Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may seem like an odd question but there is quite some difference between eating styles , especially eating related to what is often viewed as ‘ naughty ’ food . |
| 2 | Postponing payment and so becoming indebted to business partners was common , so it is possible to talk of debt being a form of credit . |
| 3 | Yet as the ‘ butcher of Beijing ’ who called in the troops to restore order , Mr Deng was merely remaining true to his political vision and concern for party power . |
| 4 | Very often , when I take a walk along the river in the close season and see a shoal of chub sliding in and out of the streamer weed , or merely lying near to the surface , ready to suck in a floating insect , I imagine I have a rod with me and I want to catch one of those chub . |
| 5 | When the war ended , the political journeys of Jinnah , Nehru — and very soon also Aung San and Nu — were obviously getting near to their hoped-for destination . |
| 6 | ‘ It is bad enough doing that to the uninitiated , but to do it to the Secretary of State is really beyond the pale — it 's quite pathetic . ’ |
| 7 | The balance of required diagnostic skills and experience within the engineering community is constantly changing due to staff retirement and losses to competitors . |
| 8 | ‘ Thanks , ’ Shiona nodded , suddenly feeling awkward to be alone in his company without a third person . |
| 9 | This figure is higher than the average sea level rise calculated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change because the east side of England is already slowly sinking due to geological movements . |
| 10 | It is already proving beneficial to many churches , and the Commission has urged earlier in this Report that those churches which have nut taken advantage of it should do so . |
| 11 | She registered with vague surprise that she was somehow becoming acclimatised to the unsettling feel of his hands on her body … |
| 12 | Very Cocteau , said Wilkie , and Alexander buttoned his head very firmly into his Orphic helmet , thus becoming deaf to Frederica 's brightness and absurd to look at , globular white anonymity above the beautiful , clean , white-clothed , untouchable long body . |
| 13 | The output is loaded by a 10kΩ resistor to avoid the following circuitry seeing a high impedance when the switch is open , thus becoming susceptible to interference or hum pickup . |
| 14 | as has been mentioned , which has been something that often has been composed by women and transmitted by women , and there 's recently been an anthology published of Scottish womens poetry , I think that 's a tradition and is perhaps related to second point , the fact that the material 's only just becoming available to us . |
| 15 | Although it is early days and the team will not be reporting back until March , what is already becoming clear to it is that , unless small firms are encouraged to continue training chartered accountants , the smaller end of the profession may not have a future at all . |
| 16 | It seemed to flow from a weaker to a stronger system , thus acting contrary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 17 | Most people simply do n't make enough time to have physical time together , even it it 's just lying next to each other cuddling . ’ |
| 18 | This would normally push up her heart rate but with her pulse already racing due to the alcohol , dancing and general party excitement the increase is not as noticeable as normal . |
| 19 | They were already getting used to the fact that they were very popular . |
| 20 | It was not a fun place any more and doors were already slamming shut to the hundreds of young hopefuls hanging around outside the studio gates about the time when Nicholson began his search for work . |
| 21 | They lived in drying-out river beds , thus getting used to deoxygenating environs . |
| 22 | She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding . |
| 23 | At the time of his appointment to PFF , the Command was just getting used to GEE , thought originally to be a bombing aid but really at best an aid to navigation . |
| 24 | Just getting used to this damn er choke again |
| 25 | " I 'm just saying this to you so that you can be prepared . " |
| 26 | Depositors are already receiving next to nothing in interest on a large chunk of their bank balances . |
| 27 | Tough love should be kind , gentle and understanding to both the family member and the primary sufferer , while nonetheless allowing each to be fully responsible for his or her own feelings and behaviour and for taking the full consequences of all choices of individual action . |
| 28 | We were provided , therefore , with as broad a range of contacts as is possible within one station ( although this breadth does not approach that which comes from survey research ) while still becoming close to one section , as is necessary in ethnographic research . |
| 29 | But it was quickly becoming clear to all working on the film that Vivien was unwell . |
| 30 | Instead , they should be able to participate in the community of autonomous adults as equal members engaged in the sharing of labour , food , and speech without ever becoming indebted to other specific individuals . |