Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [v-ing] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Georgian side is trying to smear the Russian armed forces to make up for its own errors , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It is no good forcing every kind of ability into one form of education if the result is going to lower the standard which it is in the interests of the country to maintain . ’ |
| 3 | It has been rumoured in recent months that the Inland Revenue is seeking to attack the arrangements mentioned above either under the Furniss v Dawson doctrine or under the ‘ transactions in securities ’ legislation in s 703 , ICTA 1988 . |
| 4 | Plunging into the midst of a soft US market may not look clever in the short term , particularly since Thames 's own revenue is starting to feel the effects of the slowdown in advertising spending . |
| 5 | But with the season less than a third of the way through , the club is refusing to press the panic button , despite the worrying League situation . |
| 6 | I find myself left wondering , if £100 million of new money is standing idly by , how much an action programme is going to cost the Labour party and when we shall see it properly costed . |
| 7 | The national cot death prevention programme is attempting to reduce the prevalence of four modifiable risk factors — namely , maternal smoking , lack of breast feeding , prone sleep position , and infant sharing a bed with another person . |
| 8 | Well I 'm sorry that the opposition is continuing to talk the country down . |
| 9 | Time and again one gets the impression that the lawyer is trying to persuade the court that anyone other than his client was to blame for the accident . |
| 10 | There perhaps you would say the id is beginning to dominate the ego , but in accepting these extreme cases of , of psychotics who are severely divorced from reality , the , what always happens is the id has to make a demand on the ego which then gratifies it . |
| 11 | The board is travelling at the necessary high speed and the sailor 's weight is starting to bank the board into the turn . |
| 12 | In the end , however , the power bloc is working to maintain the hegemony of the dominant class and any policies which appear to question these interests are in fact nothing of the sort . |
| 13 | Their college is negotiating to convert the prison building to provide accomodation for students . |
| 14 | But even if this tape is going to record the last speech of somebody famous and it did n't get and therefore they could n't record it , that is co , the consequence of a delay , you know , a fall of snow or our vehicle breaking down or something not being done , or missed some in human , some human error , it 's not our , we do n't lay , we 'll give , we 'll insure or offer transit liability on the value of the goods providing you 've got additional full transit liability with us , but we wo n't for the loss of business because you did n't get it . |
| 15 | Moreover , the industry is beginning to lose the industrial image that it once had of a strike-torn and unreliable supplier . |
| 16 | The drive starts in late afternoon so that as the light is beginning to fade the herd will be driven into the log walls that funnel into the stockade . |
| 17 | The lace carriage is going to transfer the selected stitches and the main carriage is going to knit them . |
| 18 | A country with a population of 1.2 billion and which shut itself off from world trade and investment is rushing to join the market economy . |
| 19 | But it 's one thing to foresee , say , which horse is going to win the Derby . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ Whether this new tape is fake or not , then it shows that a conspiracy is operating to discredit the Royal Family and Diana and Charles in particular . |
| 21 | But conservation orthodoxy is beginning to resemble the credo of a business study course . |
| 22 | The sun is trying to melt the rocks . |
| 23 | Any coach is doing to do the best for his side ; if it suits him to be negative , he will be . |
| 24 | The operating system however does require significant tailoring to run on SMP machines and Corollary is working to simplify the problem for a shrinkwrapped SMP NT ( UX No 400 ) . |
| 25 | Of course , there is a small increase in speed as the climb gets steeper , both because the glider is starting to ascend the arc of a circle and also because of the effects of the wind gradient . |
| 26 | with a top speed of over 212 miles an hour , the Big Cat is aiming to leave the recession standing . |
| 27 | From the point of view of the copyright libraries including ourselves , the case of the Ordnance Survey is also related to the thorny question of maintaining our collections in an era when digital publication is beginning to replace the printed page . |
| 28 | This management is looking to buy the company , but they 're acting like Maxwell clones . |
| 29 | Oh well , you 'll soon know , or else you 'll find out : the Consul-General is trying to get the Khedive to make Patros Prime Minister . ’ |
| 30 | The DEDNI 's suggestion that it might encourage companies to testdrill on Cavehill , particularly for gold , has led to the formation of the Save the Cavehill Campaign in Belfast , while in west Belfast the Black Mountain Action Committee is trying to save the Mountain from disappearing through quarrying activities — the committee has found local people to be suffering from health problems , particularly of the eyes and throat , related to dust from the quarrying . |