Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether that occurs depends on its responses to the issue that is going to continue to dominate the political scene — the economy in general and the consequences of Exchange Rate Mechanism membership in particular . |
| 2 | In the next few months , Washington is going to try to transform the economic and regulatory environment of health care ( 13% of the economy ) , enact the most sweeping changes in the tax code since 1986 , lock into place a substantial reduction of the deficit and enact a five-year $165 billion ‘ investment ’ package in education , health care and infrastructure . |
| 3 | However , I was going to try to pull the right strings . |
| 4 | Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity . |
| 5 | What formula are we going to find to get the ordinary people of Ulster to vote on real issues which concern them and not on the entrenched sectarian issues into which we are brainwashed . |
| 6 | ‘ But it turned out that Liz was also desperately worried about how she and Owen were going to manage to pay the huge hospital bills . |
| 7 | Would he mind spelling out precisely what he is going to do to help the homeless ? |
| 8 | And this time we 're really going to get to see the Blue Grotto . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're going to have to describe the Mattli collection to me . |
| 10 | ‘ Look at the amount of playing and training the top rugby players do , ’ points out Barclay , who reckons that Scotland 's cricketers are now going to have to put the same amount of time and effort into their game to get to the top level . |
| 11 | The problem in all such charity-backed schemes is that , whereas cash has been raised for buildings and equipment , somebody is going to have to fund the day-to-day running and staffing . |
| 12 | Embalmers were going to have to do the same . |
| 13 | But shortly after settling in , she realised she was going to have to change the whole layout of the ground floor to accommodate a new kitchen . |
| 14 | What price are we going to have to pay the French to get this through , really do n't know and I wonder if the minister could say , what exactly does do the French actually want before they agree to this ? |
| 15 | I was going to ask to ask the assistant new commission policy . |
| 16 | It may be that if Mr X enters into the guarantee the property can be purchased with perhaps the non-resident trust having to borrow to purchase the same . |
| 17 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |
| 18 | These price increases restored the industry 's income to levels sufficient to cover book costs , but prices still remained low relative to the higher costs the industry was having to incur to meet the new demand . |
| 19 | He soon found , though , that he had not been eligible to join , having refused to join the top civil servants ' trade union which was then attempting to block a Foreign Office shake-up . |
| 20 | My institute would wish for it 's concern that having striven to establish the statutory qualification , the Diploma in Trading Standards , and consequently persuading employing authorities as officers holding that qualification use the title Trading Standards Officers now sees the potential of confusion . |
| 21 | The larger Fender headstock is adorned with F-stamped Kluson enclosed machines , these having begun to replace the original Kluson fitments from 1967 . |
| 22 | The Meech Lake Accord , a package of amendments to the Canadian Constitution , collapsed on June 23 , having failed to achieve the necessary ratification by the legislatures of all 10 provinces within two years of its passage by the federal House of Commons ( on June 22 , 1988 ) . |
| 23 | Newpaper Publishing , owner of the Independent , having failed to buy the rival Observer , decided to raise extra capital . |
| 24 | Having failed to lure the former coach Chalky White away from the Rugby Football Union , the Tigers are to advertise the post with a salary of around £20,000 , plus a pension and car . |
| 25 | We were given tasks , but then the tasks had been given to certain people like yourself , starting to want to do the other things , that other people were doing , and then everybody wanted to do instead of doing the tasks that they were set . |
| 26 | Floy was sleeping where he sat , his head resting on his folded arms , a look of such exhaustion on his face , that Fenella almost wished to be back on Renascia fighting Quilp and the Council and trying to plan to outwit the Dark Lodestar . |