Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This belief in a woman 's heightened sexuality during her period may also have contributed to her being considered dangerous and hence polluting to all males . |
| 2 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 3 | We may certainly talk of animals , in the absence of speech , ‘ consciously intending ’ or being compassionate , both of which carry implications of understanding to some degree . |
| 4 | One till three as well the Special Needs Support Group are meeting at Ilkeston Health Centre and they offer mutual support and understanding to those parents who have children with special needs . |
| 5 | Lawrence , who , besides representing to many of his admirers in political circles the very quintessence of those qualities on which the successful transformation of empire into Commonwealth would depend , was an imperial hero to the British public . |
| 6 | Every teacher who makes excessive sacrifices in the time and attention needed for his own personal growth to the demands of the organisation within which he works or to its students is ultimately denying to that organisation and those students the very knowledge , understanding and skill which it is his professional responsibility to offer . |
| 7 | ‘ This place we 're going to , it 's in Mariánské Láznë ? ’ she thought she should enquire , since it seemed they would not be walking to this lunchtime venue . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
| 9 | Let's now come back to this quiff analysis where John was confused and everyone was explaining to each other . |
| 10 | The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him . |
| 11 | In setting up such a scheme great care needs to be taken in explaining to all participants the rationale behind the decision and the positive gains involved . |
| 12 | One lad with us , a genuine Cockney , finished up by explaining to this ( probably normally ) mild-mannered Italian who spoke no English at all that we could n't pay because we were ‘ borassic ’ . |
| 13 | In other words , they take into account such information as what is happening to the money supply ( assuming that they believe , money supply growth to be a cause of inflation ) and what is happening to such factors as world oil prices , trade union militancy and the exchange rate ( depending on which of these are perceived as major determinants of inflation ) . |
| 14 | She has offered her plight as an example of what is happening to many small producers . |
| 15 | What is happening to all the waste ? |
| 16 | But as we 're seeing it 's happening to all sorts of people . |
| 17 | And something was happening to that door ; something that he could n't make out , because it was screened by their bodies . |
| 18 | The bridge was like a symbol which suddenly made me realise what is happening to that country . |
| 19 | What on earth was happening to that girl she had left behind in London ? |
| 20 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 21 | So what is happening to that money ? |
| 22 | ‘ It 's happening to both of us ! ’ he bit out . |
| 23 | I do n't know what 's happening to this place . ’ |
| 24 | What 's happening to this house ? ’ and Agnes , as she made her way to the linen cupboard , called back over her shoulder , ‘ You 've got the answer to that , Mother , if you dare to face up to it , ’ which left Alice Conway open-mouthed and dumb . |
| 25 | Now if it 's tablets they 've taken we do n't do whatever Angie did years ago in , in Eastenders and , and then she 's walked up and down and given gallons of coffee , what you do is keep your casualty at rest , nil by mouth because you , if you give them any fluid whatsoever it 's going to dilate , dilute the tablets that are in the stomach , and once they 're diluted they 've gone into the system quicker , mm , so there 's nil by mouth , now if you 're going to get up and walk them up and down because come on you must walk up and down , what 's happening to this per these tablets ? |
| 26 | At least your writing to us may prevent the same thing happening to another reader . |
| 27 | In the middle years of the 1790s Wordsworth observed what was happening to some of the cottagers and cared about it ; like a good journalist , he called attention to outstanding cases in The Female Vagrant and The Ruined Cottage . |
| 28 | But look at individuals , rather than averages , and you see interesting things happening to some of the peasants ' lives . |
| 29 | Well look what 's happening to these test papers . |
| 30 | False cases offset under-reporting to some extent . |