Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean is it going to be a case that market values are actually going to work to our advantage ? |
| 2 | and she said er , and I said , I said Dave said you were a bloody fool to go up there , you let mother talk you into going , Terry had a job here , he , alright you had your house , you had your ups and downs , it was a bit small , you persevere with it , I said your kids are nearly going to school all of them , so I said , you do n't need a big house |
| 3 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 4 | In the heart of the City , one of the most adventurous projects in many decades is now coming to completion . |
| 5 | An average of 75% of leavers was now proceeding to University . |
| 6 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 7 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 8 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 9 | The remainder of these unfortunates were already contributing to family incomes as labourers , shop boys , glovers , house-servants , rag collectors and so on . |
| 10 | Alternatively , if a firm made its issue thinking share prices were indeed going to rocket ( for that is what the low yields implied ) , then it could be worth its while to take the cash and invest it back into equities or other financial instruments . |
| 11 | The police are increasingly looking to technology — and to information technology in particular — to help them combat increasing crime . |
| 12 | RIGHT now , thoughts are inevitably turning to home heating , and the Coal Advisory Service says for the majority of homes in the province , that means solid fuel |
| 13 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 14 | Air quality manager Peter Shawcross said the results were currently being examined and evaluated and that interesting facts were already coming to light . |