Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was this was ‘ a good example to be setting to the Chinese Government ’ ? |
| 2 | They seemed to be pandering to the silliest stereotypes . |
| 3 | The consequent adverse publicity was widely held to be damaging to the Labour cause . |
| 4 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 5 | Trafalgar House , BR 's favoured partner , is reliably understood to have rejected the idea of building a terminal at Stratford and to be sticking to the final route chosen by BR . |
| 6 | Mrs Padmore , as we know from the memorandum at the front of the file , is going to be transferring to the Economic Secretariat in a few weeks ' time . |
| 7 | Key Sun employees in the areas of programming and signal processing are said to be moving to the new company , which is claimed to have made breakthroughs in security and ease of use . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I 'm supposed to be reporting to the principal medical officer in the ship 's hospital . ’ |
| 9 | Charles seemed to be listening to the brilliant quintet banging out its jazz . |
| 10 | ‘ The Russians seem to be over-reacting to the yellow peril , ’ Hayman observed laconically . |
| 11 | And not least because after an era of relative restraint in 15-cert films , we appear to be returning to the near glorification of casual sexual encounters . |
| 12 | I would very much hope that other parents would not feel that they ought to be doing to the same thing , unless their circumstances were very similar . |
| 13 | I would very much hope that other parents would not feel that they ought to be doing to the same thing , unless their circumstances were very similar . |
| 14 | Although , in referring to the possibility that serfdom might " abolish itself from below " , the tsar seemed to be responding to the rural disturbances which had resulted from Nicholas 's militia creations , in all probability he simply lifted the phrase from a Third Department report of 1839 whose purpose , though reformist , had hardly been the complete transformation of government policy . |
| 15 | Things matter if , as themes , they can be seen to be frequently returned to in the documents and , moreover , to be responding to the stated purposes of Pope John in calling the Council . |
| 16 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 17 | So we have suggested , erm , you will see in our evidence that policy H One should be amended and their are clearly a number of ways in which that amended amendment could take place , but we would particularly suggest that erm an indication should be given as to what the proportion of each district 's allocation is assumed to be going to the new settlement , if the new settlement is is agreed under the H Two discussion , thank you . |
| 18 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 19 | It already has some reports from Ipswich as that bane of gardening life , the cabbage white butterfly , appears to be adapting to the traditional winter in the region . |
| 20 | To some extent the blame for rural distress was attributed to the fluctuations in world markets , but as the zaibatsu did not appear to be suffering to the same extent , rural discontent was increasingly directed towards the alliance between politicians and industrial financiers . |
| 21 | In the seventy seventh minute another great save by Bolder ; Magilton took a free kick from the left , Steve Foster got his head to the ball , it appeared to be heading to the far corner of the net , but Bolder somehow dived away to his left and forced the ball away . |
| 22 | People were tiring of old-style ‘ workerist ’ ultra-left politics and standing at factory gates being laughed at by the very workers they were supposed to be leading to the new Jerusalem . |