Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [v-ing] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second observation is that learning is a " total " event in that is involves the entire person. , The third and most characteristic observation is that a person is constantly responding to innumerable influences , a few of which are conscious and rational , but most of which are either non-conscious or non-rational , or both . |
| 2 | But , there will also be many instances where the oven is only working to half or less than half of its full capacity for most of the day . |
| 3 | The government is obviously trying to muddy the waters , they 're claiming that if we put clauses in the contracts , contract is to bid for the tenders , it 's competitive . |
| 4 | IVF is already spreading to developing countries , and it is easy to imagine that other new methods will be introduced as well . |
| 5 | China 's existing network is already aiming to more than treble in size to 1m lines this year , but this still represents only about five or six phones per 100 people . |
| 6 | ‘ I notice now the accent is already switching to more mobility as they come to terms with the new laws , ’ he explained . |
| 7 | Output from Alaska is already returning to normal ; North Sea output will recover by the third quarter . |
| 8 | Some people involved in the scene argue that S&M , with its ritual power plays and role reversals , is genuinely threatening to those in authority . |
| 9 | She 's always running to other members of the family — usually me — whenever she needs help . ’ |
| 10 | If she has to deal with him at all , even quite briefly , people start saying ‘ She 's always talking to that man , — who knows why she has so much to say . ’ |
| 11 | Israel 's tourist industry is gradually recovering to pre-Gulf War levels , according to latest Israeli Government statistics . |
| 12 | Finally , the strategies for change can be found in an analysis of what has gone before and a cultural intervention in what is socially happening to disabled people . |
| 13 | It 's like talking to that wall |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In addition to the foul stench it produces , it is also damaging to sensitive mucous membranes . |
| 16 | Such erosion is also contributing to accelerated sedimentation in reservoirs but it is not the only cause , as Tejwani ( 1987b ) has discussed in relation to reservoirs in the Indian Himalaya . |
| 17 | British Rail North East is also talking to local authorities about other ways of winning more people over to rail travel and reducing road traffic levels at the same time . |
| 18 | The Trust is also responding to increased threats to the environment . |
| 19 | ‘ The boss is really getting to all of us , now . ’ |
| 20 | This environmental movement today is really saying to all of us , erm in order to avoid building platforms off the coast of the United States , we are willing to risk sending our sons to the sands of the Middle East to die perhaps for the preservation of a life style , that some of us are unwilling to develop here in our own country . |
| 21 | The CPRE is now appealing to local councils to carry out mowing in late summer , after the flowers have blown , rather than early in the season , thereby allowing natural seeding to take place . |
| 22 | Opposition is now beginning to proposed gold mining in Co . |
| 23 | In some of these , initial confrontation is now leading to constructive dialogue with local authority officials . |
| 24 | What is the point of the Government providing billions to help our economy when the help is mainly going to other countries ? |
| 25 | There must be a limit beyond which expenditure on the social and public services is detrimental to economic growth ; there is , however , a corresponding point below which social service expenditure is equally damaging to economic development . |
| 26 | My body 's simply reacting to that . ’ |
| 27 | Africa 's disenchantment with the two Washington institutions is fast turning to outright hostility . |
| 28 | While both Christie 's and Sotheby 's did not have the rich assortments of seasons past ( Sotheby 's even resorting to smaller groupings of lots on a page ) there were enough out-of-the-ordinary canvases to make both sales notable successful . |
| 29 | If the sentence-grammarian wishes to make claims about the ‘ acceptability ’ of a sentence in determining whether the strings produced by his grammar are correct sentences of the language , he is implicitly appealing to contextual considerations . |
| 30 | Every teacher who makes excessive sacrifices in the time and attention needed for his own personal growth to the demands of the organisation within which he works or to its students is ultimately denying to that organisation and those students the very knowledge , understanding and skill which it is his professional responsibility to offer . |