Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] is [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That 's starting to take er effect and is actually beginning to er , to pay off . |
| 3 | The company that bottles the water says it 's acting completely within the law and is simply responding to customer demand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |