernacular to express their deepest thoughts and feelings . |
| 29 | Former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra said that supporters of the former right-wing dictator Gen. Anastasio Somoza were returning to the country and attacking the FSLN . |
| 30 | More and more of the American leaders were coming to the view that the United States herself would become dangerously exposed unless Germany and Japan were at least contained and preferably defeated . |