Example sentences of "are [v-ing] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 2 | It moves the word you are typing to a new line when it enters an invisible margin running down the right-hand side of the screen . |
| 3 | ALL over Britain , office , shopping and road projects launched in the sunny days of the late 1980s are drawing to a close and building workers , their companies and shareholders are facing the economic equivalent of deep mid-winter . |
| 4 | THE school holiday are drawing to a close so take advantage of an offer from Red Funnel ferries and give the kids something to talk about when the new term starts by popping across to the Isle of Wight . |
| 5 | Most of them are sticking to a policy , adopted during the Falklands war , of not stocking war games until the war is over . |
| 6 | The Director of the State Historical Library , Mikhail Afanas'yev , has confessed in an interview with the newspaper Kuranty that , ‘ Books from captured German holdings are perishing to a limited extent ’ . |
| 7 | SKIERS from the Middle East are praying to a new Mecca , the holy shrine of — Inverness . |
| 8 | bank statements for the last twelve months if you are applying to a bank other than your own ; |
| 9 | If you are writing to a woman whose marital status you are unaware of , then the title Ms can be used . |
| 10 | Women are looking to a new generation of gutsy , sexy heroines . |
| 11 | And Homeless and helpless … the war victims who are looking to a local charity . |
| 12 | Surely not , because we feel that we are listening to a true story of a real person , and if we grant this , then feelings connected with relieving distress are more likely to arise in us than purely poetic emotions . |
| 13 | If we do pay attention to his thought we feel we are listening to a public orator of unimpeachably orthodox Christian principles , a Poet Laureate in training — he did not in fact attain this honour until the reign of Queen Victoria in 1843 . |
| 14 | Note-taking aids concentration when you are listening to a lecture , watching a video or reading a book or article . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When it is obvious that the other 11 Governments are prepared to accept the draft before them at Maastricht today and that this Government are not , the Government are confessing to a unique combination of political prejudice and economic weakness which marks them out from the rest of the Community and which marks Britain down in the Community . |
| 17 | Then it is difficult to get a lot/make a profit if you are selling to a smaller club . |
| 18 | If you or your children are turning to a vegetarian diet , Roselyn Masselin has lots of advice and recipes for the whole family . |
| 19 | Gardeners looking for something different are turning to a new hobby … growing meat-eating plants . |
| 20 | If you are replying to a letter , please mention the writer 's name and the date of the magazine in which it appeared . |
| 21 | 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 , |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His parents are going to a wedding in Croydon . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There is no need to weigh yourself down with excessive amounts of toiletries unless you are going to a remote area without either chemists or supermarkets . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Somewhere in the late 1990s , these kinds of personal devices are going to a terrific impact on the world , ’ Sculley said . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , me and Joanie are going to a party tonight . ’ |
| 29 | The Channings are going to a wingding at Barton Keller 's joint tonight . |
| 30 | Whilst the output from a LaserWriter or similar PostScript page printer is barely acceptable the image control facility is extremely useful if you are going to a Linotronic typesetter for final output . |