Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside demands for increased professional autonomy for teachers , their professional organizations were also pressing to be included in the education decision-making processes . |
| 2 | More Jews were now emigrating to Israel because of US restrictions on their immigration [ see p. 37094 ; for controversy over increased Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel in early 1990 see p. 37304 ] . |
| 3 | Two men who had come in to quaff down great glasses of cidre were now returning to their scythes in a field opposite , to join a line of sodden reapers there . |
| 4 | He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more . |
| 5 | Her eyes were rapidly adjusting to such tones . |
| 6 | Pushers were already selling to children and crime would soar as addicts sought money for drugs . |
| 7 | There were reports that some ministers , less optimistic in the face of evidence that a number of her supporters were already defecting to Heseltine , were seeking to stabilise the situation by holding out the prospect that Mrs Thatcher might retire voluntarily in the spring , making an orderly succession possible then . |
| 8 | And erm the youngsters were n't objecting to their music . |
| 9 | ‘ Miss Fanshawe , this girl clearly could not have been a friend or neighbour at Eastover whom your parents were simply driving to London . |
| 10 | If Childebert and Chlothar were indeed adding to the first sixty-five , or even the first seventy-eight , clauses of Lex Salica , then the first Merovingian code can be dated before 511 . |
| 11 | His earlier much-fabled ‘ ruthless determination ’ and fanatical single-mindedness were now becoming to be regarded as a major liability , and the command to the 6th Army to fight to the last man was seen as its fateful demonstration . |
| 12 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 13 | I fear that the courts sorely missed assistance from academic lawyers specialising in this branch of the law ; but the law faculties in our universities were only beginning to be established towards the end of the 19th century . |
| 14 | He told arts correspondents on 6 May that while they had created an expectation of radical reform of the Arts Council , his team were not going to ‘ rush their fences ’ . |
| 15 | There was quite a lot pressure and half the team were n't listening to what Ian was saying at that so |
| 16 | Italians were now coming to the fore in car racing thanks to Alfa , and Nuvolari joined the team as the man to spearhead their attack on the German manufacturers . |
| 17 | A spokesman for the Northern Polar Institute claimed that nuclear tests on the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya were also contributing to the seals ' deaths . |
| 18 | But quite different ideas were also contributing to the formation of modern sociology . |
| 19 | The CML disputed that lenders had in recent years relied on the availability of cover under the Compensation and Indemnity Funds to relax their own business practices , and claimed that lenders were largely responding to public demands for more streamlined conveyancing procedures . |
| 20 | These questions were utterly demoralising to the vassals of the late Emperor , and were to cause debate and confusion for many years to come . |
| 21 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 22 | Things were n't going to be too bad , he decided . |
| 23 | But from the beginning I sensed that things were n't going to be easy , not for any of us . |
| 24 | Perhaps things were n't going to be so bad after all . |
| 25 | At Mrs Parvis 's , things were often pretending to be other things , like Mrs Parvis saying one thing when she meant another , things were hiding other things , like scraps of rug concealing cracks , white glass windows concealing sick children . |
| 26 | Indeed , by the outbreak of World War II , there is considerable evidence that working class families were not responding to the call by the Royal Commission on Population and policy makers for larger families ( a result of anxiety regarding the dramatic decline in the birth rate during the 1930s ) . |
| 27 | She supposed the tensions and upsets of the day were finally getting to her . |
| 28 | The widespread implications of the Famine were already coming to the surface . |
| 29 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 30 | Although the stark trees were just beginning to be in leaf , and familiarity had lessened the menacing air of the place , Theda still found herself uncomfortable within it . |