Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Microsoft and DEC have been porting NT to Alpha for the last year : conveniently DEC has a facility just a mile away from the Microsoft campus in Belleview , Washington . |
| 2 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 3 | The police are bringing Hassan to court tomorrow too , I think . |
| 4 | Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been trialing approaches to school internal evaluation through the Catholic Education Commission project : ‘ The Nature of the Catholic School ’ . |
| 5 | But legal aid experts argue that low income and capital limits are denying access to justice to increasing numbers of people who can not afford to pay privately . |
| 6 | Pioneers who are applying TQM to hotel and catering operations seem universally delighted with results , both in staff motivation and in customer satisfaction . |
| 7 | The university and polytechnic librarians seem to be on surer ground when they are producing guides on literature search strategies , or guides to the preparation of bibliographical references or guides to the preparation of projects and theses : that is , when they are writing guides to library and information techniques . |
| 8 | Because of strong demand , all companies are urging delegates to book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment . |
| 9 | Ali , it turned out , had been sentencing people to death for years . |
| 10 | You know really screaming and getting raged really resentful and then , you know , back knows ultimately you 're wanting parents to side with us . |
| 11 | Councils , argues Mr Cawley , are being hit by an unenviable double whammy , thanks to the recession and the Government 's response to it : tighter spending assessments and declining revenue income are adding insult to injury , with ordinary people bearing the brunt . |
| 12 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 13 | ‘ People are giving lip-service to security and are hell-bent on therapy above anything else . ’ |
| 14 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
| 15 | For the first time in such talks the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , which in previous weeks had been losing ground to government forces throughout southern Sudan , was represented by two independent delegations : the so-called Torit group led by Col. John Garang , and a splinter group supporting Lam Akol , based at the town of Nasir [ for SPLA split see p. 38426 ] . |
| 16 | Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together . |
| 17 | The Justice Ministry said that Judge Ahmed Taher al-Zawi would be seeking access to evidence held by the British and US legal authorities . |
| 18 | It 's hard to see what on earth the Ingard group would be paying £300,000 to Osnafeld for . |
| 19 | Physicists might be reducing chemistry to physics , but chemists seemed to be reducing biology to chemistry . |
| 20 | Physicists might be reducing chemistry to physics , but chemists seemed to be reducing biology to chemistry . |
| 21 | Oh she 'd been taking Matthew to work . |
| 22 | A spokeswoman said the man had been making door to door calls , asking for donations . |
| 23 | They were kneeling back to back , their buttocks touching , and each with one end of the double-headed dildo still embedded securely in her gaping twat . |
| 24 | On one such occasion , when the head keeper and a young man were leading Joicey to safety , Joicey turned to the youngster and inquired : ‘ Have you the Gaelic , lad , have you the Gaelic ? ’ |
| 25 | A bear had broken loose amongst the stews ; a whore was being whipped outside the gates of St Thomas 's Hospital ; two butchers who had sold putrid meat were riding back to back on some old nag , their hands tied behind them , the rotten offal they had sold fastened tightly under their noses . |
| 26 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 27 | Barbara wished they were talking face to face . |
| 28 | Before I could deliver another , he had grasped my wrist and we were fighting face to face , nearly falling into the fire as we did so . |
| 29 | The attack took place about two miles beyond Johannesburg 's southern suburbs at 7.30am as commuters were streaming to work and mothers were delivering children to school . |
| 30 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |