Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often find that parents are inhibiting to young people . ’ |
| 2 | Dirk has been farming to biodynamic and organic principles at Busses Farm since 1978 and holds the Soil Association Symbol on the milk from his dairy herd and yoghurt . |
| 3 | Roadside spot checks on car pollution have begun to make sure drivers are sticking to new laws on exhaust fumes . |
| 4 | MOVEMENTS by tankers in the past two weeks suggest that leading oil exporters are sticking to new limits on production , according to the Middle East Economic Survey . |
| 5 | ‘ You are submitting to male domination ? ’ he asked drily . |
| 6 | I WAS so pleased to read that people are reverting to real Christmas trees instead of the ghastly , glittering artificial things that have been popular for so long . |
| 7 | PLANNERS are contributing to chronic unemployment and decay in north Belfast , the Green Party has claimed . |
| 8 | I 'd like to know who cut the strings of her tennis racket too , the first formers looked at one another , it certainly is queer the way things have been happening to poor Mary Lou lately , even her prayer book had disappeared and some of her pencils had gone . |
| 9 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 10 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 11 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 12 | Has been writing to big businesses for money to help their funds . |
| 13 | Operating schedules inevitably put pressure on aircraft down time and because aircraft manufacturers are operating to maximum capacity producing new aircraft , spare parts may also become difficult to obtain particularly for the more mature aircraft types . |
| 14 | Experimentalists , on the other hand , are excited by the demonstration of electron motion under previously hypothetical conditions , and are looking to other devices where the same effects can appear in less stringent experimental circumstances . |
| 15 | Few venture capitalists feel that the UK equity market has the effervescence to be able to generate the level of returns seen in the past , and so are looking to continental buyers to supply the exit opportunities for cleanly-structured , discrete , well-managed UK companies . |
| 16 | This now means that many institutions no longer have the business and technological skills in-house to take on large systems integration projects , and are looking to external providers to save them money on services and hardware . |
| 17 | I mean and usually it will you see most people are looking to past students when they mark . |
| 18 | Rafiq was studying his magazine with the kind of intense concentration often assumed by those who are listening to other people 's conversations . |
| 19 | So many record companies are only interested in kids — but there has been a change , more people are listening to classical type music at an earlier age . |
| 20 | they 're pandering to ghoulish voyeurism . |
| 21 | We 're looking to local authorities , business and commerce , the professions and the armed forces . ’ |
| 22 | Cos you 're going to real effort are you ? |
| 23 | If you 're going to effing bingo and Dave 's going to effing bingo , we can all go out up in my car , the girls can and have to squeeze up in the back of the car . |
| 24 | We 're going to bloody |
| 25 | ‘ You 're going to fine me , right ? |
| 26 | They 're going to liven things up around here . |
| 27 | Yes they 're going to Methodist church , then they 're gon na that |
| 28 | Well , the concern is to er , punish the children in a way , that they will realise they 're going to wrong way . |
| 29 | We 're going to happy until five at this rate . |
| 30 | You 're going to National Tyres on North Bridge . |