Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of these tests can seem threatening to the status of the interviewee , in the sense that hidden secrets are going to be discovered . |
| 2 | More often than not , the A&R personnel are working to a brief . |
| 3 | A mother and daughter in the Forest of Dean are writing to more than fifty prisoners in America … including convicted killers on death row . |
| 4 | How interesting these Oscars are proving to be . |
| 5 | In Scotland , for example , prisoners are beginning to be referred to as ‘ customers ’ . |
| 6 | In addition , they say that prisoners are going to be employed in the kitchens to work alongside civilian staff , because recruitment is so difficult . |
| 7 | An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths . |
| 8 | British Airways says that alongside pursuing its own action , the company and chairman Lord King are planning to vigorously defend the defamation case brought by Virgin and Branson . |
| 9 | The Germans are going to the US twice this year in June and December , when they will play games against England , Brazil and the US ( twice ) . |
| 10 | The Government 's current policies are leading to these problems . ’ |
| 11 | Madam Speaker , what er I and my right honourable friend will go on emphasising is the contribution which our tax policies are making to the economic strength and the improved standards of living of this country . |
| 12 | The policies are starting to work , as we 've already heard from Councillor . |
| 13 | Many of the Asian designers the US trade weekly talked to were worried about the 66MHz clock frequency , because at that speed , stray radiations become a serious problem and it is unlikely that garage operations are going to be able to knock up boards using the chip that will work . |
| 14 | The majority of Japanese mobile investment projects and many of the American projects are coming to Britain in preference to anywhere else because Britain has the best environment in which to do business . |
| 15 | They might laugh when I wave my hands in the air , but what they do n't understand is , my fingers are dancing to high hat rhythms . ’ |
| 16 | Sunday dawns and a pile of Brookside scripts are waiting to be memorised but Michael has other ideas . |
| 17 | The general concern expressed about the approach is whether the county courts are going to be able to cope with the significant extra workload . |
| 18 | In the normally austere Hereford Breed , Journal , the owners of the Llandinabo herd claim foreign bulls are leading to the disintegration of the British Hereford by introducing alien blood . |
| 19 | In my opinion , if this is the sort of information that college authorities are feeding to students , not only is it putting the lid on a worthwhile career , but robbing our Institute of future embalmers . |
| 20 | All the same , smuggling routes are being established that could serve more dangerous trades , and customs authorities are beginning to be stretched . |
| 21 | of our member authorities are saying to us that they have recorded instances of eviction . ’ |
| 22 | DALEKS are going to Skye and Lochalsh . |
| 23 | These ponies are going to work in the coldest place on earth — they need a lot of food — more than this ! ’ |
| 24 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 25 | The majority of Tom Troubadour 's opponents are coming to the end of much busier campaigns , and the novice Merry Master may prove the main threat . |
| 26 | With increasing demands on caterers to provide top quality food quickly and efficiently , chefs are turning to well-established equipment manufacturers to provide them with state of the art equipment which will make their job easier . |
| 27 | A lot of future conflicts are going to be fought out on this new cultural terrain and the left needs a better understanding of it . |
| 28 | MORE and more savers are turning to unit trusts as the best place to tuck away their money now that interest rates at banks and building societies are plunging . |
| 29 | Some American artists are responding to the recession by creating more modestly priced works . |
| 30 | Hello , well what 's your mum been doing to you this morning ? |