Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have pleased the powerful church of Canterbury , with which he seems to have wished to be on good terms , and been gratifyingly displeasing to that of London . |
| 2 | Such interests are slowly diffusing to other feminist psychologists , who have previously been distanced from them by the constraints of the mainstream discipline . |
| 3 | Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language . |
| 4 | I am slowly getting to grips with the laptop , but sadly , on 13th , lost not only the biggest filling in my teeth but also twenty pages of type this size on paper this size . |
| 5 | The Bradford City supporters are constantly writing to the rag complaining of too much coverage for Leeds ( It really does piss them off ) . |
| 6 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 7 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 8 | General practitioners have always had to manage and plan their businesses and are constantly adapting to changes in medical care . |
| 9 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
| 10 | Not all the effects of the privity doctrine are necessarily damaging to third party purchasers or creditors . |
| 11 | Er er I d I do n't think that we as a panel are necessarily going to ever and and and it may not be our role in fact to do so , to come to a judgement on it , but I would have thought as a matter of common sense , and common agreement , that there should be some er way in which the various parties would come together on the basic demographic statistics and would certainly accept that certain basic projections should be used i in looking forward . |
| 12 | There are obviously going to be problems associated with learning at the bedside . |
| 13 | Children who have to leave a lone parent , whether single from death or divorce , are obviously going to be more troubled and guilty about the possible loneliness and vulnerability of the one they leave behind than children who know there are others to carry that burden . |
| 14 | Now , what 's being said here in that particular sentence , is that there are obviously going to be , or possibly could be occasions when er , the Police Authority has er , an overspend , which is an immediate problem for instance , on pensions , and you 've heard the er , Fire Service Chief talking about his problems . |
| 15 | He says there are obviously going to be officers who query the reason for it , but they do n't have all the facts as they magistrates do . |
| 16 | ‘ A lot of people are obviously going to be disappointed , but others who are willing to take a chance right up until the match may be lucky to get their hands on a ticket . ’ |
| 17 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 18 | She 's got no practice ones for the two , the other two she 's got to do which are obviously going to be harder and she 's got no idea , not , well she 's got the guidelines but no real paper to sit and look at . |
| 19 | Meat production is obviously inefficient for all sorts of reasons and meat production from beef reared intensively is really wasteful by all sorts of criteria ; it is very expensive on fossil fuel , it is not very productive in terms of food energy and the animals are obviously having to be killed in the process . |
| 20 | Your bones , your eyes , your hair , your teeth are all going to be scrutinised by a panel of judges who are looking for your all-round potential , not just an impressive academic display . |
| 21 | If you do not have a co-operative neighbour , your friends are all going to be on holiday , and you have no relatives , there are businesses that ‘ home sit ’ ; your local phone directory should list them . |
| 22 | Officially you are all going to be victims of a surprise attack on the rescue party by the native inhabitants . |
| 23 | In doing so , I am only going to ‘ bracket off ’ the external influences on the local scene : I do not intend to argue that the discussion and analysis can go no further . |
| 24 | Such discussions not only take an inordinate amount of time ( a subtle form of disobedience ) , but they are subversive because they are so rewarding to the child . |
| 25 | That would give him a chance to reduce tax on lower incomes , which are so discouraging to people caught in the poverty trap . |
| 26 | Britain simply can not afford anomalies that are so damaging to one of its strategic manufacturing industries , to its balance of payments , not to mention tax revenue . |
| 27 | ‘ If you are on £3,000 a week with a mercedes and a lovely wife to put the tea on you are naturally going to be softer than the sportsmen who has nothing . |
| 28 | Spokesman Sylvia Rigby said : ‘ They seem to think we are only objecting to the level of the charge but we are against it all together . ’ |
| 29 | Voice input and output offer possibilities which are only beginning to be explored . |
| 30 | Many of the Act 's provisions , at the time of writing , are only beginning to be put into operation , but it is clear that once they have been fully implemented they will completely transform the educational system in Britain . |