Example sentences of "and [be] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have pleased the powerful church of Canterbury , with which he seems to have wished to be on good terms , and been gratifyingly displeasing to that of London . |
| 2 | Er G E C Marconi 's are the leader of a consortium , a four nation consortium of companies that are supplying the computer and are also contributing to the software . |
| 3 | Although graphite and diamond both exist at ordinary temperatures and pressures , diamonds are actually unstable and are continuously reverting to graphite . |
| 4 | Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language . |
| 5 | Sales were focused first on the East Coats , then the West Coast and are now spreading to the Gulf of Mexico , pulling in new business — currently worth about £1 million a year — at a time when marine growth is static . |
| 6 | They 'll sell two million pairs in America this year … and are now exporting to 22 countries around the world … winning R Griggs and Co a Queens Export award in the process . |
| 7 | Such observations have given rise to the notion of the ‘ invulnerable child ’ and are now leading to a radical re-appraisal of the results of risk research , with a shift of emphasis towards trying to understand the factors that enable some individuals to survive , or even profit from , their disposition to insanity . |
| 8 | These already have property assets worth some DM15 billion ( $10 billion ) , and are still adding to them . |
| 9 | General practitioners have always had to manage and plan their businesses and are constantly adapting to changes in medical care . |
| 10 | Companies like Intermedia and Altertext exist solely to serve this market and are ever adding to the range of formats that they can handle . |
| 11 | In fact , he believes that many of our ingenious musicians still have their aural-receptors pointed outwards and are merely trying to slavishly mimic what comes from England on the U.S. |
| 12 | One suspects that most computer scientists would like to believe that elegant data structures for organising all forms of information , together with powerful formalisms for manipulating and reasoning about it , have always pre-existed in some sense , and were just waiting to be discovered . |
| 13 | There was a newsflash at nine to say that the rescue party had reached the injured man and were now returning to the surface , and then nothing until almost midnight . |
| 14 | Schofield has already had cause to caution Montgomerie — in 1991 — and yesterday he said : ‘ He is a fine golfer and is clearly going to be a major figure in the game for as long as he remains active in it , but he has to be able to take it on the chin . |
| 15 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
| 16 | Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings . |
| 17 | Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings . |
| 18 | He flights the ball well and is already proving to be a master in disguising the googly . |
| 19 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 20 | The treaty has been signed , sealed and is just waiting to be delivered . |
| 21 | The company that bottles the water says it 's acting completely within the law and is simply responding to customer demand . |
| 22 | It has expanded into Europe and North America and is currently looking to the markets of Japan , the Far East and South America . |
| 23 | The wisdom of not proceeding simultaneously very much depends on the condition of the property market at the time and is inevitably going to be a gamble . |
| 24 | Susan Hyland joined the British Foreign Service , while Anne McGivern survived the torturous B.C.L. programme and is now training to be a barrister in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 26 | But erm , yes , so I still do n't know what 's happening with that yet , and I 'm waiting also for them to confirm a date for this first sort of Do Business in France seminar , that we 're going to help them with , which was originally going to be February , and is now going to be March . |
| 27 | Largue was an apprentice turner but because of his injuries is now unable to lift heavy objects and is now retraining to be an electronic engineer . |
| 28 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
| 29 | Today there is much public concern about the amount of incest that occurs and is now coming to light . |
| 30 | That 's starting to take er effect and is actually beginning to er , to pay off . |