Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate ; Northern Electric and carbody manufacturer Vickers Pressings have taken on people recently . |
| 2 | Most self-poisoning patients are reacting to crises in interpersonal relationships . |
| 3 | The narrower the range of comparison , the surer we shall be that the stylistic features we are attributing to Jane Austen are peculiar to her style , rather than to the style of a larger category of writings " which includes hers . |
| 4 | Is that because the report does not substantiate the proposals in the Education ( Schools ) Bill , which is nothing more than English ideology that the Government are transmitting to Wales ? |
| 5 | Not just in harsh action ; increased concern about children is almost always part of a larger concern about people in general , but when horrible things are happening to people it is not unusual to focus on children and try special pleading on their behalf . |
| 6 | We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education . |
| 7 | To teach effectively teachers must therefore be aware of facets of the child 's life which are contributing to tension and disquiet . |
| 8 | Rapidly increasing administrative costs are contributing to reductions in service despite increased expenditure . |
| 9 | Or or catch all scapegoat when there are these other factors involved which are contributing to health problems |
| 10 | Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours . |
| 11 | Julian Hopkins , national director of international relief agency CARE , who travelled with the Mirror team , said : ‘ To see that huge amount of food lying idle in Mogadishu while thousands of babies and young children are starving to death is an outrage . |
| 12 | If you are returning to work after child or relative care , try to ensure that you can earn enough in the remainder of that tax year to take you above the lower earnings limit . |
| 13 | If you are returning to work in your thirties or later , it is very likely that your boss could be younger than you . |
| 14 | ‘ You are returning to France tomorrow , I think you said , Monsieur de Chavigny ? ’ |
| 15 | Commons are scattered throughout the county , and although rights of common are fiercely defended they are rarely exercised , and many commons are returning to woodland . |
| 16 | Later this year the band are returning to London . |
| 17 | " You are returning to London again ? " |
| 18 | As pesticide concentrations in the environment fall , birds of prey are returning to areas of eastern England for the first time in decades . |
| 19 | The Wingfields are returning to England and have asked me to go with them . |
| 20 | The effect on the shrimp population appears to have been catastrophic : fishing boats are returning to Bahrain with only 1 per cent of their pre-war catches . |
| 21 | WIMBLEDON 'S Crazy Gang are returning to Plough Lane , the happy hunting ground they had to leave for safety reasons two years ago . |
| 22 | These distinctions are vitally important : whereas teachers of foreign languages are working with a body of knowledge and skills which is expected to be put to use mainly in employment or during vacations abroad , community language teachers are relating to perceptions of identity , culture , and prejudice as experienced by dynamic sections of the population here in Britain . |
| 23 | Well , even even people who perhaps are not so experienced in doing it in their personal lives can be influenced I think , especially when they are relating to children , to perhaps become more sensitive to that and the children in their care . |
| 24 | As I take this bread and drink this wine , I am affirming to men , and to angels and to demons , that I believe Jesus Christ died for me , and I identify myself with him in his sacrifice for me . |
| 25 | Right hon. and hon. Members are failing to remember in how many criminal trials it happens , often necessarily , that allegations are made by the prosecution or defence which are damaging to persons who are not immediately before the court . |
| 26 | Similarly , workfare might expose people to the stigma and frequent humiliations that are damaging to health . |
| 27 | You had to be ‘ circumspect in identifying where such people that are aspiring to democracy … are … important to us . ’ |
| 28 | Direct flights are operating to Frankfurt from London , East Midlands , Birmingham , Manchester and Glasgow . |
| 29 | I am writing to second her proposal ! ! |
| 30 | However , I am writing to Alan Harlow to state our disappointment ; to point out that we can not continue to pay subscriptions if the grant is not increased ; that we are doing our best to find sponsorship ( I 've written , on my own initiative , to 3 companies who might be willing to help , on environmental grounds ) ; that sponsorship from SNH is pretty unlikely , a ) because they do n't do any core funding , and b ) because the NCC element appears to be dominant there anyway ; that sponsorship from the Sports Council is also unlikely , though we are seeking a meeting with Terry Dowey of SSA as soon as possible . |