Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 2 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 3 | Open years are proving to be open wounds for Lloyd 's . |
| 4 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 5 | For this Christmas , the battery-operated WWF Wrestlers are proving to be the best-sellers . |
| 6 | How interesting these Oscars are proving to be . |
| 7 | Recent introductions from America such as N. Charlene Strawn and N. Texas Dawn are proving to be promising and therefore becoming popular . |
| 8 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 9 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 10 | But as yet we 've not had an announcement on those , what those conditions are attaching to the use of the , of the grant . |
| 11 | It moves the word you are typing to a new line when it enters an invisible margin running down the right-hand side of the screen . |
| 12 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 13 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 14 | ALL over Britain , office , shopping and road projects launched in the sunny days of the late 1980s are drawing to a close and building workers , their companies and shareholders are facing the economic equivalent of deep mid-winter . |
| 15 | Now a sinister trend is emerging with the rearrest of some of those whose prison sentences are drawing to an end . |
| 16 | THE school holiday are drawing to a close so take advantage of an offer from Red Funnel ferries and give the kids something to talk about when the new term starts by popping across to the Isle of Wight . |
| 17 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 18 | Effectively , they are competing to be last . |
| 19 | Barnes , 30 , added : ‘ I knew fairly soon that I was out of the Test match and now I am struggling to be fit for the Taranaki game on Wednesday . |
| 20 | Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate ; Northern Electric and carbody manufacturer Vickers Pressings have taken on people recently . |
| 21 | Getting the circulation going ensures you are helping to efficiently pump gallons of blood around your body . |
| 22 | SERAFIN : If by ‘ silly ’ you mean ‘ simple-minded ’ , then take heart , because simple-minded is what we are struggling to be . |
| 23 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 24 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |
| 25 | I often find that parents are inhibiting to young people . ’ |
| 26 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 27 | I wonder if we can get to the point of my question , it may be my fault but I will try again , the reason I am suggesting to you was the decision was made to update the service charges once a year was because if you did n't update the , the existing brochure might mislead , is that right or not ? |
| 28 | Most self-poisoning patients are reacting to crises in interpersonal relationships . |
| 29 | The ‘ ancient pine forests ’ concept is linked to another myth about chemical sensitivity — that patients who are ‘ universal reactors ’ are reacting to all synthetic organic chemicals because they come from a common source . |
| 30 | In other words , they are reacting to the ‘ coalness ’ or ‘ oilness ’ of the chemical , rather than the chemical itself This theory stretches credibility considerably , because synthetic compounds go through so many chemical reactions , distillations and purification procedures that they bear little relationship to their raw materials , let alone to each other . |