Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] be [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike methanogenesis , however , the product is not a harmless gut , but is highly toxic hydrogen sulphide , an agent that is potentially damaging to the colonic epithelium . |
| 2 | Susan Hyland joined the British Foreign Service , while Anne McGivern survived the torturous B.C.L. programme and is now training to be a barrister in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | That 's starting to take er effect and is actually beginning to er , to pay off . |
| 4 | Sales were focused first on the East Coats , then the West Coast and are now spreading to the Gulf of Mexico , pulling in new business — currently worth about £1 million a year — at a time when marine growth is static . |
| 5 | Called Crimp 'n Curl , these cuddly cuties have hair that 's just waiting to be styled . |
| 6 | Even when you have n't , yeah , but erm , no I mean , there is a guy at work , I mean there is a guy at work that 's constantly saying to me , oh it 's really noticing , it 's really started , he says this every day , and he , after a while , I mean it 's nice to be told it , once in a while , but not every day . |
| 7 | The company that bottles the water says it 's acting completely within the law and is simply responding to customer demand . |
| 8 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 11 | It is difficult to believe that every time Tinbergen presented a model bill to a chick his activity coincided with a third , unobserved variable that was really signalling to the chick to start pecking ; that would however be possible for the natural observation that chicks peck when their parent arrives . |
| 12 | After he had given up the slave trade and was already hoping to be ordained , he was appointed tide-surveyor in the port of Liverpool with duties that included the inspection of incoming vessels . |
| 13 | He looked around and saw a great many faces all wearing the same expression , an expression stating that they were never going to be surprised by anything in history and that they had already had every thought that was ever going to be in his head . |
| 14 | Schofield has already had cause to caution Montgomerie — in 1991 — and yesterday he said : ‘ He is a fine golfer and is clearly going to be a major figure in the game for as long as he remains active in it , but he has to be able to take it on the chin . |
| 15 | There was a newsflash at nine to say that the rescue party had reached the injured man and were now returning to the surface , and then nothing until almost midnight . |
| 16 | Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language . |
| 17 | He had left the comparative safety of the platform of the step-ladder and was now clinging to what felt like a dangerously pliable branch of the tree . |
| 18 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings . |
| 22 | Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings . |
| 23 | She thought it was Swimmer of Lakes for a moment , but her horse had already returned to open land and was quietly grazing to the east . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | The wisdom of not proceeding simultaneously very much depends on the condition of the property market at the time and is inevitably going to be a gamble . |
| 26 | Companies like Intermedia and Altertext exist solely to serve this market and are ever adding to the range of formats that they can handle . |