Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [be] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.

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1 The second observation is that learning is a " total " event in that is involves the entire person. , The third and most characteristic observation is that a person is constantly responding to innumerable influences , a few of which are conscious and rational , but most of which are either non-conscious or non-rational , or both .
2 A man with a past was always going to be more worth knowing that a man without one .
3 So big a man is never going to be exactly nippy , but he is not slow and not without ball-sense .
4 In the end … not getting into a skid is always going to be better than having to cope with one .
5 In both living and in dramatic playing a participant is continually accommodating to an image of himself as an object in order to communicate with others .
6 Er er I d I do n't think that we as a panel are necessarily going to ever and and and it may not be our role in fact to do so , to come to a judgement on it , but I would have thought as a matter of common sense , and common agreement , that there should be some er way in which the various parties would come together on the basic demographic statistics and would certainly accept that certain basic projections should be used i in looking forward .
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