Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently IBM , which offers the AP/6000 office package on the RS/6000 , is not at all perturbed about ICL muscling on to its territory with OfficePower . |
| 2 | it increases the complexity of the description without , in my view , contributing much to its value . |
| 3 | Not living up to its size : 37,000 artists but only forty-nine illustrations |
| 4 | Over in Covent Garden in the nearby Crush Bar at the Royal Opera House , was living up to its name . |
| 5 | The weather held fine and a slight deviation from our course to Shetland brought us to Fair Isle which that day was living up to its name . |
| 6 | November was living up to its reputation . |
| 7 | The elusive lyre-bird , though , despite all Gould 's efforts , was living up to its reputation . |
| 8 | The day had a shadow in it and waS not living up to its promise . |
| 9 | I had great pleasure in seeing that extension and I would be surprised if the hon. Gentleman had not visited it and was not looking forward to its opening . |
| 10 | The blade was going in to its hilt , in , and in again , and the blood was spreading out over the priest 's hairless chest . |
| 11 | That will prevent MPs scrutinising the report in detail and from questioning Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley about the DTI 's role in allowing Barlow Clowes to operate over the years leading up to its collapse . |
| 12 | The primary liability of the member States could be based upon their failure to supervise the International Tin Council adequately and their actual or constructive knowledge of the events leading up to its collapse . |
| 13 | My hotel is a first-floor one on the Vieux Port with narrow stairs leading up to its reception . |
| 14 | The 2–8–0 is seen at Shireoaks as it takes the line to Shirebrook , heading back to its Buttlerley base . |
| 15 | It lay across the most direct if not always the quickest route to Normandy ; in peace , wine and wool crossed the county , adding significantly to its wealth . |
| 16 | In its first year the plant will process 500 BMWs , building up to its capacity of 2,500 , by operating as a factory in reverse — working on the premise that everything that is bolted , welded , glued , screwed or sewn in can be used again . |
| 17 | The chances of a local gentry family holding on to its farm through three or more generations were about 50:50 during the Elizabethan and Stuart era . |
| 18 | My subject is still colour changer but this month I 'm moving on to its use in double bed knitting , in particular for double jacquard which is easier than you may think . |
| 19 | The reign of King Steam was moving peacefully to its close . |
| 20 | Pioneer Sparc cloner Opus Systems Inc , Mountain View , California , is finally calling it quits with whatever remains of its Sparc clone business and says it is retracting back to its SparcCard PC add-in boards ( UX No 343 ) . |
| 21 | With the RCM holding fast to its independence , offers from orthodox rabbis to take up peripatetic duties were firmly rejected . |
| 22 | We all knew that the life of Sir Henry Wood was coming peacefully to its close . |
| 23 | There will be a development environment and beta versions of the complete environment tailored for vertical markets running up to its release ( UX No 426 ) . |
| 24 | There will be a development environment and beta versions of the complete environment tailored for vertical markets running up to its release . |
| 25 | A body rousing fitfully to its pain |
| 26 | In another a family is just sitting down to its evening meal . |
| 27 | Is it standing up to its job ? |
| 28 | Remote procedure call technology developer Netwise Inc is retreating back to its home base in Boulder , Colorado . |
| 29 | In the second debate , ‘ top-down ’ sees the state as a single agent responding rationally to its situation , whereas ‘ bottom-up ’ sees the state 's behaviour as the outcome of bargains ( and other manoeuvres ) among bureaucratic agencies . |
| 30 | The girl picked up the receiver , soap suds streaming on to its cover . |