Example sentences of "he is [v-ing] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | add information to the report description to describe the action he is taking to resolve the problem . |
| 2 | He has put down a Commons motion condemning the Defence Secretary for ‘ the arbitrary action which he is taking to extinguish the ancient rights of common [ … ] for political reasons to prevent the women 's peace camp from continuing their peaceful demonstrations ’ . |
| 3 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what steps he is taking to encourage the increase of touring by arts companies . |
| 4 | Feeling that his first book was directed towards chefs and more experienced cooks , he is hoping to put the balance right . |
| 5 | Peter Gibson J said , at p638 : An employee with experience in a particular industry who is intending to leave , whether to join a competitor as an employee or to set up in competition on his own account , commits no breach of contract in doing so unless either there is a specific term of his contract to that effect which does not fall foul of the doctrine against restraint of trade or he is intending to use the confidential information of his employer otherwise and for the benefit of his employer . |
| 6 | Notice how far back he is leaning to stop the board burying too much . |
| 7 | The garments might be placed by his hemiplegic side , if there is no risk of him falling as he reaches for them , and if he is beginning to use the hemiplegic arm . |
| 8 | If he is beginning to share the public anxiety about standards in our schools , he should be ashamed of himself for having resisted each and every reform that has been aimed at reversing the trend and improving them . |
| 9 | Kewenig has chosen to use his role in Berlin to impose his vision on the higher education — for example , he is refusing to allow the polytechnics to duplicate the work of the universities and lengthen their three year courses to compare with the universities . |
| 10 | He is trying to describe the way in which the world as finite is not self-sufficient . |
| 11 | In this , one recognises that he is trying to defend the questionable but deeply entrenched politico-sociological dogma that social phenomena result only from social causes . |
| 12 | Maybe he 'd love it , obviously he is trying to take the club forward . |
| 13 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 14 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 15 | If he hangs on they will say , ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory . ’ |
| 16 | If he were to hang on , he told Stamfordham , the nation would say : ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory . ’ |
| 17 | Modifying Freud 's understanding of the human agent means first that he is trying to understand the attempt of human beings to place some order on to the natural and social world under conditions of ‘ time-space distantiation ’ . |
| 18 | Here , an ex-governor makes much of the TV programmes he is launching to revitalise the Republican Party ; there , a senator finds himself , quite by chance , eating rubber chicken in both Iowa and New Hampshire . |
| 19 | We will want to know what he is doing to address the POA 's concerns about the operation of ’ fresh start ’ . |
| 20 | He takes the understandable view that it is for him to take the first steps in Russia , which he is doing to keep the scientists in Russia . |
| 21 | Often the instructor or pilot knows the correct recovery and thinks that he is using it , but because of the unusual forces on the controls , he is failing to apply the full recovery action . |
| 22 | Finally , behind schedule , he explains , so simply that I can understand , that he is going to take the Peter Brooke nomination , allow a little debate on the topic , then take an amendment to substitute ‘ Boothroyd ’ for ‘ Brooke ’ , take a vote on that and then see where we are . |
| 23 | He said once that he is going to close the churches and put maternity hospitals in their place where ‘ the new man ’ will be born . |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he is going to announce the start of the Ardrossan-Saltcoats-Stevenston bypass ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 25 | He is going to confide the secrets of his heart to us . |
| 26 | If someone is sitting on the radiator it is because his trousers are wet from the rain , if someone is drifting across the classroom he is going to get some paper for written work , or if someone is leaving class he is going to empty the rubbish ‘ like he usually does ’ . |
| 27 | He is starting to discuss the nation 's problems with top businessmen . |
| 28 | Given the decision to opt out of the social charter in Europe can the Prime Minister confirm that he is planning to fight the next general election on the slogan ’ Vote Tory for the lowest wages , least consultation and worst employment protection in Europe ’ ? |
| 29 | Abroad , he has already attained a high respect internationally for the manner in which he is endeavouring to help the third world and to play a responsible part in eastern Europe . |
| 30 | Paul has an enviable record in both his sales and sales training performance , and he is endeavouring to become the fourth Fellow of the Professional Sales Guild . |