Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [pron] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | PC Week quotes Microsoft 's vice president , systems strategy John Lazarus as saying that IBM has rights under a previously secret codicil in their settlement last month to port NT to the RS/6000 : Microsoft is encouraging them to do it . |
| 2 | AFRC 's change in direction , forced on it by the government 's withdrawal from ‘ near market ’ research , is allowing it to do more of this exciting fundamental research . |
| 3 | I i in a way , way th that they 're going beyond it not because the Party 's encouraging them to do it , but because they 're doing it themselves . |
| 4 | Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve . |
| 5 | Councillor regrets that er we 're bringing council rents up by nine and half percent but what we 're doing is in fact precisely what his government is recommending us to do , so I 'm a little sup so would councillor kindly at some point explain why he regrets his own government 's policy . |
| 6 | If only one of those people is wondering what to do on a Friday night , thumbs through the listings , spots your band 's name , and thinks ‘ I 've heard of that band , they must be worth seeing ’ , that sticker , which cost you less than a penny , has been very cost effective . |
| 7 | Now if anybody 's finished and is wondering what to do check through and make sure everything is up to date . |
| 8 | According to chairman Peter Johnson , the only problem facing Birkenhead-based Park Foods is deciding what to do with their spare cash . |
| 9 | If we go back to the criterion of incompetence described at the outset , their actions are incompetent in the sense that they produce what they do not intend , and they do so repeatedly , even though no one is forcing them to do so . |
| 10 | And erm the really distressing thing is I think Christopher is saying what to do now I think he is saying oh you know |
| 11 | The upper house is controlled by a Socialist opposition totally against both the war and Japan 's having anything to do with it . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe the Lord is asking me to do a Discipleship Training School ( YWAM ) . |
| 13 | Even where you have to answer set questions — as in an exam — a choice between alternatives usually has to be made ; and not only do you have to pick a particular question to answer , but you also have to decide exactly what it is that the question is asking you to do . |
| 14 | The order of the book as laid out is thus merely a façade , disguising a deeper , underlying order , and , in effect , what Cortázar is inviting us to do is to throw off our habitual passiveness , to reject the given and to join him and Oliveira in their quest for a different , more authentic order . |
| 15 | ‘ Life is inviting you to do something ! |
| 16 | That 's how long it 's taking you to do on the paper . |
| 17 | And that means that from then on your life is n't your own , you do n't do what you want to do , you do what you believe God is telling you to do and you try to live by what the bible says and you pray about any important decision you make and then , when God has shown you what the right thing is to do , even when you 're going through very hard times , you know that you 're there because that 's where God wants you to be and that gives you faith to carry on . |
| 18 | I mean what he 's done what the director 's telling him to do . |
| 19 | he 's telling you to do your collar up , stupid boy , eh ? |