Example sentences of "are [v-ing] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Most of them are sticking to a policy , adopted during the Falklands war , of not stocking war games until the war is over . |
2 | bank statements for the last twelve months if you are applying to a bank other than your own ; |
3 | If you are writing to a woman whose marital status you are unaware of , then the title Ms can be used . |
4 | If we are listening to a story and somebody says So I ate it we may well know the meaning of it from somewhere earlier in the story . |
5 | Note-taking aids concentration when you are listening to a lecture , watching a video or reading a book or article . |
6 | If you are replying to a letter , please mention the writer 's name and the date of the magazine in which it appeared . |
7 | the impact of current pressures within the broadcasting environment on those values , and the way they are leading to a parting of the ways and , most particularly , |
8 | If you are going to a part of the world which is rife with certain diseases then investigate with your doctor beforehand as to whether you should have vaccinations . |
9 | The Channings are going to a wingding at Barton Keller 's joint tonight . |
10 | His parents are going to a wedding in Croydon . |
11 | We are going to a tribunal on Tuesday to buy a keeper with a lot of potential — but that 's all he is at the moment , a lot of potential . ’ |
12 | ‘ Oh , me and Joanie are going to a party tonight . ’ |
13 | They are going to a planet celled Malecandra ( which turns out to be Mars ) and , having made a previous recce there , they are under the impression that the inhabitants are fierce and eat men . |
14 | So in turning to social processes outside employment , we are shifting to a sphere of study which has been well trodden by urban sociology . |
15 | Still , in focusing on the collective character of disputes , we are moving to a level of analysis that includes the wider framework of economic and political changes . |
16 | We are moving to a system in which patients are accompanied by the money to finance their treatment . |
17 | If you are nervous before having to use your voice , whether you are speaking to a conference or about to ask the bank manager for a loan , the first secret of success is to feel those nerves instead of tensing yourself against them . |
18 | This tip can also be useful for utilities such as third party print spoolers and other programs that need to ‘ see ’ what you are sending to a port . |
19 | I do n't mind dropping in and saying , hello , we we are getting to a size where , er I think it 's speci slightly impractical , I mean er I can see there was so might be useful to know there 's a new member of staff here , it 's either then say there was somebody wandering around , who are you and what are you doing here . |
20 | This yields 5.15 per cent , at the moment , but we are getting to a situation in the market which will probably be good news for the fund manager 's philosophy . |
21 | Allowed to choose for themselves under feral conditions , nearly all offspring arrive at a time when nutritional inputs to the dam are rising to a maximum , ie optimum grass growth . |
22 | We are grinding to a halt on those are n't we ? |
23 | The fact that they are performing to a camera instead of just for the teacher or the rest of the class makes the whole thing less artificial . |
24 | He says that the children are responding to a need in themselves , and believes that many adults do n't make the time to slow down and think about what they really need . |
25 | For instance , If you are talking to a neighbour and he or she seems in no particular rush , then invite him or her in for an impromptu cup of something . |
26 | ‘ You are talking to a Minister of the Crown , in case you 've forgotten . |
27 | When you are talking to a teacher in school , you speak and act in a different way from when you are talking to your friends out of school . |
28 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
29 | When we speak of ‘ the idea we have of people ’ , we are referring to a kind of picture of them we carry in our minds . |
30 | Because we are working to a ceiling . |