Example sentences of "it is [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991-92 , the TDC had a budget allocation of £51 million , which it is using to great effect . |
| 2 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 3 | Balcon , for one , was not aware of any frustration on the part of his filmmakers , unless he was dishonest when remarking in his autobiography , ‘ It is puzzling to me in retrospect that none of my films … in any way reflected the despair of the times in which we were living . ’ |
| 4 | To attack the predator while it is in a stable position on the ground is far riskier than to do so when it is clinging to high branches . |
| 5 | It may lack a certain flair , it may have a garish badge , it may still be cheap and cheerful inside ( there are now some very attractive leather-look plastics about ) but it is proving to be a reliable , easy-to-drive family car with lots of equipment as standard and rock bottom prices . |
| 6 | So it is proving to be with the National Curriculum . |
| 7 | To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments . |
| 8 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 9 | Weeping it is weeping to be life |
| 10 | If our body is becoming too warm — through sunbathing , for example — then the air is a ‘ pleasant breeze' ; if it is tending to be rather cool — seated in wintertime — then the air is a ‘ draught ’ . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ People from all over the country , people we have never heard of , have been good enough to sit down and write lengthy letters , to send flowers at great expense to a boy , just saying Tim Parry , Warrington , Cheshire , and it is getting to the house . |
| 12 | Ultraviolet can cause skin cancers and cataracts ( and probably other ailments ) in humans and it is damaging to plants and marine life . |
| 13 | It is damaging to a mother to go on living through her children 's lives . |
| 14 | There is a feeling that it is damaging to the community if the uncertainty carries on too long . ’ |
| 15 | In these sorts of circumstances , the teacher 's predominant practical concern is not with the learning experiences of individual students , but with the overall ‘ instructional flow ’ of the lesson with how well it is proceeding to its intended conclusion and maintaining order as it does so . |
| 16 | After all , it is flattering to a hard-working policeman to think that someone as glamorous , or glamorous-seeming , as an author wants to know about his dull daily life . |
| 17 | A large proportion of the advertising in these markets , is , inevitably , in some sense , ‘ reminder ’ advertising — which , again , should not need much in the way of information , since it is preaching to the converted . |
| 18 | Even though Ptr1 exists , the variable it is pointing to ( dynamic or referenced variable ) does not . |
| 19 | The company says it is porting to other platforms in September , hinting at ICL and Hewlett Packard . |
| 20 | By comparison with the intellectual patriarchs of Anglo-Saxon democracy , it is astounding to what degree the patron saints of Soviet Communism , Marx and Engels , made war — interstate and civil — an object of study and the raw materials for their theories and insights . |
| 21 | It is spreading to other firms too , as banks weed out their client lists in order to raise profits and cut asset growth . |
| 22 | It is spreading to Derry , Newry , Armagh , Carrickfergus and Ballymoney , and throughout the length and breadth of Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | In what sounds like computer industry heresy , Gupta Corp , Menlo Park told Reuter that it is looking to higher prices for its more advanced software products to help it achieve sharply higher earnings in 1993 : ‘ Our prices are going up as the functionality and performance of our software increases along with the functionality and performance of personal computer networks , ’ chief executive Umang Gupta said ; the company will introduce two new versions of its SQLWindows 4.0 software later this month ; the standard version at $2,000 , a more advanced one at $3,500 ; he says its only prices going down were for communications routing software . |
| 24 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 25 | Scanning electron microscopy ( SEM ) is becoming an increasingly useful tool for furthering archaeological knowledge , and it is beginning to be applied to various aspects of archaeological work . |
| 26 | It is beginning to be recognised that proficiency in more than one language often carries with it the need to be what one might term ‘ crosslingual ’ , that is , able to generate connections across languages rather than only using them independently of each other . |
| 27 | and they are beginning to put a new system in its place so that it , it is beginning to be revolutionary a an and restorat a restorationist approach can lead on to revolution . |
| 28 | It is according to the book , which is our sort of bible on the matter , for celebration and vision , for fellowship , exploration and discernment of opportunities and tasks with broad participation from all member churches and others to amplify and strengthen the whole movement of ACTS . |
| 29 | It is according to my watch anyway . |
| 30 | It is according to this . |