Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all the effects of the privity doctrine are necessarily damaging to third party purchasers or creditors . |
| 2 | If you are already working to maximum efficiency , then great ! |
| 3 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 4 | We 're still talking to each other . |
| 5 | C S Lewis says , ‘ Lovers are always talking to each other about their love ; friends hardly ever talk about their friendship . |
| 6 | And they are now working to this timetable for the road . |
| 7 | We are now adding to this service . |
| 8 | But it may not be enough according to some industry commentators . |
| 9 | But now I 'm finally getting to that burner . ’ |
| 10 | Will he do everything to ensure that the recent announcement by the European Community , which reflects the attitude of the French and those who agree with them in respect of the general agreement on tariffs and trade proposals , will not be immensely damaging to British farming and world trade as a whole ? |
| 11 | I believe that , if we are not participants in it , it will be severely damaging to inward investment . |
| 12 | The editorial , ‘ The principles of restructuring : the revolutionary nature of thinking and acting ’ , 'insisted that there was ‘ no alternative to perestroika ’ and that even its postponement would be gravely damaging to Soviet society and to socialism internationally . |
| 13 | Companies are increasingly turning to environmental auditing to help them fulfil their responsibilities . |
| 14 | To overcome such effects brews are increasingly turning to preprepared hop extracts of one form or another . |
| 15 | Cal and her mum were hardly speaking to each other . |
| 16 | If you were now talking to each other tonight round the table in the restaurant or at the bar in the hotel okay . |
| 17 | ‘ I notice now the accent is already switching to more mobility as they come to terms with the new laws , ’ he explained . |
| 18 | If she has to deal with him at all , even quite briefly , people start saying ‘ She 's always talking to that man , — who knows why she has so much to say . ’ |
| 19 | Israel 's tourist industry is gradually recovering to pre-Gulf War levels , according to latest Israeli Government statistics . |
| 20 | It 's like talking to that wall |
| 21 | In addition to the foul stench it produces , it is also damaging to sensitive mucous membranes . |
| 22 | Such erosion is also contributing to accelerated sedimentation in reservoirs but it is not the only cause , as Tejwani ( 1987b ) has discussed in relation to reservoirs in the Indian Himalaya . |
| 23 | Opposition is now beginning to proposed gold mining in Co . |
| 24 | In some of these , initial confrontation is now leading to constructive dialogue with local authority officials . |
| 25 | There must be a limit beyond which expenditure on the social and public services is detrimental to economic growth ; there is , however , a corresponding point below which social service expenditure is equally damaging to economic development . |
| 26 | Africa 's disenchantment with the two Washington institutions is fast turning to outright hostility . |
| 27 | Every teacher who makes excessive sacrifices in the time and attention needed for his own personal growth to the demands of the organisation within which he works or to its students is ultimately denying to that organisation and those students the very knowledge , understanding and skill which it is his professional responsibility to offer . |
| 28 | Design engineers are therefore turning to computational science . |
| 29 | ’ I was mostly reporting to that woman leader , Sergia ’ |
| 30 | It was apparently reassuring to this woman to have her aggression recognized so straightforwardly , because the couple was then able to have intercourse . |