Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate ; Northern Electric and carbody manufacturer Vickers Pressings have taken on people recently . |
| 2 | To teach effectively teachers must therefore be aware of facets of the child 's life which are contributing to tension and disquiet . |
| 3 | Or or catch all scapegoat when there are these other factors involved which are contributing to health problems |
| 4 | Julian Hopkins , national director of international relief agency CARE , who travelled with the Mirror team , said : ‘ To see that huge amount of food lying idle in Mogadishu while thousands of babies and young children are starving to death is an outrage . |
| 5 | If you are returning to work after child or relative care , try to ensure that you can earn enough in the remainder of that tax year to take you above the lower earnings limit . |
| 6 | If you are returning to work in your thirties or later , it is very likely that your boss could be younger than you . |
| 7 | Commons are scattered throughout the county , and although rights of common are fiercely defended they are rarely exercised , and many commons are returning to woodland . |
| 8 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 9 | A TRIAL was halted yesterday after complaints that magistrates had fallen asleep when they should have been listening to evidence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You 've been listening to loverboy , that 's all ! ’ |
| 12 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 15 | Similarly , workfare might expose people to the stigma and frequent humiliations that are damaging to health . |
| 16 | You had to be ‘ circumspect in identifying where such people that are aspiring to democracy … are … important to us . ’ |
| 17 | I am writing to second her proposal ! ! |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the meantime , Mallett have cut costs and are looking to turnover of £1.2 million per month to haul themselves back towards profitability . |
| 22 | The claim is sometimes made of a lack of continuity in policy which has been damaging to growth : in particular , that political changes have inhibited consistent action by civil servants . |
| 23 | The move will outrage environmental organisations which claim that the Department of the Environment and the Scottish Office are bowing to pressure from vested interest groups — principally builders and lenders . |
| 24 | Anyway , if you 're goin' to tea with the toffs you 'd better get scrubbed down and pick out some decent clothes . ’ |
| 25 | Despite the protest they 're sticking to location and design |
| 26 | ‘ And you 're reverting to type , sweetheart . |
| 27 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 28 | The trouble is if you start using it then everybody else thinks you 're listening to music and they 'll start bring theirs in . |
| 29 | You 're listening to Dial David Johnston on Max A M. |
| 30 | You 're listening to Dial David Johnston , Max A M. |