Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left with no choice but to accept the responsibility or to pursue its own independent inquiries , the airline instructed Windels , Marx , Davies & Ives to prepare its defence and to investigate the suggestions of government complicity that were already coming to light . |
| 2 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 3 | However , an outspoken minority of executives responsible for recruiting felt strongly that the industry has a disreputable , cowboy element that is potentially damaging to client users and to professional and respectable search firms alike . |
| 4 | My ploy of leading our little group of producers with programme instruction by example was a compromise that was not going to work . |
| 5 | Although graphite and diamond both exist at ordinary temperatures and pressures , diamonds are actually unstable and are continuously reverting to graphite . |
| 6 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 7 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 8 | The company that bottles the water says it 's acting completely within the law and is simply responding to customer demand . |
| 9 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 10 | Today there is much public concern about the amount of incest that occurs and is now coming to light . |
| 11 | We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ . |