Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Things like this are always happening to me , " she said , and shrugged put her elbows on the sill of the window and smiled down at him . |
| 2 | Uncertain domestic currency values in instances like this are always going to be present . |
| 3 | So far the shopkeepers are surviving , because demand is so great , but few are yet admitting to doing anything other than breaking even . |
| 4 | Doubtless this is partly owing to echoes of the ending of Love 's Labours Lost , and also of Ambrose Philips 's ‘ Winter Piece ’ . |
| 5 | This is already starting to ‘ gloss up ’ with use , giving both these guitars a friendly , used feel after only a couple of days ' playing . |
| 6 | Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening . |
| 7 | The ‘ whistlation ’ lasted four days , as the pioneer had to repeat himself 808 million times , until someone realised he was whistling the words , ‘ this is just going to be a short whistle because I have very sore throat . ’ |
| 8 | This is my first letter to this magnificent mailing networky thing ( except it is'nt really because i had one sent back the other day , but that s another story ) This is also going to be my last for a while as I 'm going back home to newcastle tomorrow . |
| 9 | Art dealers are looking for quality work and if the dispirited pastiches I came across in the East End are representative of the best on offer this is clearly going to be an increasingly difficult task . |
| 10 | This is never going to work , Charles was thinking , so what is the point of worrying about it ? |
| 11 | That 's right , erm , I can save it with the row on the other files , but the total is now on row twenty six , but this is still referring to the same cells , C twenty five . |
| 12 | I think : this is definitely going to be easy . |
| 13 | This is now leading to an increase in the availability of public sector land for development by the private sector , which is complemented by policies providing financial incentives such as Derelict Land Grant and the Urban Development Grant . |
| 14 | Similar damage is done by repeated emotional abuse , and I believe that the true damage done by this is only beginning to be seen . |
| 15 | This was still overmanning to a considerable degree by world standards . |
| 16 | This was always going to be a difficult match for Hammer to win , as they were up against a ‘ Mill side eager to take the trophy for the first time since 1974 . |
| 17 | If only because of Scotland , this was always going to be an election not only about who governs Britain , but how Britain is to be governed . |
| 18 | With the ‘ Stiffs ’ only able to field ten men , including Reg Pybus , this was always going to be a tough game . |
| 19 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 20 | Damn her own voice for shaking , but she had known this was never going to be easy . |
| 21 | This was never going to work ! |
| 22 | She still could n't quite believe that all this was actually happening to her . |
| 23 | I had managed to convince myself that , after a lifetime of teaching at university level , this was all going to be painfully easy . |
| 24 | Richards made another 88 , Greenidge and Kallicharran got fifties and 246 was clearly going to be hard for England to beat . |
| 25 | Number 47 was either talking to you or the car ; he was incapable of socializing what he felt about the Mitsubishi . |
| 26 | Some of these are already leading to the introduction of modular courses in arts subjects , as well as cross-arts initiatives . |
| 27 | After we finished that poem , late in the evening of 2 November , we went walking through the streets of Salamanca for most of the night , for the poem had persuaded us that something remarkable was really happening to us , that some kind of poetic grace had been bestowed upon us . |
| 28 | But , yeah we did cos we 'll all be there going to the cinema , but we could n't get in . |
| 29 | The Smiths as far as I was concerned were obviously going to be massive , what-they-now-are . |
| 30 | Harrow , from Courage League Middlesex 1 are also coming to North America in May for a Centenary tour that includes matches against Kats , in Vancouver , Port Alberni , on the Island , and Old Puget Sound Beach , in Seattle . |