Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 2 | I often find that parents are inhibiting to young people . ’ |
| 3 | These changes in facial colour are the most visible sign that you are reacting to each other . |
| 4 | The ‘ ancient pine forests ’ concept is linked to another myth about chemical sensitivity — that patients who are ‘ universal reactors ’ are reacting to all synthetic organic chemicals because they come from a common source . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Roadside spot checks on car pollution have begun to make sure drivers are sticking to new laws on exhaust fumes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr MacGregor said the Cabinet had agreed a clear spending totals in the summer ‘ and we are sticking to those . ’ |
| 9 | Mr MacGregor said the Cabinet had agreed a clear spending totals in the summer ‘ and we are sticking to those . ’ |
| 10 | I mean if , if they are in bed , I mean if they are there they are resting to some extent , even if they 're sort of awake but |
| 11 | ‘ You are submitting to male domination ? ’ he asked drily . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When adult cats follow their owners they are reverting to this half-grown kitten stage . |
| 14 | Ironically Leicester are heading for the top using Brian Clough 's style of passing football and it 's Forest who are reverting to more of the long ball game . |
| 15 | PLANNERS are contributing to chronic unemployment and decay in north Belfast , the Green Party has claimed . |
| 16 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
| 17 | I am dying to that old life , to that old self and I am following in this new life , and therefore , I am going through this , this symbolic act of being baptized , of dying to the old and being raised a new life in Jesus Christ . |
| 18 | Now , as a remarkable result of the ‘ Velvet Revolution ’ , the monks are returning to this great Premonstratensian monastery , founded in 1140 by Vladislav II . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 23 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 24 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 25 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 26 | I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden , Olaf Bär . |
| 27 | Such battles are damaging to all parties , so we welcomed CCW 's policy guidance on wind power and energy strategy in the hope that these will encourage a more landscape-sensitive approach in future . |
| 28 | They are not as effective or fast acting and are damaging to some surfaces particularly aluminium . |
| 29 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 30 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |