Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as yet we 've not had an announcement on those , what those conditions are attaching to the use of the , of the grant . |
| 2 | Now a sinister trend is emerging with the rearrest of some of those whose prison sentences are drawing to an end . |
| 3 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 4 | Most of them are sticking to a policy , adopted during the Falklands war , of not stocking war games until the war is over . |
| 5 | My shoes are sticking to the floor . |
| 6 | I 'm used to taking like his lips are sticking to the window ! |
| 7 | A month afterwards the teams will be sent out to discover whether retailers are sticking to the letter of the law . |
| 8 | Of course the Government are not satisfied with that , but at least it is clear that our efforts are having an impact and are bringing to an end the unsatisfactory increase in the number of homeless in bed-and-breakfast accommodation — which is falling in London , and is virtually stable across the rest of the country . |
| 9 | Increasingly records managers are contributing to the system specification . |
| 10 | Group members should not only feel that they are contributing to the life of the group , but that their participation is important . |
| 11 | Inevitably there are underlying social complexities , such as land tenure and population growth , which are contributing to the problem but there is also evidence , from locations within the drainage basin where conservation measures are being introduced , that terracing and contour farming can not only reduce the risk of erosion but also increase productivity . |
| 12 | Could you tell me how people outside Kuwait from that country are contributing to the war effort . |
| 13 | We all , most of us , drive cars , you know , in that sense is there some sense of guilt around that in some way we are contributing to the war . |
| 14 | An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths . |
| 15 | bank statements for the last twelve months if you are applying to a bank other than your own ; |
| 16 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 17 | I am praying to the God of Laughter for unconditional mercy . |
| 18 | Can there be a more telling difference between the day when the CBI has confirmed the depth of the recession , unemployment is rising faster than in any other European country , we have a training and skills crisis , which the Government are making worse daily , and the fact that the Conservatives are returning to the agenda of the 1970s because they have no answers to the problems of the 1990s ? |
| 19 | Although passengers are returning to the air — numbers carried by BA rose 7.3 per cent to 6.18 million in the quarter — the increase is not matching the rise in BA 's capacity , which jumped 11 per cent over the same period . |
| 20 | Allister Hutton , Mike Gratton and Veronique Marot are returning to the course which brought them victory in the eighties and they 'll be joined by Berlin Marathon winner Steve Brace , who is using the London as part of his preparation for Barcelona . |
| 21 | The King and Queen ( who like very special and unusual food ) are returning to the Castle . |
| 22 | Prism has worked with a very wide variety of groups including the elderly , people with learning difficulties or physical handicap , those recovering from mental illness and those who care for and enable groups who are returning to the community . |
| 23 | In the long run , persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy . |
| 24 | The aim of the book is to generate awareness of office supplies that are damaging to the environment and promote the purchase of more environment-friendly products such as recycled paper , non-tropical hardwood desks etc . |
| 25 | We are aspiring to the state of village idiots , to whom everything is a source of amazement . |
| 26 | If you are writing to a woman whose marital status you are unaware of , then the title Ms can be used . |
| 27 | But after 40 years of post-war public sector housing there is now evidence of widespread rejection , and some community groups are looking to the promise of community architecture ( Wates and Knevitt , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | Lenders are looking to the level of profits now seen rather than on the prospect of ‘ jam tomorrow ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ We are looking to the government for a fundamental change in attitudes towards training . ’ |
| 30 | We are looking to the ILEA and Sports Council to support this , but a small charge might be necessary as this day is over and above the normal QT days . |