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

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1 It is already leading to a resumption or the land improvement work carried out by the crofters in the sixties , with the help of the College of Agriculture and the Crofters Commission , working closely together .
2 Individual greed dominates Thatcher 's ideology , but there are signs that her crusade is gradually grinding to a halt .
3 Crucially for Christianity , that great Puritan era of the Reformation is also drawing to a close .
4 The UC 's Mountainbike league is also coming to a close with the final event at Rostrevor on Sunday .
5 The shattered hovels which half the poor in this kingdom are obliged to put up with , is truly affecting to a heart fraught with humanity .
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