Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] is [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is in Britain , however , that loyalist violence is really damaging to the cause to which it is presumably dedicated . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The industrialised world is also looking to developments in technology to help it out of materials shortages — and China may lend a hand too |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Policing an rural area is always going to be difficult . |
| 9 | In some of these , initial confrontation is now leading to constructive dialogue with local authority officials . |
| 10 | And in turn , the new University is also listening to the fears of it 's future workforce . |
| 11 | Furthermore , expenditure in future financial years is now going to be difficult . |
| 12 | I 'll drop in on the Colonel , and tell him his pretty young secretary is just dying to be bummed ! ’ |
| 13 | The provision of opportunities here for introducing and monitoring new materials is now beginning to be realised and opens very exciting possibilities . |
| 14 | But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts , one social , one intellectual . |
| 15 | Normal weather is now returning to Australia , and the forthcoming monsoon is expected to bring much-needed rainfall to India later in the year . |
| 16 | The local community is still coming to terms with the loss of the Trident contract four months ago . |