Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Germans are going to the US twice this year in June and December , when they will play games against England , Brazil and the US ( twice ) . |
| 3 | Madam Speaker , what er I and my right honourable friend will go on emphasising is the contribution which our tax policies are making to the economic strength and the improved standards of living of this country . |
| 4 | In the normally austere Hereford Breed , Journal , the owners of the Llandinabo herd claim foreign bulls are leading to the disintegration of the British Hereford by introducing alien blood . |
| 5 | The majority of Tom Troubadour 's opponents are coming to the end of much busier campaigns , and the novice Merry Master may prove the main threat . |
| 6 | Some American artists are responding to the recession by creating more modestly priced works . |
| 7 | In actual fact , you see the plan , the two houses are going to the bottom end of the site , as far away to the adja adjacent to West Holm . |
| 8 | But after 40 years of post-war public sector housing there is now evidence of widespread rejection , and some community groups are looking to the promise of community architecture ( Wates and Knevitt , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | Ironically , these kids are doing to the Lo Life name what the real Lo Lifers themselves do to Ralph Lauren 's — using its status for their own ends . |
| 10 | As you are lying with the books under your head , bring your feet as near to your buttocks as is comfortably possible so that your knees are pointing to the ceiling . |
| 11 | I 'm used to taking like his lips are sticking to the window ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is particularly bad in London and , as a result , dissatisfied clients are looking to the merits of regionally-based firms . |
| 14 | Other would-be reformers are going to the opposite extreme , trying to concoct complicated ways for people in one district to subsidise those in another . |
| 15 | I am pleased to say that more and more European Community countries are coming to the views that we have pioneered on reform . |
| 16 | My shoes are sticking to the floor . |
| 17 | Youngsters are turning to the habit because it makes them appear ‘ cool ’ in the eyes of older children . |
| 18 | THE EXODUS from East Europe continued unabated yesterday , with thousands leaving and many would-be emigres defying attempts by the Communist authorities to prevent their crossing into Czechoslovakia , from where most refugees are fleeing to the West . |
| 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 | The planes are returning to the United States , although F-One-Eleven fighter bombers are staying on . |
| 21 | Charity workers are looking to the boys to set an example when they return to Beirut . |
| 22 | this explains why Golding 's choice of ending , rescue , is not anti-climatic as the choristers and schoolboys are returning to the same situation back in the outside world . |
| 23 | People in schools , hospitals , public offices of all kinds are rising to the challenge . |
| 24 | Now that help is urgently needed to stem the threatened spread of AIDS , some governments are looking to the churches to put forward a limiting view of sex . |
| 25 | Lenders are looking to the level of profits now seen rather than on the prospect of ‘ jam tomorrow ’ . |
| 26 | A month afterwards the teams will be sent out to discover whether retailers are sticking to the letter of the law . |
| 27 | But as yet we 've not had an announcement on those , what those conditions are attaching to the use of the , of the grant . |
| 28 | Three resolutions are going to the UN Security Council . |
| 29 | At least some UK suppliers are responding to the energy efficiency challenge and are offering more efficient appliances , such as chamber furnaces etc . |
| 30 | Increasingly records managers are contributing to the system specification . |