Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 2 | The defence of a firm accused of predatory pricing is often that it is merely responding to competition : so evidence of its intentions may be quite important in deciding whether a firm 's conduct is predatory or not . |
| 3 | The Open Software Foundation , based in Cambridge , Massachusetts is apparently bowing to user pressure over its pricing for the Distributed Computing Environment , and will announce significant price reductions for one-time Distributed Computing licences , distribution rights and royalty fees at UniForum on March 17 . |
| 4 | One word of warning : do n't assume that your surprise attack is always going to work , otherwise you might get a nasty surprise yourself . |
| 5 | Desmond Dekker is still playing to capacity crowds and you will recognise his unique sound on three national TV campaigns . |
| 6 | ‘ Liam Devlin , if it is Devlin they choose , is hardly going to parachute into the courtyard at St Mary 's Priory tomorrow night , Jack , and if he did , so what ? |
| 7 | Well like that 's good for a wee girl who 's still going to college and what not right ? |
| 8 | The Government is ostensibly looking to Parliament to confer not just statutory enactment of what it negotiated at Maastricht , but moral and political assent . |
| 9 | Gosh , that 's like going to hell is n't it ? |
| 10 | But by asserting the ability of language to create true fictions , this celebration of the power of language is also helping to de-centre language 's supposed referential relation with the world of epistemological things . |
| 11 | At first the case failed because there was no category of clergy malpractice , but a Judge was found who soon put that right and the case is now proceeding to trial . |
| 12 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 13 | Britain , of course , lagged behind the States , but it is now beginning to surface . |
| 14 | Thornton Swish is now offering to double-glaze the seven windows and french doors at the house in Chester-le-Street , County Durham , for £3,900 . |
| 15 | Today there is much public concern about the amount of incest that occurs and is now coming to light . |
| 16 | She shows that unequal access to cash is a source of friction , and that rows about money are a common cause of the domestic violence which is now coming to light ( Pahl , 1983 , 1985 ; see also Brannen and Wilson , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | In the heart of the City , one of the most adventurous projects in many decades is now coming to completion . |
| 18 | If the hon. Gentleman would listen rather than talk , he would learn that the price formula for gas has also been revised : where it was minus 2 on the controllable costs it is now going to minus 5 — another tough target . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the company is reportedly preparing to demo some previously unseen systems management functionality in NT this week at a conference in Boston including software distribution , performance monitoring and inventory control . |
| 20 | Pound may be right or wrong about the merits of Binyon 's version , as about the sorts of language that are acceptable in verse translation ; what is certain is that he 's here applying to diction a sort of sliding scale or set of variable standards such as Ford 's principles did n't allow for . |
| 21 | The company that bottles the water says it 's acting completely within the law and is simply responding to customer demand . |
| 22 | However , an outspoken minority of executives responsible for recruiting felt strongly that the industry has a disreputable , cowboy element that is potentially damaging to client users and to professional and respectable search firms alike . |
| 23 | Heathrow is actually going to sort of lose ground in competition with other international airports and particularly within Europe . |
| 24 | This is never going to work , Charles was thinking , so what is the point of worrying about it ? |
| 25 | ‘ My knee is never going to work the way it should , Seb , but the muscles of my leg are working much better , have you noticed ? |
| 26 | ‘ And unless you 're going to allow it to be your husband — to let him be boss , in fact — your relationship is never going to work . |
| 27 | The level of undiscovered malpractice is a matter for conjecture although such evidence is continually coming to light , as illustrated in the manner in which leading drug/pesticide/herbicide companies callously exploit the Third World . |