Example sentences of "is [adv] [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wait until September before she starts another novel is mostly owing to her publicity commitments . |
| 2 | The whole idea of large hospitals for the mentally handicapped is indefensible : there is evidence that many patients do not need , and do not receive , treatment , and a hospital routine is wholly damaging to them . |
| 3 | He is constantly talking to you about your performance , about how you are reacting , building up your confidence throughout the training session . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Taking pills or powders for headaches and stomach upsets is only adding to your system 's toxicity . |
| 6 | Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening . |
| 7 | Miss is just saying to me that a quick review of her chart , er could indicate that we have n't got any clear er how shall I say , clear indication , using the same word twice , that would point us to one sector only . |
| 8 | It seems to me that a correct understanding of human evolution is very relevant to projects of this kind , but that the effect of that understanding is largely discouraging to them . |
| 9 | The government is still sticking to its account , which names 10 dead and a further 37 detained . |
| 10 | Sun is still clinging to its promised fourth quarter delivery date for the multi-processors ( UX No 385 ) , but admits that may slip to the beginning of next year . |
| 11 | Anne is probably coming to us still on |
| 12 | Claire is really talking to herself . |
| 13 | This is often exactly what the panic attack victim thinks and does when they have no idea what is really happening to them . |
| 14 | PX/Iris GL is based upon version 4.0 of SGI 's environment and will migrate to version 5.0 reference implementations — with the OpenGL programming interface — which SGI is now delivering to its OEMs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 17 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 18 | They will want to place the promises that Labour is now making to them in that historical context . |
| 19 | Intel Corp is reportedly talking to anyone with cooling technology for its overheated Pentiums . |
| 20 | Had the besweatered Pakistanis held their catches there is no knowing to what depths of despair England might have sunk that evening . |
| 21 | Jo is actually speaking to me now . |
| 22 | They are some seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds less than is explicitly coming to us , either through the grant that 's coming into the S S A , the base , or the new specific grant . |
| 23 | The epoch when the writer photographed the life about him with the mechanics of words redolent of the daguerrotype , is happily drawing to its close . |
| 24 | What is therefore owing to it , what is ‘ in its interest ’ are our custodial duties of care and protection . |