Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little wonder that , as American investors slowly discover the outside world , they are turning to mutual funds to handle its complexities . |
| 2 | The people who employ me , the Eastern Health and Social Services Board and the government , in the past have called us in the RVH , and now it all depends who they are talking to — if they are talking to the American delegation we are Marxist revolutionaries and if they are talking to other delegations they have branded us as Provos . |
| 3 | Like the vampire bats that we shall meet in a moment , they are playing to well-ritualized rules . |
| 4 | they 're pandering to ghoulish voyeurism . |
| 5 | Well , the concern is to er , punish the children in a way , that they will realise they 're going to wrong way . |
| 6 | They 're going to liven things up around here . |
| 7 | Yes they 're going to Methodist church , then they 're gon na that |
| 8 | of tricking people into believing sort of things that are n't true , which they 're saying that er they 're talking to deceased people like people said they talked to er Elvis Presley |
| 9 | So they 're working to different standards than that the water industry . |
| 10 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're doing to small-time corruption what the multinational corporations are doing to small-time business , ’ a cynical Sardinian friend had once remarked apropos of the latest initiative to dean up the police . |
| 12 | It 's inadequate er and it it creates the impression in my mind , the very possibility that the government is actually is in favour of fraud because they 're doing to little , far too little er and these regulations are far too little er to actually stop it down . |
| 13 | They 're retiring to various parts of the country , down here onto the Sussex coast and on the whole coast into the South West — to the pleasant places if they can afford to do it , and they 're leaving the inner city and leaving behind there a lot of young families , often single parent families and older people , and of course the kind of provision you have to make , the Social Services , the needs of these communities differ quite widely . |
| 14 | By July they were objecting to overseas service at all . |
| 15 | He said they were reacting to public pressure , and that the majority of people did not support Sunday opening . |
| 16 | ’ Nappy Wars ’ hit the headlines in January , when Peaudouce and Procter & Gamble announced they were moving to unbleached paper . |
| 17 | Many respondents simply answered ‘ yes ’ to this question , making it difficult to know whether they were referring to sole practitioners or to all practices . |
| 18 | There remained one other tactic in these years , which had an earlier antislavery history too , designed to provide a role for individual abolitionists in England and convince them that they were contributing to advancing freedom internationally ; it was the tactic of economic boycott of slave-grown raw materials or goods produced from them . |
| 19 | I understand that they were working to commissioned orders for a very wide range of goods and products , which were then sold in government-run shops in local towns . |
| 20 | H. P. We used to keep an eye on pubs where the sergeant and the constable used to do a month at a time , visiting the cinemas , theatres , and public houses , licensed places , and do some pubs , night after night — just checking things , and at five past ten , you 'd be right in checking they were keeping to closing time . |
| 21 | Because , what they were doing , they were going to individual pubs |