Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] were [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside demands for increased professional autonomy for teachers , their professional organizations were also pressing to be included in the education decision-making processes . |
| 2 | Some of the casualties had small circulations , but by the spring papers with an average circulation of about 50,000 copies were also going to the wall . |
| 3 | But quite different ideas were also contributing to the formation of modern sociology . |
| 4 | The singer was ready to start , and some couples were already dancing to her tapes . |
| 5 | Air quality manager Peter Shawcross said the results were currently being examined and evaluated and that interesting facts were already coming to light . |
| 6 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 7 | His earlier much-fabled ‘ ruthless determination ’ and fanatical single-mindedness were now becoming to be regarded as a major liability , and the command to the 6th Army to fight to the last man was seen as its fateful demonstration . |
| 8 | Although the stark trees were just beginning to be in leaf , and familiarity had lessened the menacing air of the place , Theda still found herself uncomfortable within it . |
| 9 | But , they do seem to stress the way the changes in democratic practices were merely responding to the need to adapt the US model to Japanese values as though there were a collectively agreed set of values to call upon . |
| 10 | These questions were utterly demoralising to the vassals of the late Emperor , and were to cause debate and confusion for many years to come . |
| 11 | The remainder of these unfortunates were already contributing to family incomes as labourers , shop boys , glovers , house-servants , rag collectors and so on . |
| 12 | More Jews were now emigrating to Israel because of US restrictions on their immigration [ see p. 37094 ; for controversy over increased Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel in early 1990 see p. 37304 ] . |
| 13 | Speakers who were unaware of or unable to select and then transmit these differentiating features were clearly going to be ineffective communicators . |
| 14 | ‘ It was general knowledge that Swithlands operated such a policy and it was plain men were never going to be offered positions on the sales force , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Yeah I mean me I it may be inappropriate at this moment in time to say we will do it now because of obvious reasons but prior to the recession it was an ongoing thing that the the board were in through the general manager were actually writing to many companies . |
| 16 | By now the whole of downtown Morpork was alight , and the richer and worthier citizens of Ankh on the far bank were bravely responding to the situation by feverishly demolishing the bridges . |
| 17 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 18 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 19 | Thai saw-mill operators were also turning to loggers in Laos , Cambodia , Indonesia and Malaysia to replace their lost supplies . |
| 20 | We know , however , that preliminary rumbles of the Hercynian orogeny were already beginning to be heard at the end of Dinantian times . |
| 21 | Author Penny Junor — widely regarded as the royal writer closest to the prince — said the latest allegations were deliberately damaging to the Royal Family . |