Example sentences of "is [v-ing] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 2 | The Minister , however , does not give a damn about what is happening to people on the lowest incomes ; he does not even understand what is happening to local government . |
| 3 | What is happening to people 's involvement in work ? |
| 4 | The group might knock heads together but it does n't seem designed to do the equally important job of explaining what is happening to staff and patients . |
| 5 | Smith questions whether the group will be able to explain what is happening to staff and patients and says that it ‘ smells too much of hole in the corner deals . ’ |
| 6 | He is smiling because behind the machine he is not taking the brunt of it , and because he is an earnest yokel who does n't realise what he is doing to people . |
| 7 | Now it is starting to rev its engines with a new Spectrum programme designed to increase Interactive channel sales , preparing the way for Solaris-on-Intel . |
| 8 | Labour is offering to people who are presently enjoying the benefits of compulsory competitive tendering a promise to scrap it . |