Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now a sinister trend is emerging with the rearrest of some of those whose prison sentences are drawing to an end . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But perhaps Governor Clinton 's most remarkable achievement will have been bringing to an end the Reagan-Bush years . |
| 8 | Most of them are sticking to a policy , adopted during the Falklands war , of not stocking war games until the war is over . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | SKIERS from the Middle East are praying to a new Mecca , the holy shrine of — Inverness . |
| 12 | bank statements for the last twelve months if you are applying to a bank other than your own ; |
| 13 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 14 | It 's er just what 's been happening to a lot of folk , sinus trouble . |
| 15 | That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've also been listening to a lot of Glenn Branca recently . |
| 17 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 18 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 19 | McDunn nods slowly , slightly , a distant look in his eyes like he 's not really nodding at what I 've just told him ; has n't been listening to a word I 've said , in fact . |
| 20 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 21 | ’ Oh , Bill , you have n't been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 22 | In the long run , persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy . |
| 23 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
| 24 | If you are writing to a woman whose marital status you are unaware of , then the title Ms can be used . |
| 25 | Women are looking to a new generation of gutsy , sexy heroines . |
| 26 | And Homeless and helpless … the war victims who are looking to a local charity . |
| 27 | Surely not , because we feel that we are listening to a true story of a real person , and if we grant this , then feelings connected with relieving distress are more likely to arise in us than purely poetic emotions . |
| 28 | If we do pay attention to his thought we feel we are listening to a public orator of unimpeachably orthodox Christian principles , a Poet Laureate in training — he did not in fact attain this honour until the reign of Queen Victoria in 1843 . |
| 29 | Note-taking aids concentration when you are listening to a lecture , watching a video or reading a book or article . |
| 30 | If we are listening to a story and somebody says So I ate it we may well know the meaning of it from somewhere earlier in the story . |