Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , they do seem to stress the way the changes in democratic practices were merely responding to the need to adapt the US model to Japanese values as though there were a collectively agreed set of values to call upon . |
| 2 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 3 | But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then |
| 4 | The widespread implications of the Famine were already coming to the surface . |
| 5 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 6 | Barriers and handicaps were always contributing to the alienation he bemoaned and yet instinctively courted . |
| 7 | Of course not ; at that stage , they were still clinging to the poll tax . |
| 8 | Some of the casualties had small circulations , but by the spring papers with an average circulation of about 50,000 copies were also going to the wall . |
| 9 | But quite different ideas were also contributing to the formation of modern sociology . |
| 10 | They were now tending to the Frenchman as he lay on the ground . |
| 11 | There was a newsflash at nine to say that the rescue party had reached the injured man and were now returning to the surface , and then nothing until almost midnight . |
| 12 | Italians were now coming to the fore in car racing thanks to Alfa , and Nuvolari joined the team as the man to spearhead their attack on the German manufacturers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | AFTER a weekend of hard talking between Michael Knighton and Martin Edwards , the Manchester United chairman , the 37-year-old property developer 's advisers were publicly sticking to the line last night that his £20m take-over bid for the club was ready to proceed . |