Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commanders of Operation Desert Storm are beginning to feel the same way . |
| 2 | The forces of fascist barbarism were threatening to engulf the civilised world . |
| 3 | The Georgian side is trying to smear the Russian armed forces to make up for its own errors , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I find myself left wondering , if £100 million of new money is standing idly by , how much an action programme is going to cost the Labour party and when we shall see it properly costed . |
| 5 | , mummy 's going to have the broken one |
| 6 | But even if this tape is going to record the last speech of somebody famous and it did n't get and therefore they could n't record it , that is co , the consequence of a delay , you know , a fall of snow or our vehicle breaking down or something not being done , or missed some in human , some human error , it 's not our , we do n't lay , we 'll give , we 'll insure or offer transit liability on the value of the goods providing you 've got additional full transit liability with us , but we wo n't for the loss of business because you did n't get it . |
| 7 | Moreover , the industry is beginning to lose the industrial image that it once had of a strike-torn and unreliable supplier . |
| 8 | The lace carriage is going to transfer the selected stitches and the main carriage is going to knit them . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ Whether this new tape is fake or not , then it shows that a conspiracy is operating to discredit the Royal Family and Diana and Charles in particular . |
| 10 | And as a result of doing all these things , ad nauseam , one had begun to believe something which now , with the benefit of hindsight , appears utterly incredible : that Labour was going to win the general election . |
| 11 | For the second approach , two things were significant : that a major change in British industry ( the fact that it was experiencing increasing competitive difficuIties ) was in turn being reflected in geographical changes , and that these geographical changes ( for instance , the decentralization in an effort to cut costs ) were themselves one way in which British industry was seeking to combat the growing pressures upon it . |
| 12 | If you knew which horse was going to win the Grand National , you could make a fortune by betting on it . |
| 13 | There are already signs that its great wealth and influence are beginning to regenerate the whole southern half of Africa , particularly the previously beleaguered states of Mozambique , Angola and Zambia . |
| 14 | Late roses tumbled over stone walls , Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums provided bright patches of colour , and the trees that surrounded the village were beginning to show the first hint of the glowing autumn colours still to come . |
| 15 | Any coach is doing to do the best for his side ; if it suits him to be negative , he will be . |
| 16 | From the point of view of the copyright libraries including ourselves , the case of the Ordnance Survey is also related to the thorny question of maintaining our collections in an era when digital publication is beginning to replace the printed page . |
| 17 | ’ Corbett stared up , noting how the autumn sun was beginning to pierce the heavy mist . |
| 18 | Anabelle Hedgehog was going to face the great golden beast . |
| 19 | In a package to be put before the clubs , the League 's governing body are proposing to increase the First Division from 14 to 16 teams . |
| 20 | Rather they overlap and as one sound is produced the vocal apparatus is preparing to speak the next one . |
| 21 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 22 | Lou Reed 's critical rehabilitation is threatening to turn the old sourpuss into rock ‘ n ’ roll 's first Professor of Literature . |
| 23 | It became possible to argue that although the GDP had undoubtedly continued to grow under the Tories , and more rapidly than in Britain 's past , the jerky ‘ stop-go ’ process was helping to weaken the relative position of the British economy on the world market , a position which bad become exposed with the dismantling of the imperial trade preferences and the progressive liberalisation of world trade after Bretton Woods . |
| 24 | Rain was trying to soothe the old woman . |
| 25 | Although he undoubtedly did not see it as such , what Jesus Christ was really doing was fighting to uphold the Second Choice as specified in this book . |
| 26 | So , unlike most companies , IBM can guarantee that a new concept is going to reach the entire management population within a year — and IBMers are sufficiently motivated to want to catch up if they hear there is something new coming . |
| 27 | In this sense the present conflict is going to underscore the greatest danger of any strategy that implies a substitution of firepower for manpower — the risk that the demobilisation day will arrive but the new weapons will not : weapons like the new multiple-launch rocket system that the British army was originally scheduled to start receiving in 1984 . |
| 28 | It was a bare room without a carpet , and in it , he and the Adjutant were trying to conceal the real terror they were feeling . |
| 29 | The British consul-general in Seoul thought that Soviet suspicion of the anti-trusteeship groups was understandable enough and that both sides in the Joint Commission were jockeying to gain the best tactical place before the breakdown of talks ; neither wished to appear responsible for precipitating the collapse . |
| 30 | But Apple is going to make the loudest splash . |