Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [v-ing] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can this be happening to his grammar ? |
| 2 | ‘ I could n't believe this was happening to my family . |
| 3 | But Anselm had another reason for action : the procedure he had started eighteen months earlier for excommunicating the king if he did not return the lands and revenues of the archbishopric was drawing to its end . |
| 4 | Arguments at home , worries about parents , pressure from friends , worrying about exams , money , sex ; in the end it can all be damaging to your health . |
| 5 | ‘ Something terrible is happening to my master . |
| 6 | And we commence this morning with Lot number one Lot number one is showing to my right here , the ivory carving at fifty pounds at fifty pounds at fifty pounds you want it for fifty pounds , thank you sir , fifty I 've got now , fifty pounds is offered at fifty five at fifty five , sixty , sixty five seventy , seventy five eighty five ninety ninety pounds in the back row at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , any further bids at ninety pounds at ninety pounds . |
| 7 | For instance , when poor forms part of an identifying phrase with liar it is natural that its notion of DEFICIENT should most readily be understood to mean a deficiency in the matter of lying ; when a speaker chooses not to use poor attributively but in the predicative construction then a natural inference is that he or she intends the notion DEFICIENT to be taken in the way more typical of human beings in general , that is referring to their material resources . |
| 8 | He was n't privy to any really sensitive stuff that could have put him in danger — that 's according to my liaison fella in SIS . ’ |
| 9 | Remote procedure call technology firm , Netwise Inc is retreating to its home base in Boulder , Colorado . |