Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often find that parents are inhibiting to young people . ’ |
| 2 | Roadside spot checks on car pollution have begun to make sure drivers are sticking to new laws on exhaust fumes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ You are submitting to male domination ? ’ he asked drily . |
| 5 | I WAS so pleased to read that people are reverting to real Christmas trees instead of the ghastly , glittering artificial things that have been popular for so long . |
| 6 | PLANNERS are contributing to chronic unemployment and decay in north Belfast , the Green Party has claimed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Experimentalists , on the other hand , are excited by the demonstration of electron motion under previously hypothetical conditions , and are looking to other devices where the same effects can appear in less stringent experimental circumstances . |
| 9 | Few venture capitalists feel that the UK equity market has the effervescence to be able to generate the level of returns seen in the past , and so are looking to continental buyers to supply the exit opportunities for cleanly-structured , discrete , well-managed UK companies . |
| 10 | This now means that many institutions no longer have the business and technological skills in-house to take on large systems integration projects , and are looking to external providers to save them money on services and hardware . |
| 11 | I mean and usually it will you see most people are looking to past students when they mark . |
| 12 | Rafiq was studying his magazine with the kind of intense concentration often assumed by those who are listening to other people 's conversations . |
| 13 | So many record companies are only interested in kids — but there has been a change , more people are listening to classical type music at an earlier age . |
| 14 | they 're pandering to ghoulish voyeurism . |
| 15 | We 're looking to local authorities , business and commerce , the professions and the armed forces . ’ |
| 16 | Cos you 're going to real effort are you ? |
| 17 | If you 're going to effing bingo and Dave 's going to effing bingo , we can all go out up in my car , the girls can and have to squeeze up in the back of the car . |
| 18 | We 're going to bloody |
| 19 | ‘ You 're going to fine me , right ? |
| 20 | They 're going to liven things up around here . |
| 21 | Yes they 're going to Methodist church , then they 're gon na that |
| 22 | Well , the concern is to er , punish the children in a way , that they will realise they 're going to wrong way . |
| 23 | We 're going to happy until five at this rate . |
| 24 | You 're going to National Tyres on North Bridge . |
| 25 | We 're going to soft play tomorrow . |
| 26 | Tomorrow we 're going to soft play not today . |
| 27 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 28 | ‘ They 're doing to small-time corruption what the multinational corporations are doing to small-time business , ’ a cynical Sardinian friend had once remarked apropos of the latest initiative to dean up the police . |
| 29 | It 's inadequate er and it it creates the impression in my mind , the very possibility that the government is actually is in favour of fraud because they 're doing to little , far too little er and these regulations are far too little er to actually stop it down . |
| 30 | Oh , we 're coming to negative numbers . |