Example sentences of "are [adv] [v-ing] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bradford City supporters are constantly writing to the rag complaining of too much coverage for Leeds ( It really does piss them off ) . |
| 2 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 3 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 4 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
| 5 | Such discussions not only take an inordinate amount of time ( a subtle form of disobedience ) , but they are subversive because they are so rewarding to the child . |
| 6 | Spokesman Sylvia Rigby said : ‘ They seem to think we are only objecting to the level of the charge but we are against it all together . ’ |
| 7 | This is the stage to take decisive action , because by ignoring this threat gesture , you are merely acquiescing to the dog s challenge , and adopting a subordinate position . |
| 8 | Some of these are already leading to the introduction of modular courses in arts subjects , as well as cross-arts initiatives . |
| 9 | Companies like Intermedia and Altertext exist solely to serve this market and are ever adding to the range of formats that they can handle . |
| 10 | I get to the fence leading downhill and follow it , stumbling now and again on the rocks and stones left at the side of the field ; my eyes are still adjusting to the darkness . |
| 11 | The campaign has been launched in part because of what Greenpeace calls the government 's failure to back alternatives to chlorine-based technology and instead to encourage the use of HCFCs , which are still damaging to the ozone layer . |
| 12 | Such arrangements , although of advantage to the enterprises concerned , are clearly damaging to the rest of the economy . |
| 13 | HCFCs are also damaging to the ozone layer , albeit less so than CFCs . |
| 14 | Children are also reacting to the pressure on individuals to compete and succeed , he said . |
| 15 | Er , Council are also agreeing to the road and a District Council are in agreement with the road , albeit that they have asked for the road to follow more closely to the erm but I believe it is acceptable that the road and the line of the road in general principle is . |
| 16 | Er G E C Marconi 's are the leader of a consortium , a four nation consortium of companies that are supplying the computer and are also contributing to the software . |
| 17 | Maryland and Rice Universities are also contributing to the work , which is being carried out as part of the National Science Foundation 's Center for Research in Parallel Computation . |
| 18 | When God 's word on some matter comes to us in repeated form in different ways , it is worth reflecting whether we are really attending to the influence it is intended to have upon our beliefs and behaviour . |
| 19 | And they are now getting to the point where they are are popular as the folders in terms of |
| 20 | Sales were focused first on the East Coats , then the West Coast and are now spreading to the Gulf of Mexico , pulling in new business — currently worth about £1 million a year — at a time when marine growth is static . |
| 21 | Those at the conference table are not Palestine Liberation Organisation representatives working out of Tunis but people who actually live in the occupied territories , who have been deprived of their homeland , as they see it , and who are now looking to the future and trying to negotiate some kind of settlement . |
| 22 | We are now coming to the time of the year when paddlers start competing again in marathons and it would be nice to remember the ancient Greeks who started it all off . |
| 23 | We enjoyed it so much we are now going to the rock 'n' roll class on Wednesday evenings at . |
| 24 | So books that seek to inform the public about illness are simply adding to the problem . |
| 25 | Constitutional expert Harold Brooks-Baker , of Burke 's Peerage , said : ‘ I feel that Buckingham Palace should be prepared to deny some of these stories which are potentially threatening to the monarchy . ’ |