Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At the front , orders and conflicting counter-orders were adding to the general chaos , as was the badly damaged , and anyway inadequate , telephone system . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now , I think we all appreciate that the Liberal and Labour groups are working to another agenda . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Vicars and old ladies are beginning to be in a minority . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Black and White Bail was going to be a winner . |
| 9 | Not only businessmen and white-collar professionals are going to be savaged by Neil Kinnock and John Smith . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The task of relieving avoidable distress and creating a caring and heartening environment in residential and nursing homes is going to be of increasing importance in determining the quality of the last year of people 's lives . |
| 13 | Jean Valjean 's long and tragic life was coming to an end . |
| 14 | Julian Hopkins , national director of international relief agency CARE , who travelled with the Mirror team , said : ‘ To see that huge amount of food lying idle in Mogadishu while thousands of babies and young children are starving to death is an outrage . |
| 15 | Increasingly , people on these and other estates were turning to loan sharks , who offered money even without being asked . |
| 16 | If bees can communicate distances and directions , corrected for wind variations , by their waggle dance on the side of the honeycomb , then may not the birds and other creatures be communicating to each other , in some considerable detail , those things relevant to their personal realities ? |
| 17 | At the end of a day 's banking some banks are going to be more liquid , as a result of net deposits and other banks are going to be less liquid than they were at the beginning of the day 's business , as a result of a net withdrawal of deposits . |
| 18 | As Meredith Tax says , ‘ Feminist and left-wing writing is talking to itself most of the time . ’ |