Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm that 's the doubt and that doubt is going to be either borne out or shown to be wrong by the rest of John Major 's incumbents , so at the moment I 'll certainly give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 2 | As he said this , he noticed that Cowslip had joined them and that Strawberry was talking to him quietly . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think any sentence would really be appropriate but I ca n't bear the thought that he is going to be out one day , and that day is going to be sooner than I thought . |
| 4 | We 're going to be the first men at the South Pole , and that flag is going to be first , too ! ’ |
| 5 | But he thinks Cathy and that lot are going to he thinks Cathy 's a slag and everything , yet he 's still hanging about with all you lot . |
| 6 | In the mid-nineteenth century life expectation was rising , especially for the new middle class , and central and regional authorities were coming to terms with the urban influx , which had changed the face of Britain . |
| 7 | At the front , orders and conflicting counter-orders were adding to the general chaos , as was the badly damaged , and anyway inadequate , telephone system . |
| 8 | Thus for official purposes the old reckoning of 25 March was used , but its employment for unofficial and private purposes was waning to the extent that many documents carried a double indicator for the period 1 January to 24 March , as was illustrated by the inventory quoted in the Historical Year section , above . |
| 9 | Now , I think we all appreciate that the Liberal and Labour groups are working to another agenda . |
| 10 | Toddlers start to fret , and some women are walking to and fro soothing restless babies . |
| 11 | I learned of their decision colleagues last night on television when the Chairman announced at the U D M Conference , who are not involved in this issue at all , that three thousand redundancies of management and clerical staff were going to be made . |
| 12 | ‘ Vicars and old ladies are beginning to be in a minority . |
| 13 | This appears to be confirmed by current trends in Spain , where the development of autonomous regions encompassing health and social care is leading to a strong administrative reform which has , as one of its central objectives , the establishment of primary care services for people suffering from mental illness . |
| 14 | Certainly that one is totally overpowered by the background and these ones are tending to be just a little bit . |
| 15 | The Black and White Bail was going to be a winner . |
| 16 | There is an assumption behind all this that size does matter , which seems to be belied by the fact that IBM 's enormous $60,000m a year bulk has been unable to save the company — but IBM 's problems all arise from the fact that the company 's business is so hopelessly slewed to one sector of the market , with products that fewer and fewer people are going to be happy to own . |
| 17 | Not only businessmen and white-collar professionals are going to be savaged by Neil Kinnock and John Smith . |
| 18 | Therefore , the historian to my mind who is really a lively and stimulating historian is going to be interested in the future as well as in the past . |
| 19 | Commons are scattered throughout the county , and although rights of common are fiercely defended they are rarely exercised , and many commons are returning to woodland . |
| 20 | The public housing sector is currently undergoing rapid change and many commentators are referring to the ‘ residualisation ’ of the sector . |
| 21 | Natural wood is always popular , and many companies are responding to this continued demand by introducing new woods like beech , birch and cherry to their ranges . |
| 22 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 23 | Such an explosion of factionalism and utter selfishness was shocking to all who lived through it , and seemed to threaten our whole way of life . |
| 24 | MORE and more savers are turning to unit trusts as the best place to tuck away their money now that interest rates at banks and building societies are plunging . |
| 25 | MORE and more women are turning to expensive cosmetic surgery to slow down the ageing clock — but as our pictures show , it is n't always a cut above less drastic beauty remedies . |
| 26 | More and more Americans were coming to the conclusion that government itself was a problem — a belief that ‘ clearly squares with established Republican doctrine and thus contributes positively to the fortunes of the GOP ’ . |
| 27 | More and more Retailers are turning to Switch as a way of cutting down queues and offering customers a more convenient way to pay . |
| 28 | More and more people are taking to their bikes as an alternative to driving or using public transport . |
| 29 | ‘ More and more people are looking to this kind of holiday — a bit of walking through spectacular landscapes , punctuated by train rides , ’ says Mark Livock , product manager |
| 30 | More and more people are turning to tablets to help them improve the quality of their sleep but , as you will see , there are simpler and more natural methods which are , at the same time , far more effective . |