Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991-92 , the TDC had a budget allocation of £51 million , which it is using to great effect . |
| 2 | Late last year ( UX No 362 ) , Phil Hestor , vice president of systems and technology at IBM 's Advanced Workstation Division in Austin , Texas , described how multi-processing for the RS/6000 range would start with a four-way offering rising to a maximum of 16 CPUs , with clustering required thereafter : it looks like IBM is sticking to that tack . |
| 3 | He is sticking to this view . |
| 4 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 5 | Van Basten , a hero of the last two triumphs is returning to full fitness and looks likely to replace £10m understudy Papin . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've come to use the fair as promotion , and I think everyone is returning to this idea after the end of the bonanza period . ’ |
| 7 | What 's happening to this house ? ’ and Agnes , as she made her way to the linen cupboard , called back over her shoulder , ‘ You 've got the answer to that , Mother , if you dare to face up to it , ’ which left Alice Conway open-mouthed and dumb . |
| 8 | I do n't know what 's happening to this place . ’ |
| 9 | Well look what 's happening to these test papers . |
| 10 | So what is happening to that money ? |
| 11 | The bridge was like a symbol which suddenly made me realise what is happening to that country . |
| 12 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 13 | The Minister , however , does not give a damn about what is happening to people on the lowest incomes ; he does not even understand what is happening to local government . |
| 14 | The destruction of peat bogs is contributing to global warming , according to a report commissioned by Friends of the Earth and prepared by the Wetland Ecosystems Research Group of Exeter University . |
| 15 | So if there 's any teacher who 's listening to this programme who would like details of it , by writing in to you , Dudley Ward , at the university ? |
| 16 | Curve fitting parameters include the correlation coefficient , R-squared , and ranking of fit is according to that factor . |
| 17 | ‘ All the Government is doing is bowing to back-bench pressure . |
| 18 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 19 | Our customers were delighted — sales to one of them doubled and now the G201 production line is operating to full capacity . |
| 20 | We therefore begin , in Chapter 2 , by examining the argument frequently put forward that the new technology is leading to wholesale job destruction and hence a permanently high level of unemployment . |
| 21 | One of the economic changes that is leading to increasing homelessness is the disappearance of low cost rented accommodation . |
| 22 | THE DESIRE for healthier lifestyles is leading to growing acceptance of alternative medicine in treating minor ailments , a report by Mintel market analysts claimed yesterday . |
| 23 | The introduction of new federal regulations to protect ground water is leading to widespread closure of small town petrol ( " gas " ) stations in the US , according to the Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 24 | Secondly , it encourages the belief and even resentment outside the area that most loose government money is going to nationalist West Belfast . |
| 25 | She is going to some home , that is all , nothing could be less remarkable . |
| 26 | My problem is that as everybody knows , that the southern relief road is going to public inquiry . |
| 27 | Mrs Short : The way they were talking at that meeting George is going to residential school . |
| 28 | Then under her breath , ‘ But nothing 's going to gentle Angel ! ’ |
| 29 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 30 | If you 're going to effing bingo and Dave 's going to effing bingo , we can all go out up in my car , the girls can and have to squeeze up in the back of the car . |