Example sentences of "is [adv] [v-ing] to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wait until September before she starts another novel is mostly owing to her publicity commitments . |
| 2 | To the end , he is merely listening to his subjects , respecting without judging them and keeping us , as readers , flush against them , indulging in their foibles and sharing their fantasies . |
| 3 | Taking pills or powders for headaches and stomach upsets is only adding to your system 's toxicity . |
| 4 | Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening . |
| 5 | The government is still sticking to its account , which names 10 dead and a further 37 detained . |
| 6 | PX/Iris GL is based upon version 4.0 of SGI 's environment and will migrate to version 5.0 reference implementations — with the OpenGL programming interface — which SGI is now delivering to its OEMs . |
| 7 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 8 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 9 | Had the besweatered Pakistanis held their catches there is no knowing to what depths of despair England might have sunk that evening . |
| 10 | The epoch when the writer photographed the life about him with the mechanics of words redolent of the daguerrotype , is happily drawing to its close . |