Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |
| 2 | Britain 's cloudy skies are only partly to blame for this poor performance . |
| 3 | I am not about to confess to Rosenbloom how and why I missed that part of the story . |
| 4 | Mr Deputy Speaker , no I did not know the exact amount of the recommendation but I of course assumed there was likely to be some pay increase and I have made an increase in grant which I am just about to explain to the house which will go some way to meet the requirements of local authorities and there are other assets and resources they have er which I will illustrate later on in my speech . |
| 5 | I would have thought that in many ways the divisions which exist in this country and in Europe over religious matters are not largely to do with our past . |
| 6 | Politicians are not wholly to blame for failing to know the British . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame . |
| 8 | Moreover , we showed that indomethacin inhibited chemiluminescence elicited by stimulation of a suspension of neutrophils by FMLP , a system in which oxygen free radicals are not though to derive from the cyclo-oxygenase reaction . |
| 9 | Formal links between sentences , then , are not enough to account for our feeling that a stretch of language is discourse . |
| 10 | Therefore , you have this paramount public policy to consider — that you are not lightly to interfere with this freedom of contract . |
| 11 | Third , the injustices against which prisoners struggle are not merely to do with the way in which we run our prisons . |
| 12 | In other words , according to the philosophy of the head teacher , the teachers are not there to teach at all , but merely to supervise the children as they try to learn by themselves . |
| 13 | The reasons for their success are not necessarily to do with their acuteness , not necessarily to do with their originality , but everything to do with sustaining the status-quo of the institution at that time . |
| 14 | And it 's foolish of him to have it when we 're all about to go into production and we 're so tired . ’ |
| 15 | She sits there she goes and she stops and you 're just about to go to sleep and she goes so loud ! |
| 16 | Is it possible , this is quite a bit of work we 're just about to enter into , which we may have to repeat . |
| 17 | With a broad smile , David says : ‘ We have also been looking at Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and we 're just about to start on Marilyn Monroe ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Since you claim that your objectives are the same as mine , and that you 're not here to work against me , as I 'd supposed , I 'm going to put you in charge , as it were … make you responsible … ’ |
| 19 | you 're not there to deal with it . |
| 20 | Well that 's what we 're here today to look at . |
| 21 | The ITN version suggests that the pickets are still largely to blame for the violence , but the police contribution to disorder is given more emphasis than in the BBC 's bulletin . |
| 22 | You are also about to embark on a series of exercises that will start you on the road to a more beautiful body — a body of which you will be proud . |
| 23 | Chair my name 's Pete from Partnership 's I 'm here as a member of the public I 'm not here to speak on behalf of the theatre at all . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not here to look after every child in the school ! |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not about to argue with that , ’ said Rosheen and started to move off . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not about to leap on you . |
| 27 | Having stated several times that everything about the Moon is a variable , I 'm not about to comment on its form . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't worry , I 'm not about to collapse at your feet . |
| 29 | I 'm not about to change for anybody . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm just up to see about this operation . |