Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as yet we 've not had an announcement on those , what those conditions are attaching to the use of the , of the grant . |
| 2 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 3 | Be punctual , pay attention to what you wear , be aware of how others are reacting to the signals you are sending out . |
| 4 | As the factors associated with the presence of these hypersensitive sites are not limiting , recent advances in in vitro footprinting ( 61 ) should permit the dissection of which particular proteins are binding to the DH site sequences indicated in this work . |
| 5 | My shoes are sticking to the floor . |
| 6 | I 'm used to taking like his lips are sticking to the window ! |
| 7 | A month afterwards the teams will be sent out to discover whether retailers are sticking to the letter of the law . |
| 8 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 9 | Increasingly records managers are contributing to the system specification . |
| 10 | Group members should not only feel that they are contributing to the life of the group , but that their participation is important . |
| 11 | Inevitably there are underlying social complexities , such as land tenure and population growth , which are contributing to the problem but there is also evidence , from locations within the drainage basin where conservation measures are being introduced , that terracing and contour farming can not only reduce the risk of erosion but also increase productivity . |
| 12 | Could you tell me how people outside Kuwait from that country are contributing to the war effort . |
| 13 | We all , most of us , drive cars , you know , in that sense is there some sense of guilt around that in some way we are contributing to the war . |
| 14 | An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths . |
| 15 | In Imperial Gothic he should have been praying to the God-Emperor for help . |
| 16 | I am returning to the UK later this year ( I will be living in Hertfordshire ) , having spent six years abroad because of my husband 's employment . |
| 17 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 18 | I am praying to the God of Laughter for unconditional mercy . |
| 19 | Can there be a more telling difference between the day when the CBI has confirmed the depth of the recession , unemployment is rising faster than in any other European country , we have a training and skills crisis , which the Government are making worse daily , and the fact that the Conservatives are returning to the agenda of the 1970s because they have no answers to the problems of the 1990s ? |
| 20 | Although passengers are returning to the air — numbers carried by BA rose 7.3 per cent to 6.18 million in the quarter — the increase is not matching the rise in BA 's capacity , which jumped 11 per cent over the same period . |
| 21 | Allister Hutton , Mike Gratton and Veronique Marot are returning to the course which brought them victory in the eighties and they 'll be joined by Berlin Marathon winner Steve Brace , who is using the London as part of his preparation for Barcelona . |
| 22 | The planes are returning to the United States , although F-One-Eleven fighter bombers are staying on . |
| 23 | The King and Queen ( who like very special and unusual food ) are returning to the Castle . |
| 24 | Prism has worked with a very wide variety of groups including the elderly , people with learning difficulties or physical handicap , those recovering from mental illness and those who care for and enable groups who are returning to the community . |
| 25 | This has indeed been happening to the USA , and much of the capital funds moving to the USA have come from Japan . |
| 26 | Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger . |
| 27 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 28 | Now , while this had been happening to the fisherman , his poor dumb wife was left alone in the lonely hut . |
| 29 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 30 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |