Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 2 | Generations of gypsies have been travelling to Stow each year . |
| 3 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 4 | It is now accepted that UDR members and RUC officers have been leaking to loyalists . |
| 5 | Elizabethan musicians and dancers have been taking to the streets to publicise a meeting between queens from the sixteenth and twentieth century this weekend . |
| 6 | In the tropical oceans reef building corals have been responding to climatic changes for hundreds of years . |
| 7 | ADVENTURE-seeking Britons have been flocking to Israel for years to sample communal living on a kibbutz . |
| 8 | I 'd like to know who cut the strings of her tennis racket too , the first formers looked at one another , it certainly is queer the way things have been happening to poor Mary Lou lately , even her prayer book had disappeared and some of her pencils had gone . |
| 9 | Until now the allied air forces have been going to enemy positions ; once the ground forces move in , the enemy air force will have to come up to fight . |
| 10 | Anyway , in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett . |
| 11 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
| 12 | This time the Americans have been talking to negotiators as often as three times a day , sitting with one side and then another to explore positions on such controversial issues as the disposition of authority over West Bank land . |
| 13 | Meanwhile at Oakhill Primary School in Dumbleton where Ben Garvey went to school , parents and pupils have been coming to terms with his death . |
| 14 | It may be a new experience for you — but students have been going to college for at least two-and-a-half thousand years ! |
| 15 | Tufted ducks have been flocking to our ponds in unusual numbers , writes James O'Hagan |
| 16 | Dozens more East Germans have been going to the West German Embassy in Warsaw , where by yesterday evening more than 400 had collected . |
| 17 | More than a hundred and fifty schoolgirls have been getting to grips with the subtle skills of scrummaging and line outs . |
| 18 | The Board 's area general manager , Tom Frawley , commented : ‘ There never has been any intention to close accident and emergency and I feel the rumours have been damaging to the public 's confidence in the hospital and to the morale of staff ’ |
| 19 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |