Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should apologize for canned soup , but I spent so long talking to Stanley this morning |
| 2 | It was assumed by some that profitability entailed selling products to new customers , but this is not necessarily so according to Ken Wilkie , the newly appointed chief executive at IBM 's UK Havant plant . |
| 3 | Some sort of dress rehearsal was clearly required for the Cypriot police officers who were only just coming to grips with wiretap technology , and , right on cue , one of Hurley 's informants passed the word that Abou Daod , a Lebanese drugs trafficker , was coming to Cyprus to set up a deal . |
| 4 | Lord John had hoped that his friend would accompany him , but he sensed how much Manvell despised him for so easily surrendering to Sharpe 's threat . |
| 5 | But they , like the third Limerick club dominating the league — Young Munster — are only gradually coming to terms with the demands for 15-man attacking play . |
| 6 | Will he please take the most urgent steps to correct that , because it is not only deeply damaging to companies in my constituency but harmful to the image of the Community ? |
| 7 | Well we 'll go down now going to dinner , we 're going to dinner with him . |
| 8 | It is well known that the Princess wanted ‘ out ’ of the Royal Family , but to her fellow passengers it was also clear she is only now coming to terms with the fact that she really is out — and quite alone . |
| 9 | Ask Americans today who are only now coming to terms with the gross exploitation of native Indians and natural resources , which their forefathers accomplished in the name of ‘ progress ’ . |
| 10 | Some of the answers are only now coming to light as we find out more about the structures of the proteins that go to make up living cells themselves . |
| 11 | The full impact of last Thursday 's freak storm in Llandudno , Conwy and the surrounding areas is only now coming to light and it could be several months before some of the 500 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return . |
| 12 | Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it . |
| 13 | The rise in wages was therefore not basically damaging to profitability . |
| 14 | The spark that arises between Vronsky and Anna proves not only damaging to Karenin ( Anna 's husband ) but also to the young Kitty Shcherbatsky , who seeing Vronsky as a possible suitor , was in love with him . |
| 15 | As J. K. Galbraith ( 1979 ) has pointed out the adman actually creates markets and implants ‘ needs ’ in people ; he is not merely responding to consumer demand . |
| 16 | But if you 're just generally talking to people and not actually asking anything of them , |
| 17 | The preamble further asserts that the company are making ‘ considerable progress ’ on the remaining portion of the main line between Bishop 's Castle and the Cambrian , which is not exactly according to fact , in as far as the term ‘ considerable progress ’ is popularly understood . |
| 18 | Er so you might be best just sticking to people who are the s around the same age you know eighteen to twenty two or something . |
| 19 | The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general . |
| 20 | For an eleven year old schoolgirl , it 's not easy coming to terms with having a plastic eye . |
| 21 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 22 | Is growing up just about getting to grips with your manhood ? |
| 23 | Let's face it , negotiation is n't just about talking to customers and suppliers . |
| 24 | I suppose it 's just about falling to pieces . |
| 25 | and things are just about going to plan |
| 26 | Interviewers are bound to seek out co-operative people , those who are not very busy and so on , thus inevitably leading to biases . |
| 27 | Then before she could stop herself she asked : ‘ You 're not really going to Australia are you , Harriet ? ’ |
| 28 | Both the group and the person himself are necessary for the process ; the epic poet is actively creative and not passively responding to group pressures . |
| 29 | Hopefully we can get away with that room Jane with just maybe having to emulsion it |
| 30 | Already wise to the ways of two of the most notoriously sharkish industries , TV and pop , Kylie was not however going to Hollywood with her eyes closed . |