Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investment trusts are in fact very active in the market for new issues of shares and in this respect are channelling funds to ultimate borrowers . |
| 2 | Sixteen US states are allowing convicts to be hired for telemarketing , prompting renewed calls for the curbing of telesales to the home . |
| 3 | A group of venture scouts has been bringing smiles to the faces of children from refugee camps in Bosnia . |
| 4 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 5 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 6 | Critics are demanding changes to 2 important pieces of legislation … the Children Act of 1989 and the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 , which forced the police to hand over to social services all offenders under the age of 15 once they 've been arrested and charged . |
| 7 | Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been trialing approaches to school internal evaluation through the Catholic Education Commission project : ‘ The Nature of the Catholic School ’ . |
| 8 | The sharp upturn indicates a great improvement in SCOTVEC 's ability to ‘ turn around ’ results ; it also indicates that more centres are returning results to SCOTVEC as early as possible . |
| 9 | I 've been writing cheques to Rob Thomas . |
| 10 | Meantime , the Parents ' Action Committee had been writing letters to Councillors as well . |
| 11 | The children have been writing letters to their MP John Patten . |
| 12 | The university and polytechnic librarians seem to be on surer ground when they are producing guides on literature search strategies , or guides to the preparation of bibliographical references or guides to the preparation of projects and theses : that is , when they are writing guides to library and information techniques . |
| 13 | The HCIMA moderators are responsible to the Association , through the Education and Development Committee , for maintaining standards , for interpreting and implementing HCIMA assessment and examination regulations and for ensuring that centres are operating programmes to the required standard . |
| 14 | They may after all have been passing secrets to Soviet agents . |
| 15 | Discovering that the man who has been passing threats to me is the mighty Tod Richardson will not help me sleep peacefully in my bed . |
| 16 | Police are seeking witnesses to the accident on the B1257 at Clay Bank , near Chop Gate . |
| 17 | Police do n't believe the abduction 's linked with a string of of sex attacks in Milton Keynes which they 're still investigating , but they are warning women to be on their guard . |
| 18 | Police are warning farmers to be on their guard . |
| 19 | POLICE are warning residents to be on their guard after two men tricked a pensioner out of several hundred pounds . |
| 20 | Finally , local trading standards officials in Oxfordshire are urging parents to be on their guard against a children 's chemistry set containing a potentially lethal substance . |
| 21 | Because of strong demand , all companies are urging delegates to book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment . |
| 22 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 23 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 24 | Do you find tha that that you 're you 're bringing traditions to people ? |
| 25 | We 're training girls to be people , as we 're training boys to be people . |
| 26 | We 're training girls to be people , as we 're training boys to be people . |
| 27 | You know really screaming and getting raged really resentful and then , you know , back knows ultimately you 're wanting parents to side with us . |
| 28 | We 've made an assessment on the single reports , yeah and we 're asking members to erm , give us guidance on the principles it and your response in order to , to get a response to the regional health authority by this Friday . |
| 29 | because again as adults we realize that if every we ask a question to the trainer you 're asking questions to him and they keep answering them , what does it mean we can do as trainees ? |
| 30 | Everybody make sure you cross out item number eleven because I ; m not giving you any advance notice of a of questions and if I was it certainly would n't be that one , right , so make sure you cross it out and make sure you tell your friends who you 're giving copies to that number eleven does n't apply . |