Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [v-ing] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 2 | The only other major commodity which is based on lump sum rates regardless of quantities used , is water and the Water Companies are slowly moving over to a metered system in order to improve the discipline of use . |
| 3 | We are so looking forward to meeting you and do hope you can come . |
| 4 | ‘ I am greatly looking forward to the challenge . ’ |
| 5 | Very excited , very nervous also but I am relly looking forward to it . |
| 6 | Marriage partners are , perhaps , in the greatest difficulty when both are desperately seeking only to be contained , when neither can perceive the equivalent need in the other and provide accordingly . |
| 7 | Parnell was in jail , and the British authorities are desperately holding on to power as support for the Land League accelerates . |
| 8 | Proud of the rapid development time for the 601 , the two companies are nevertheless rushing on to complete work on three other promised iterations of the part , now under development at IBM 's Somerset plant in Austin , Texas . |
| 9 | Users are finally coming round to the idea that applications are more important than the platform , he says , citing the UK supermarket chain , Sainsbury 's , which took ten months to decide that it would move to Unix , choosing its software before inviting companies to bid for the hardware contract . |
| 10 | Generally , however , I am just looking forward to another good season — and I think I 'll make it because I have never been so settled or contented in my life . ’ |
| 11 | There are some cases where I am just holding on to them and not cashing them in . ’ |
| 12 | I am already looking forward to Atlanta in four years time . ’ |
| 13 | Developers are already cottoning on to the trend by building houses with ready made work rooms . |
| 14 | Despite the weather conditions this year , everyone enjoyed the day out and are already looking forward to next year 's encounter . |
| 15 | The seventeen pensioners who were able to join us for the annual get-together enjoyed themselves immensely and are already looking forward to next year 's trip ! |
| 16 | EC members are already reacting informally to the MacSharry plan . |
| 17 | This is what your teachers will try to tell you is true but they are just sucking up to you . |
| 18 | Yes , but On the last comment that er Chris made er bringing us and the letter to county about the the failure of the meeting on the twenty second cos we feel that they are just lying down to the situation and not pursuing a pursuing the D A P about whatsoever and erm we are , certainly in John 's letter probably get it signed tonight complaining and asking for a a meeting as soon as possible because we feel that that they ought to be pursuing the question of these two sites , they 're dragging their feet ! |
| 19 | Those who are most likely to be affected by the Labour party 's proposals to surcharge savings are those who are just coming up to retirement . |
| 20 | Well , I know we 're rather looking forward to May when it , when it finishes till September |
| 21 | And we 're only seeking up to one percent of development costs . |
| 22 | Well we 're only going up to Eastgate now Jane . |
| 23 | That 's quite good because y often there is a country though , we have n't had many campaigns on countries sort of lately have we , it 's been more on different aspects on Amnesty 's work so they 're obviously going back to picking on countries where they deal , that 'll . |
| 24 | Wyse Technology found itself a technology playmate in Siemens Nixdorf , having forged a pact some months ago that they 're just getting around to telling us about : Wyse is selling SNI its Intel Corp-based symmetric multi-processing designs and subsystems which the Germans are using in the MX500 superserver line released in Europe and the Far East late last year . |
| 25 | The reply comes zooming down the phone : ‘ Of course , dear , we 'll understand — do n't think another thought about it — we 're just looking forward to seeing you , and we 'll be in touch nearer the time , dear … ’ |
| 26 | We 're just going up to Eastgate Bike Shop to try and get a cable that just snapped |
| 27 | ‘ We 're just going through to the hall , ’ said Dominic . |
| 28 | No , you 're just coming up to your first round . |
| 29 | You 're just on the approaches to Jerusalem , you 're just coming in to Jerusalem right ? |
| 30 | We had a glimpse of that with ‘ Nothing Compares 2 U ’ ( she cried , we cried too … ) and she does n't staunch the flow ( ‘ Can you really say you 're not in pain , like me ? ’ — ‘ Speech ’ ’ ) Do n't be fooled by the slight swagger of ‘ Why Do n't You Do Right ? ’ , the fragile , breathy innocence of her ‘ Bewitched , Bothered And Bewildered ’ , we 're just warming up to those where's-my-baby-blues of ‘ Black Coffee ’ . |