Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 2 | The wind was now gusting to Force 11 and visibility still poor . |
| 3 | The level of undiscovered malpractice is a matter for conjecture although such evidence is continually coming to light , as illustrated in the manner in which leading drug/pesticide/herbicide companies callously exploit the Third World . |
| 4 | ‘ And unless you 're going to allow it to be your husband — to let him be boss , in fact — your relationship is never going to work . |
| 5 | Thornton Swish is now offering to double-glaze the seven windows and french doors at the house in Chester-le-Street , County Durham , for £3,900 . |
| 6 | The exchange rate policy was highly damaging to manufacturing . |
| 7 | One word of warning : do n't assume that your surprise attack is always going to work , otherwise you might get a nasty surprise yourself . |
| 8 | The Government is ostensibly looking to Parliament to confer not just statutory enactment of what it negotiated at Maastricht , but moral and political assent . |
| 9 | ‘ My knee is never going to work the way it should , Seb , but the muscles of my leg are working much better , have you noticed ? |
| 10 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 11 | Whelan showed considerable grace and skill up front but the strategy of putting high balls into the West Ham box was never going to work with their defensive blanket , and a highly competent goalie . |
| 12 | At first the case failed because there was no category of clergy malpractice , but a Judge was found who soon put that right and the case is now proceeding to trial . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the company is reportedly preparing to demo some previously unseen systems management functionality in NT this week at a conference in Boston including software distribution , performance monitoring and inventory control . |
| 14 | The broad thoroughfare was now corning to life . |
| 15 | But by asserting the ability of language to create true fictions , this celebration of the power of language is also helping to de-centre language 's supposed referential relation with the world of epistemological things . |