Example sentences of "is [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991-92 , the TDC had a budget allocation of £51 million , which it is using to great effect . |
| 2 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 3 | Both are there but it has no effect on plane polarised light , for instance , like , as if one of them is trying to rotate it to the left by so many degrees and the other one is rotating to the right by the said the amount . |
| 4 | A packed run of the ‘ The Wind in the Willows ’ at the National Theatre is drawing to a close , but it is clear that Alan Bennett has launched a new Christmas tradition in London . |
| 5 | The scene of life , Bransby ’ , continued he , ‘ is drawing to a close : although my career has been a most happy one , I feel much less regret than I expected in leaving it , for I have full confidence in the mercy of God . ’ |
| 6 | It is this era which is drawing to a close and , with it , the peculiar mixture of promise and peril which long characterised Soviet life . |
| 7 | As we reported in The Art Newspaper for December 1991 ( No.13 , pp.6–7 ) the boom in museum building that Germany had enjoyed in the Eighties is drawing to a close under the financial pressure of reunification . |
| 8 | In 1838 Captain ( later vice-admiral ) John Washington [ q.v. ] , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society , remarked upon these West African surveys : ‘ this tedious undertaking is drawing to a close , and will then be of equal utility to the fair traders , and to the anti-slavery cruisers . |
| 9 | Who is reaching who is rea John is reacting to the heretics of his day , the gnostics . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps the best thing is that he is reacting to noises and the sound of his name . |
| 11 | What I 'm saying to you is that , that we actually need to find additional money for this , because this is over our budgeted amount if we are to proceed , and I , the clerk is suggesting to us that we do proceed , because he 's concerned on our behalfs . |
| 12 | You will be able to see them opening and closing their huge mouths as they intercept items of food which the current is bringing to them . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr and Mrs Brown ’ , a pair of shuffling shoe trees , is one of several existing works which Horn is bringing to London , but greater attention will concentrate around the four new installations which the artist is creating for the gallery . |
| 14 | RFU secretary Dudley Wood is seeing to the tourists ' security , while South African manager Abie Malan insisted : ‘ Let's get something straight . |
| 15 | Yes Doris is seeing to that |
| 16 | Arghatun is seeing to them . ’ |
| 17 | The company says it is porting to other platforms in September , hinting at ICL and Hewlett Packard . |
| 18 | By encouraging transport users to choose road rather than rail , the Scottish Office is capitulating to the powerful car and construction lobbies , and adding to already unbearable development pressures . |
| 19 | During the process of learning the student is working to achieve something ; knowledge of how close her performance is approximating to the desired goal not only has a motivating effect , but if given in sufficient detail provides information which enables her to adjust her learning nearer to the goal . |
| 20 | McCashin , who is relocating to Europe as part of last November 's corporate reorganisation that placed three vice-presidents in charge of European operations , says he is authorised to spend up to $10m without consulting the company 's finance committee . |
| 21 | The 1990 winners , Credit Suisse First Boston ( Men ) and Bank of England ( Ladies ) , both seeded one this year , are joined by new entrants , Sainsburys and Midland Bank , in what is proving to be an even keener contest than last year . |
| 22 | Football : ‘ Jacki ’ is proving to be a video nicety : Celtic 's Polish import sounds the alarm bells for England as that crucial World Cup encounter in Chorzow beckons : David Livingstone reports on the Scottish liberation of a footballer who has enlivened the Parkhead terraces |
| 23 | This landlocked location is n't the first place you 'd think of for a diving school but the Diver Training College is proving to be very popular . |
| 24 | It may lack a certain flair , it may have a garish badge , it may still be cheap and cheerful inside ( there are now some very attractive leather-look plastics about ) but it is proving to be a reliable , easy-to-drive family car with lots of equipment as standard and rock bottom prices . |
| 25 | Easing inflation is proving to be a painfully slow process and yesterday 's small fall must make any thinking Chancellor wonder whether it is safe to cut interest rates further . |
| 26 | The cost of implementing EC standards is proving to be very serious for Britain 's small and medium sized firms . |
| 27 | It seems that our pursuit of happiness is proving to be much more radical than we bargained for . |
| 28 | Meanwhile — and here is a term that is proving to be particularly confusing — we have had a veritable flurry of activity in the area , or more precisely areas , designated as ‘ information management ’ . |
| 29 | Another strategy — and one which is proving to be very popular in schools with a history of open decision-making — is for the governing body to establish a structure of sub-committees which bring together LEA governors , parent-governors , teacher-governors , co-opted governors , the headteacher and teachers in the making of decisions . |
| 30 | So it is proving to be with the National Curriculum . |