Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 32 | A TRIAL was halted yesterday after complaints that magistrates had fallen asleep when they should have been listening to evidence . |
| 33 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 34 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 35 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 36 | You 've been listening to loverboy , that 's all ! ’ |
| 37 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 38 | ‘ It 's funny how one associates places with irrelevant things , ’ said Penelope , who had been listening to Sophia 's probings with a kind of fascinated horror . |
| 39 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 40 | But I feel it incumbent upon me ( I have been listening to chairmen 's speeches ) to bring up the subject for one last time because of a letter from a reader in Nigeria . |
| 41 | That huge estate in Scotland — ; I 've been listening to Mamma and Mrs Talbot with half an ear , you never know what you might miss — and you do n't hunt . ’ |
| 42 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 43 | Right hon. and hon. Members are failing to remember in how many criminal trials it happens , often necessarily , that allegations are made by the prosecution or defence which are damaging to persons who are not immediately before the court . |
| 44 | Similarly , workfare might expose people to the stigma and frequent humiliations that are damaging to health . |
| 45 | You had to be ‘ circumspect in identifying where such people that are aspiring to democracy … are … important to us . ’ |
| 46 | Direct flights are operating to Frankfurt from London , East Midlands , Birmingham , Manchester and Glasgow . |
| 47 | I am writing to second her proposal ! ! |
| 48 | However , I am writing to Alan Harlow to state our disappointment ; to point out that we can not continue to pay subscriptions if the grant is not increased ; that we are doing our best to find sponsorship ( I 've written , on my own initiative , to 3 companies who might be willing to help , on environmental grounds ) ; that sponsorship from SNH is pretty unlikely , a ) because they do n't do any core funding , and b ) because the NCC element appears to be dominant there anyway ; that sponsorship from the Sports Council is also unlikely , though we are seeking a meeting with Terry Dowey of SSA as soon as possible . |
| 49 | The reason I am writing to Mamma is to show her that I know my duty and that I am with the deepest respect her devoted son . ’ |
| 50 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 51 | The pair are looking to businesses and local traders in the areas they are running through to offer support , either by making direct or sponsored cash contributions , or by donating equipment . |
| 52 | ‘ Britain 's influence is much weaker and countries are looking to Germany for a lead , ’ he said . |
| 53 | THE WORLD 'S leading space explorers are looking to Europe for help in probing new corners of the Solar System over the next two decades . |
| 54 | ‘ The household priests are looking to Osiris for guidance . |
| 55 | Many organisations in fact are overwhelmed by a superabundance of communications and some are looking to computerisation to solve some of the problems created by information bombardment . |
| 56 | Although object technology is ‘ a major technical change to the system , ’ Bourne says that SunSoft 's approach is very different from other efforts such as the IBM-Apple Computer Inc Taligent venture or Microsoft Corp 's Cairo because they are looking to reusability and faster time to market for applications as an end result . |
| 57 | A group of woman so poor they are forced to scavenge coal dust from the sea are looking to Oxfam to help them to create a better life . |
| 58 | In the meantime , Mallett have cut costs and are looking to turnover of £1.2 million per month to haul themselves back towards profitability . |
| 59 | There is little evidence to support such explanations , which are insulting to women in that they are viewed as faulty biological mechanisms which spend some of their time malfunctioning . |
| 60 | The cash crisis facing developing countries means that lending organisations , such as the World Bank , are listening to Reddy . |