Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So whereas aid at present is vital , cos there 's people starving to actually put the situation right i it 's not a question of aid at all , not a question of relief . |
| 2 | Although this is welcome , taken together with demographic changes and the likelihood of Lothian Health Board wanting to directly purchase a fair amount of nursing home beds , it underlines the need to maintain a stable market . |
| 3 | His soapy hands slipped possessively over her quivering body , pausing to sensually caress the hard , swollen peaks of her breasts before trailing a slow , scorching path down over her slim waist , and on down … down over the soft swell of her hips . |
| 4 | The mortar joint is attacked in a similar manner , remembering to always point the chisel inward , never out . |
| 5 | If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message . |
| 6 | Of course he is still er going to presumably appoint the regional panels , the professional recruitment consultant and the two people who themselves will be independent of government . |
| 7 | We have to respond to these developments and it is being made clear now in public , that the Health and Safety Executive are giving every indication to employers that they are not going to rigorously enforce the law and indeed in the local authorities a leading figure there has said that they want to take a softly softly approach . |
| 8 | Do you think it 's going to ultimately change the whole notion of publishing . |
| 9 | Do you think it 's going to ultimately change the whole notion of publishing ? |
| 10 | This means that , despite the constraints , CD-ROM is increasingly regarded as a viable multimedia platform , particularly attractive because it is going to fast become a standard , built-in feature of mass market microcomputers . |
| 11 | How do you inform parents that the overnight heavy snow storm or a broken boiler is going to unexpectedly close the school for the day ? |
| 12 | Because that elephant is going to probably require an environmental assessment or environmental statement erm and there would be infinite numbers of details to tie up in section one O sixes and goodness knows what else specific to that user or users , those users when they the came in the frame . |
| 13 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 14 | So we 've cleansed off the cleanser now going to tissue dry Now toner is in a spray bottle , so we 're going to gently use the spray over Molly 's face . |
| 15 | We were going to actually analyze the |
| 16 | Er and that query made on how they are going to actually evaluate the plan . |
| 17 | So they 're going to actually buy the desserts from the college . |
| 18 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 19 | You know , if the erm that if the family think you 're going to actually take the child off them because they 're not looking after it properly , then I mean obviously they 're not perhaps going to be as frank with you as they might otherwise . |
| 20 | There would be a short handover period , er it would have to be administered , but from where we sit , we 're going to actually submit a bid that sees off the competition . |
| 21 | I was going to actually ask the same question . |
| 22 | Daly was attempting to also win a double championship after winning the fours title with his father earlier today but he did n't show the same consistency against Nolan as he did in yesterday 's semi-final when he beat NIBA champion Martin McHugh from Carrickfergus 21-10 . |
| 23 | Martin Butler , 25 , of Woodward Road , Rock Ferry , denied attempting to dishonestly receive the two bikes , which he claims he bought for £20 from a caller at his door . |
| 24 | If a particular human is capable of handling the proper aspects of a gadget , which must include mental knowledge of its place in the Machine of Evolution , then it is possible to use it as an aid , but as there are increasing numbers of gadgets being invented and marketed , so the human brain has no time and space to see these in relation to its own life/thought scale because , upon being born , the human is thrown immediately into a multi-armed and legged wrestling match with levers , wires , buttons and switches and fails to grasp the meaning of it all , being occupied totally in rushing to partially master the use of one before the marketeers rush in faster with 10 new gleaming diversions . |
| 25 | Such an insider 's account will therefore hopefully achieve the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ MacDonald ( 1987 ) demanded of postmodern ‘ anthropology at home ’ , while ‘ practical mastery ’ of the ethnographic field should reduce the problems faced by McCabe and Sutcliffe ( 1978 ) , who set out to pursue participant observation on the police and found that ‘ it would be necessary for anyone wishing to fully understand the process of policing to take into account the difficulties in gaining access and an understanding of just what was going on ’ . |
| 26 | I would personally like to see more erm sort of grading of erm more , more higher standards being set by the sort of head offices of people who own things like chains of motorway service areas , not catering for the lowest common denominator , but aiming to really have an absolutely top quality service , cleanliness , everything , in all parts of their business . |
| 27 | Sprinkle the yeast over the water in a cup and leave to stand for a few minutes in a warm place before stirring to completely dissolve the yeast . |
| 28 | Having to hastily reorganise the backs late in the week , Haslemere expected to be short of their usual firepower , but on the day this was further confounded by the late arrival of another two players and an almost complete breakdown in discipline . |
| 29 | Consequently , a Filing Working Party was established and , alter extensive examination of the reference construction , it was found that the only changes considered viable ( ie that could be made without having to completely revise the titles of some 60,000 active files ) were to the first three fields of the reference structure , establishing the basis for a limited computerised search facility in the proposed index system , rather than the extensive facilities envisaged by the FAOR Team . |
| 30 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |