Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people who work with those struggling to find somewhere to live put part of the blame for homelessness on the right to buy scheme . |
| 2 | It manages tasks by setting deadlines for their completion , instead of using interrupts simply to start them going . |
| 3 | Most walkers would probably agree that the Langdale Pikes are Lakeland 's finest miniature hills — shapely and aloof , especially Pike o'Stickle ( 709m ) , and certainly there are enough quality approach walks and challenging scrambles here to satisfy the most discerning of mountain walkers . |
| 4 | Union leaders have been meeting to discuss how to cope with the threat of fifteen thousand redundancies . |
| 5 | Heavy , woollen — perhaps even wooden — tailoring with over-scaled collars and sleeve detailing opened up to reveal ghastly print linings . |
| 6 | Last night the people who live and work round Rutland Water held a protest meeting to decide how to tackle this threat to their health and their jobs . |
| 7 | The appointment of new and conservative judges in the later 1980s was seen as posing a threat to the basic rights enunciated in Roe , yet in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services ( 1989 ) and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey ( 1992 ) the court condoned further restrictions being placed by the states on the circumstances under which women could obtain abortions , while refusing to decide directly to reverse the principles in Roe . |
| 8 | Women wanting to learn how to play golf or to improve their game can receive instruction from a new video featuring Diane Barnard , one of Europe 's top players . |
| 9 | It 's essential that we we understand this orbiting bit because that makes it makes the seasons which we 're going to go on to do . |
| 10 | Sorry I was going to go down to get an authorization from Age Concern , I missed the first bit , but erm if resources are allowed for this work , would it not be better to aim them at priority areas , and not wards , I mean , in other words , to put it to the areas that needed most . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't think that meant you were going to pretend not to know me ! ’ |
| 12 | Are you coming Christopher or are you going to sit here to have your meal ? |
| 13 | You will look after the fast buck merchants who are waiting to come in to steal and cheat and to deal in a shoddy , grasping way with bus companies that have been made successful by the local authorities . " |
| 14 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 15 | staying longer and she 's going to come here to tell well you know the reality ! |
| 16 | But who 's going to come out to see a nonentity like you ? |
| 17 | I got some very new insights , in fact I 'm going to look up to see whether Bloom 's reflections on the eunuchs in the erm church were written in the same colour as some passages in Molly Bloom 's soliloquy . |
| 18 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 19 | Yes , we are the Tourist Boards , the National Tourist Boards which include Scotland and Ireland ( northern Ireland ) and Wales have combined together , and we are going to combine together to produce a high profile advertising and marketing campaign to encourage millions of holidaymakers to make nineteen ninety one the summer to explore Britain erm and in a concentrated peak period from the twenty third of March to the twenty eighth of April over eighty five per cent of the U K's adult population will be continuously exposed to the message ‘ Britain 's Great ’ , and I think they will hear it on radio , they will see it on T V , there will large colour supplements and four page advertisements in every popular national newspaper from the Sunday Times to the Sun . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 21 | Who now is going to kick sweetly to touch fifty or sixty metres when there 's a danger of a quick throw against you ? |
| 22 | Preparation for day care transport was sometimes an important role because , if left to themselves clients might either not be ready in time , or might be ready too soon and while waiting go out to do something else ( forgetting that transport was due ) ; in either case they would consequently miss their transport and therefore their day care . |
| 23 | Resigned to the fact that she was n't going to get back to sleep , she pulled on her robe and went downstairs . |
| 24 | I am not going to attempt today to foresee what that price will be . |
| 25 | Nerina is going to stay on to take her degree . ’ |
| 26 | He awaited a reply eagerly and was going to drop in to see her on his next leave . |
| 27 | ‘ When Masklin comes back , he 's going to have somewhere to come back to . ’ |
| 28 | Yes I was going to say about to try and start later in the morning if that would suit people . |
| 29 | We 're going to need tomorrow to tape . |
| 30 | But the declaration is going to take longer to work out than the Japanese had hoped . |