Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [v-ing] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bradford City supporters are constantly writing to the rag complaining of too much coverage for Leeds ( It really does piss them off ) . |
| 2 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 3 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 4 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
| 5 | Such discussions not only take an inordinate amount of time ( a subtle form of disobedience ) , but they are subversive because they are so rewarding to the child . |
| 6 | Spokesman Sylvia Rigby said : ‘ They seem to think we are only objecting to the level of the charge but we are against it all together . ’ |
| 7 | This is the stage to take decisive action , because by ignoring this threat gesture , you are merely acquiescing to the dog s challenge , and adopting a subordinate position . |
| 8 | Some of these are already leading to the introduction of modular courses in arts subjects , as well as cross-arts initiatives . |
| 9 | But you 've decided why you , you 're just rising to the bait then are n't you , if these arguments are between you , and you 're coming out with all this , it just makes you look stupid because you 're , you 're into , are n't you ? |
| 10 | We 're just getting to the end of that now , we 'll be another mark on the er five year list you know between eighty seven and ninety two . |
| 11 | Before you always felt that someone 's got this under control and they 're just going to the wire , but now they 've crossed the wire . ’ |
| 12 | But we 're also looking to the future . |
| 13 | Sir I I 'm just not sure how you how you want to play this because you may feel I beginning to feel we 're probably getting to the end of this circuit here . |
| 14 | Today pensioners from Nuffield Press in Cowley and Hazel , in Aylesbury were amoung hundreds lobbying Parliament , with the shortfall affecting up to two hundred people in the region they 're now turning to the government for help . |
| 15 | Right , colleagues , we 're now going to the Energy and Utilities debate and er I 'd like to propose that we do it in the following fashion . |
| 16 | Colleagues we 're now going to the transport debate and there are five motions listed here . |
| 17 | so they 're seriously looking to the trunk road network coming down bypass and then going off round the Caernarvon bypass ? |
| 18 | ‘ You know , Mr Lytham , I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that my bequest might also wait a few more years . |
| 19 | ‘ I am rapidly coming to the conclusion , ’ said Busacher thoughtfully , ‘ that it is something personal with Madge Grimsilk and me . |
| 20 | Companies like Intermedia and Altertext exist solely to serve this market and are ever adding to the range of formats that they can handle . |
| 21 | I get to the fence leading downhill and follow it , stumbling now and again on the rocks and stones left at the side of the field ; my eyes are still adjusting to the darkness . |
| 22 | The campaign has been launched in part because of what Greenpeace calls the government 's failure to back alternatives to chlorine-based technology and instead to encourage the use of HCFCs , which are still damaging to the ozone layer . |
| 23 | Such arrangements , although of advantage to the enterprises concerned , are clearly damaging to the rest of the economy . |
| 24 | HCFCs are also damaging to the ozone layer , albeit less so than CFCs . |
| 25 | Children are also reacting to the pressure on individuals to compete and succeed , he said . |
| 26 | Er , Council are also agreeing to the road and a District Council are in agreement with the road , albeit that they have asked for the road to follow more closely to the erm but I believe it is acceptable that the road and the line of the road in general principle is . |
| 27 | Er G E C Marconi 's are the leader of a consortium , a four nation consortium of companies that are supplying the computer and are also contributing to the software . |
| 28 | Maryland and Rice Universities are also contributing to the work , which is being carried out as part of the National Science Foundation 's Center for Research in Parallel Computation . |
| 29 | When God 's word on some matter comes to us in repeated form in different ways , it is worth reflecting whether we are really attending to the influence it is intended to have upon our beliefs and behaviour . |
| 30 | And they are now getting to the point where they are are popular as the folders in terms of |