Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 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 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 4 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Be punctual , pay attention to what you wear , be aware of how others are reacting to the signals you are sending out . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A month afterwards the teams will be sent out to discover whether retailers are sticking to the letter of the law . |
| 9 | My shoes are sticking to the floor . |
| 10 | I 'm used to taking like his lips are sticking to the window ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 13 | We are reverting to the existing practice . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Group members should not only feel that they are contributing to the life of the group , but that their participation is important . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Increasingly records managers are contributing to the system specification . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Could you tell me how people outside Kuwait from that country are contributing to the war effort . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In Imperial Gothic he should have been praying to the God-Emperor for help . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 27 | I am praying to the God of Laughter for unconditional mercy . |
| 28 | Allister Hutton , Mike Gratton and Veronique Marot are returning to the course which brought them victory in the eighties and they 'll be joined by Berlin Marathon winner Steve Brace , who is using the London as part of his preparation for Barcelona . |
| 29 | At the advanced age of 71 , Charles Bronson 's wizened features are returning to the big screen . |
| 30 | Can there be a more telling difference between the day when the CBI has confirmed the depth of the recession , unemployment is rising faster than in any other European country , we have a training and skills crisis , which the Government are making worse daily , and the fact that the Conservatives are returning to the agenda of the 1970s because they have no answers to the problems of the 1990s ? |