Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | bank statements for the last twelve months if you are applying to a bank other than your own ; |
| 32 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 33 | I am praying to the God of Laughter for unconditional mercy . |
| 34 | Allister Hutton , Mike Gratton and Veronique Marot are returning to the course which brought them victory in the eighties and they 'll be joined by Berlin Marathon winner Steve Brace , who is using the London as part of his preparation for Barcelona . |
| 35 | At the advanced age of 71 , Charles Bronson 's wizened features are returning to the big screen . |
| 36 | Can there be a more telling difference between the day when the CBI has confirmed the depth of the recession , unemployment is rising faster than in any other European country , we have a training and skills crisis , which the Government are making worse daily , and the fact that the Conservatives are returning to the agenda of the 1970s because they have no answers to the problems of the 1990s ? |
| 37 | Prism has worked with a very wide variety of groups including the elderly , people with learning difficulties or physical handicap , those recovering from mental illness and those who care for and enable groups who are returning to the community . |
| 38 | The King and Queen ( who like very special and unusual food ) are returning to the Castle . |
| 39 | The planes are returning to the United States , although F-One-Eleven fighter bombers are staying on . |
| 40 | Although passengers are returning to the air — numbers carried by BA rose 7.3 per cent to 6.18 million in the quarter — the increase is not matching the rise in BA 's capacity , which jumped 11 per cent over the same period . |
| 41 | this explains why Golding 's choice of ending , rescue , is not anti-climatic as the choristers and schoolboys are returning to the same situation back in the outside world . |
| 42 | In the long run , persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy . |
| 43 | I emphasise that I do not believe that it is right to agree to measures which are damaging to the Scottish or to the British economy , and we have not done so . |
| 44 | The aim of the book is to generate awareness of office supplies that are damaging to the environment and promote the purchase of more environment-friendly products such as recycled paper , non-tropical hardwood desks etc . |
| 45 | We are aspiring to the state of village idiots , to whom everything is a source of amazement . |
| 46 | If you are writing to a woman whose marital status you are unaware of , then the title Ms can be used . |
| 47 | AN outraged couple are writing to the Prime Minister after a teenage drink driver who wrecked their £9,000 dream car was fined just £22 . |
| 48 | EXTERNAL VERIFICATION is the process by which SCOTVEC ensures that , on a national basis , centres are operating to the same standard . |
| 49 | Too often their proceedings are confusing to the ordinary person and the quality of judgement at such tribunals is reportedly inconsistent . |
| 50 | ‘ Unfortunately , his personal secretary said she did not think he could become actively involved , but I am writing to the Prime Minister Mr Major and George Howard , the Environment Secretary , seeking their support . ’ |
| 51 | Women are looking to a new generation of gutsy , sexy heroines . |
| 52 | And Homeless and helpless … the war victims who are looking to a local charity . |
| 53 | Several of our brightest chefs , often trained in French methods , are looking to the Mediterranean for inspiration . |
| 54 | The fear of Cardiff 's rivals is that , without the same resources , they can only lose in a transfer war , and some are looking to the Welsh Rugby Union for legislative salvation . |
| 55 | Presently , we are looking to the completion of the scheme , either as flats or possibly as a small hotel or restaurant . |
| 56 | for no one concerned with education could deny that , in teaching , teachers are looking to the future of the child . |
| 57 | Now that help is urgently needed to stem the threatened spread of AIDS , some governments are looking to the churches to put forward a limiting view of sex . |
| 58 | This is particularly bad in London and , as a result , dissatisfied clients are looking to the merits of regionally-based firms . |
| 59 | ‘ We are looking to the government for a fundamental change in attitudes towards training . ’ |
| 60 | But after 40 years of post-war public sector housing there is now evidence of widespread rejection , and some community groups are looking to the promise of community architecture ( Wates and Knevitt , 1987 ) . |