Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] to [art] " 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 | But as yet we 've not had an announcement on those , what those conditions are attaching to the use of the , of the grant . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now a sinister trend is emerging with the rearrest of some of those whose prison sentences are drawing to an end . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Be punctual , pay attention to what you wear , be aware of how others are reacting to the signals you are sending out . |
| 10 | As the factors associated with the presence of these hypersensitive sites are not limiting , recent advances in in vitro footprinting ( 61 ) should permit the dissection of which particular proteins are binding to the DH site sequences indicated in this work . |
| 11 | Most of them are sticking to a policy , adopted during the Falklands war , of not stocking war games until the war is over . |
| 12 | A month afterwards the teams will be sent out to discover whether retailers are sticking to the letter of the law . |
| 13 | My shoes are sticking to the floor . |
| 14 | I 'm used to taking like his lips are sticking to the window ! |
| 15 | Of course the Government are not satisfied with that , but at least it is clear that our efforts are having an impact and are bringing to an end the unsatisfactory increase in the number of homeless in bed-and-breakfast accommodation — which is falling in London , and is virtually stable across the rest of the country . |
| 16 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 17 | We are reverting to the existing practice . |
| 18 | Inevitably there are underlying social complexities , such as land tenure and population growth , which are contributing to the problem but there is also evidence , from locations within the drainage basin where conservation measures are being introduced , that terracing and contour farming can not only reduce the risk of erosion but also increase productivity . |
| 19 | Group members should not only feel that they are contributing to the life of the group , but that their participation is important . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The objective of the research is to gain a better insight into the labour market processes and labour market and social policy measures which are contributing to the ‘ marginalization and exclusion of older workers ’ and , as appropriate , to make recommendations which will enable social costs to be minimized and social benefits to be maximized . |
| 22 | Recognition that the members of organizations share group identities and have interests which may not coincide with others who are contributing to the same goals began with the Human Relations movement and its founder George Elton Mayo ( 1933 ) . |
| 23 | This , allied to poor training , poor supervision , and problems with recruitment ( especially of women ) , means that doctors are contributing to the criminal justice system less than optimally . |
| 24 | Increasingly records managers are contributing to the system specification . |
| 25 | all you are contributing to the political debate in this country at the present moment is a quarrel about the trade union block vote in the affairs of the Labour Party . |
| 26 | Could you tell me how people outside Kuwait from that country are contributing to the war effort . |
| 27 | We all , most of us , drive cars , you know , in that sense is there some sense of guilt around that in some way we are contributing to the war . |
| 28 | I am returning to the UK later this year ( I will be living in Hertfordshire ) , having spent six years abroad because of my husband 's employment . |
| 29 | The Director of the State Historical Library , Mikhail Afanas'yev , has confessed in an interview with the newspaper Kuranty that , ‘ Books from captured German holdings are perishing to a limited extent ’ . |
| 30 | SKIERS from the Middle East are praying to a new Mecca , the holy shrine of — Inverness . |