Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] was [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants warned that the immigration authorities ' ’ cold and brutal ’ treatment of asylum seekers was leading to a dangerously volatile situation . |
| 2 | Here the whole of the site was lightly cordoned off , and one of the Park Attendants was talking to ( the newly promoted ) Sergeant Dixon as Morse and Lewis moved alongside . |
| 3 | Pearson , who had suggested that proposed legislation on business licences was damaging to Australian interests and could affect the level of Australian aid to Vanuatu , was ordered to leave the country within 24 hours . |
| 4 | Campaign co-ordinator of Friends of the Earth , Andrew Lees , said the report confirmed that the government 's failure to control intensive farming practices was leading to the destruction of the Norfolk Broads . |
| 5 | During the early 1980s , expenditure on the grands projets in Paris was so large that from 1980 to 1983 less than one-fifth of central government funds was going to the provinces . |
| 6 | And I went in there , and asked for their tailoring department and er er I found out after that I was just dead lucky , one of their trouser finishers was going to er leave , she was getting married , and she was leaving and erm although you did n't have to leave then , she she she sort of had got to leave , so er I just fell lucky , there . |
| 7 | One of the quarry men was pointing to the wrecked truck and shouting at the others . |
| 8 | However , in an optimistic assessment following a G-7 Finance Ministers ' meeting on July 15 , the US Treasury Secretary , Nicholas Brady , said that the recent fall in the cost of borrowing in the UK [ see p. 38355 ] and Japan indicated that the aim of lower interest rates was beginning to be achieved . |