Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [be] [v-ing] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operating schedules inevitably put pressure on aircraft down time and because aircraft manufacturers are operating to maximum capacity producing new aircraft , spare parts may also become difficult to obtain particularly for the more mature aircraft types . |
| 2 | Scum fans are getting to cocky , unfortunatly I have a few friends and relatives who have not yet seen the light , They think they are unbeatable at the moment and could do the domestic treble . |
| 3 | The destruction of peat bogs is contributing to global warming , according to a report commissioned by Friends of the Earth and prepared by the Wetland Ecosystems Research Group of Exeter University . |
| 4 | Pearson , who had suggested that proposed legislation on business licences was damaging to Australian interests and could affect the level of Australian aid to Vanuatu , was ordered to leave the country within 24 hours . |
| 5 | The problem is particularly acute in poor rural areas such as Kwazulu and the Transkei , where fuelwood needs are leading to rapid depletion . |
| 6 | Asset values are falling to such an extent that it is inevitable many companies will break their covenants . |
| 7 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |
| 8 | MOVEMENTS by tankers in the past two weeks suggest that leading oil exporters are sticking to new limits on production , according to the Middle East Economic Survey . |
| 9 | But the miners ' strike did not only reveal that èlite groups of police officers were operating to some extent under national co-ordination and control . |
| 10 | Software suppliers are going to some lengths to make their Windows product sets work in a uniform way , with the same icons , toolbars and so forth . |