Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in Britain , however , that loyalist violence is really damaging to the cause to which it is presumably dedicated . |
| 2 | The social chapter was always going to be the item over which the opposition forces would coalesce . |
| 3 | The hon. Lady was probably referring to cuts in regional development grants , which reflected a move away from automatic grants which went into loss-making nationalised industries . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , as late as the 1740s , the British government was still contributing to the cost of housing the now permanent Russian representatives in London at a rate proportional to their diplomatic rank — £200 a year for ministers-resident , £400 for envoys or ambassadors . |
| 5 | As before , the old man was slow coming to the door , but this time she was ready for him . |
| 6 | Your attention to detail will pay off too — the elegant Brot Mirophar non-mistical optical light mirror is certainly proving to the chic-est bathroom accessory . |
| 7 | His earlier much-fabled ‘ ruthless determination ’ and fanatical single-mindedness were now becoming to be regarded as a major liability , and the command to the 6th Army to fight to the last man was seen as its fateful demonstration . |
| 8 | I would prefer to see a straight Rocky-Strachan swap ( as I expected last year ) but I guess the wee man is still playing to well for this . |
| 9 | Breaking through , making it to the top and finding real success is never going to be easy , despite the well-voiced criticism of pop music being ‘ tuneless rubbish ’ . |
| 10 | The industrialised world is also looking to developments in technology to help it out of materials shortages — and China may lend a hand too |
| 11 | The dug-up space was later going to be filled with organic wastes and turned into a vegetable patch . |
| 12 | White Face was presumably trusting to his second compartment , ‘ the part that never hatched ’ , to see him along his course . |
| 13 | As the terrible inevitability of extinction looms ever closer for the baiji and Indus River dolphin , the international community is belatedly responding to the conservation challenge . |
| 14 | China 's existing network is already aiming to more than treble in size to 1m lines this year , but this still represents only about five or six phones per 100 people . |
| 15 | Policing an rural area is always going to be difficult . |
| 16 | In some of these , initial confrontation is now leading to constructive dialogue with local authority officials . |
| 17 | Yeah I mean me I it may be inappropriate at this moment in time to say we will do it now because of obvious reasons but prior to the recession it was an ongoing thing that the the board were in through the general manager were actually writing to many companies . |
| 18 | By now the whole of downtown Morpork was alight , and the richer and worthier citizens of Ankh on the far bank were bravely responding to the situation by feverishly demolishing the bridges . |
| 19 | As her brother Charles says : ‘ Suddenly the insignificant ugly duckling was obviously going to be a swan . ’ |
| 20 | The broad thoroughfare was now corning to life . |
| 21 | And in turn , the new University is also listening to the fears of it 's future workforce . |
| 22 | I 'll drop in on the Colonel , and tell him his pretty young secretary is just dying to be bummed ! ’ |
| 23 | But it would be unwise to assume that the advancing industrialization of the Soviet Union was increasingly leading to a form of politics in which organized groups took a more significant part . |
| 24 | But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts , one social , one intellectual . |
| 25 | Normal weather is now returning to Australia , and the forthcoming monsoon is expected to bring much-needed rainfall to India later in the year . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , by the end of the inter-war period the working class fertility rate was dropping as rapidly as that of the middle class , with the result that the two-child family was fast ceasing to be a middle class phenomenon . |
| 27 | The local community is still coming to terms with the loss of the Trident contract four months ago . |
| 28 | We know , however , that preliminary rumbles of the Hercynian orogeny were already beginning to be heard at the end of Dinantian times . |