Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes every day and I can assure you that your cousin who is helping Germany to victory with her work will receive them very quickly . ’ |
| 2 | A " biosociety " says Professor A. Behrens , a prominent member of the project , " is one that should be fully aware of the problems of life in all its forms and of a balanced " input/output " in energy and materials … [ and ] is using biotechnology to an optimal extent in order to guarantee a proper balance between human needs ( partially represented by industrial needs ) , natural resources , and the environment " ( Oberursal , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | It 's all in response to the drought that 's bringing Africa to its knees . |
| 4 | A case now before America 's Supreme Court is drawing attention to such bias . |
| 5 | ‘ . ’ He is drawing attention to the fact that ‘ I know ’ is sometimes used by a speaker to commit himself to the truth of what he proceeds to say . |
| 6 | For the present exhibition , Thompson is drawing attention to the decade which witnessed the maturity of Minimalism and the emergence of Conceptual Art . |
| 7 | What Donaldson is drawing attention to is that the experimental context involves a complicated and subtle set of interactions between what is presented , said , and done by the adult . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend is drawing attention to an important point about the underlying rate of inflation . |
| 9 | Japan Computer Corp is forecasting sales to be up this year by 35% , for total revenues of $23m . |
| 10 | Top London hairdresser Charles Worthington ( tel : 071–831 5303 ) is suggesting setting to more and more clients who want a different look for special occasions . |
| 11 | Furthermore , MailSort , the Post Office 's new bulk mailing rebate scheme which will come into full use in the Summer of '89 , is bringing computerisation to the direct marketing industry because it just is n't practical to sort mail by hand into thousands of individual postcodes . |
| 12 | However , the theme which deserves more attention is the basic argument of the article : the author is claiming not to be prejudiced and is attributing prejudice to those who oppose the National Front . |
| 13 | The play , which Waterhouse adapted with Willis Hall , had the distinct dramatic disadvantage of confining Billy 's clamouring imagination to a drab , realistic setting . |
| 14 | Thus , anger may militate against sexual satisfaction in oneself or prevent one 's allowing satisfaction to a partner by its own effect ; or the guilt underlying anger may similarly impede love-making/relationships ; or sexual pleasure may promote guilt which evinces itself as anger which … |
| 15 | The first is gaining access to the community in question . |
| 16 | ‘ We know what 's happening day to day , ’ explains Liz . |
| 17 | At another place a wife is bidding good-bye to a husband whom duty calls hence . |
| 18 | As a result , plans were laid for Gould to join Sturt 's surveying expedition to the Murray River later that year . |
| 19 | ‘ Ah 's takin' Luney to the bread man . |
| 20 | The girl is looking off-screen to the right , so she has been placed to the left of the frame to give her ‘ looking room ’ . |
| 21 | In Oxfordshire on the A forty three at Weston on the Green , there are lane closures there , that 's between Bicester and Banbury , and on the A forty one London Road , Bicester , there 's some resurfacing work taking place , and that 's causing restrictions to traffic going both ways . |
| 22 | the M sixty two in west Yorkshire near junction twenty nine , the loft house interchange , there are various roadworks and lane restrictions on the slip roads there , and that 's causing traffic to be slow moving around that junction at the moment . |
| 23 | Pressure for the conversion or redevelopment of historic houses and estates in financial difficulties has grown in recent years and is causing concern to those wishing to preserve the traditional countryside . |
| 24 | The loss is causing concern to Moscow doctors , who have warned that without the forest , the city 's air pollution problems will increase . |
| 25 | Psycho-sexual specialists agree that when one partner has a fetish which is causing unhappiness to the other , the situation has become pathological . |
| 26 | A skeletal butler is serving dinner to a seated group of pig-headed mutants , who sit slavering at their table while the butler rolls the intestines of a living , writhing man around a hooked serving fork and serves them , still steaming to the bestial dinner guests . |
| 27 | Some have already been formed at Lockerbie , Wigtown and Eskdalemuir but Scotland 's smallest police force is urging others to the same . |
| 28 | However , Washington is urging exiles to ‘ interest the media ’ , acknowledging privately that ‘ it is pretty clear that whatever we do will have no impact on the Banda government . ’ |
| 29 | Tina Jones , 35 , who was tricked into parting with a Vauxhall Cavalier , is urging people to be vigilant and careful when selling their cars . |
| 30 | Drawing with Iran and getting beat by Costa Rica are a great enough indignity , but coping with the knowledge that star players were on the verge of assaulting a policeman with a Hush Puppy is pushing loyalty to the limits . |