Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in Britain , however , that loyalist violence is really damaging to the cause to which it is presumably dedicated . |
| 2 | The wind is probably gusting to sixty or seventy knots with spindrift flying everywhere , yet on the pier a group of herring gulls are standing with their feet flat on the concrete and not being blown away . |
| 3 | If the end result is eventually going to be thrown away ; memos , reports , flyers , price lists and so on , then page printer output is probably more than adequate . |
| 4 | Coaching is also beginning to be recognized as an essential tool which has to be developed systematically , not left to chance or the interest of a few concerned managers . |
| 5 | Opposition is now beginning to proposed gold mining in Co . |
| 6 | In some of these , initial confrontation is now leading to constructive dialogue with local authority officials . |
| 7 | Israel 's tourist industry is gradually recovering to pre-Gulf War levels , according to latest Israeli Government statistics . |
| 8 | U/V light is potentially damaging to the eyes , and you should never look directly at a lit-up tube . |
| 9 | They will want to place the promises that Labour is now making to them in that historical context . |
| 10 | DIA is currently talking to firms such as Boulder , Colorado-based XVT Inc , whose interface-independent technology produce a range of different front-ends for applications , including Apple Mac , Windows and Motif . |
| 11 | But the inspector has upheld the council 's view that the range is visually damaging to the area . |
| 12 | Sun is clearly demonstrating to Bill Gates some of the black arts on which the Unix industry has cut its teeth — more of which Microsoft can undoubtedly expect to face with its Windows NT challenge . |
| 13 | Sun is clearly demonstrating to Bill Gates some of the black arts on which the Unix industry has cut its teeth — more of which Microsoft can undoubtedly expect to face when it launches its Windows NT challenge . |
| 14 | Sun is still clinging to its promised fourth quarter delivery date for the multi-processors ( UX No 385 ) , but admits that may slip to the beginning of next year . |
| 15 | The oldest rookie is still punching to the line . |
| 16 | interest tax relief , it 's M I D A S right , so let's not start talking about the benefit of public sector housing and to show the financial illiteracy of of of what 's actually been proposed if you understand the government regulation about the ring fencing o of of of the housing revenue account and and the way in which housing benefit is now having to be subsidised by those other council house tenants then what 's actually going to happen when your poor people inhabit those houses , those public sector houses and they need the housing benefit that David 's been talking about . |
| 17 | But the disclosure is nevertheless damaging to the Government as the lock out of ambulance workers continues towards Christmas . |
| 18 | What is the point of the Government providing billions to help our economy when the help is mainly going to other countries ? |
| 19 | The parent is also demonstrating to the child how to behave in an aggressive and anti-social manner ( Patterson et al . 1975 ) and is likely to be copied in the future . |
| 20 | If the law is really going to be so pedantic over this , then the least the police can do is ensure everybody is aware of the rules well in advance . |
| 21 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |
| 22 | The EEC 's attitude is somewhat baffling to the Višegrad trade negotiators : it lectures them on the merits of free trade , while closing its own markets . |
| 23 | But the Left claims that the Chancellor is simply pandering to the far-Right by tampering with the asylum laws . |
| 24 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 25 | This looks as if the intervention is effective but it may be that the child is just responding to rewards rather than learning new behaviour . |
| 26 | If we look also at the review sections , we see that already in the 1920s McKerrow takes the view that a " great period of discovery is rapidly coming to an end : " an age of English scholarship is passing , if not already passed " . |
| 27 | Yet you can also measure the number of open files , how much correspondence is still waiting to be answered , the rate at which telephone calls are answered within the department , the initial claims against the settlements and therefore the gain or loss on estimates . |
| 28 | And while established first team players like Kevin Scott and Gavin Peacock are certain to be offered new deals , the new Newcastle boss is already preparing to be ruthless . |
| 29 | ‘ The boss is really getting to all of us , now . ’ |
| 30 | As the terrible inevitability of extinction looms ever closer for the baiji and Indus River dolphin , the international community is belatedly responding to the conservation challenge . |