Example sentences of "he is [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now it must be obvious that bullying him is n't going to work . |
| 2 | But when Colin Mackenzie , regional director of Fairclough Civil Engineering , a main contractor on the project , talks about a ‘ hard-nosed bunch ’ he is not referring to his men . |
| 3 | He is not trying to be humble , he is genuinely perplexed by the chemistry that exists between himself and other people . |
| 4 | He is not conforming to their pattern by ‘ miraculous accident ’ . |
| 5 | ’ Well' , said Macmillan , ‘ he is not going to be my headmaster . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He is not going to be sacked over Christmas , and in the New Year the preparations for the Spring Budget would be disrupted by a change at the helm . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope he is not going to be taller than me . |
| 8 | ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield . |
| 9 | ‘ He is not going to Belgium ? ’ |
| 10 | And he is not going to be too keen on you continuing with your career , either , ’ she 'd added warningly . |
| 11 | I did n't like the feeling ; it brought it home to me how much you are judged by how you look , all the time , and how weird it feels when you are talking to this compere , and all the time you know he is n't listening to a word you are saying , just looking down your cleavage . |
| 12 | ‘ I think maybe the reason he is n't speaking to me , ’ Ellie ventured , ‘ is something you might have said to him . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well I do n't believe you did and he is n't going to be able to prove it . ’ |
| 14 | But he is n't responding to treatment . ’ |
| 15 | He is probably going to the château . |
| 16 | Do not immediately put him on the lead , for this will reinforce the idea that when he comes back to you , he is immediately going to be taken home and , in future , will associate coming to you with the end of the walk or game . |
| 17 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 18 | Erm there 's another Econ Soc the Economic Society putting on a lecture at five o'clock on Wednesday er in A forty two and the topic there is What 's Happening to the Distribution of Income in Britain and he is also talking to the Public Sector . |
| 19 | If the sentence-grammarian wishes to make claims about the ‘ acceptability ’ of a sentence in determining whether the strings produced by his grammar are correct sentences of the language , he is implicitly appealing to contextual considerations . |
| 20 | For as the election draws ever-nearer , he is being asked to make what for him must be the ultimate sacrifice : from time to time , he is actually having to be nasty . |
| 21 | Therefore , he is now going to the place where the satellite is . |
| 22 | To the end , he is merely listening to his subjects , respecting without judging them and keeping us , as readers , flush against them , indulging in their foibles and sharing their fantasies . |
| 23 | Obviously , though , he is still acclimatising to the berth at international level . |
| 24 | Were this competitive process to run its course to completion — in other words , were all decisions to become fully dovetailed — each participant would no longer be under pressure to improve the opportunities he is currently offering to the market , since no one else is offering more attractive opportunities [ … |
| 25 | Racing is in the blood , and while a driver still thinks he can do it , at or near the top , he is always going to be tempted . |
| 26 | He is constantly talking to you about your performance , about how you are reacting , building up your confidence throughout the training session . |