to be forward to purchasing vs to be forwarded to purchasing

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• I don't wish to be forward but we'd like to exchange cars with you.
• I don't mean to be forward, but a girl could wait here forever.
• I don't mean to be forward, but I happen to know a thing or two about complex algorithms.
• To sum up, given the lags in the transmission of its effects, monetary policy has to be forward-looking.
• Financial markets are supposed to be forward-looking, and many economists believe that they allocate resources in a way that reflects all available information.
• I don't want to be forward, but I need someone for the Feldman Bar Mitzvah next weekend.
• Price stability must be maintained over the medium term, which reflects the need for monetary policy to be forward-looking.
• The other matter I consider to be crucial to this regulation, if it is to be forward-looking, is the continued use of methyl bromide.
• You know the first time I saw you, I decided to be forward.
• Look, I don't want to be forward... but it's I do have to get up early.
• Monetary policy needs to be forward-looking since there are significant lags Forward-looking monetary policy in the transmission mechanism (see next section).
• Turning to the current situation, I should like to repeat that the monetary policy strategy of the Eurosystem, which has been made very clear to Parliament, is based on two pillars, both designed to be forward-looking over the medium-term.
• Shelly, I hate to be forward, but can I buy you a cup of coffee?
• These are just a few suggestions, Mr President, but they would help us to be forward-looking in a practical way, which is precisely what our citizens want us to be.
• I don't want to be forward, but can I assume this is some kind of an apology?
• I don't mean to be forward... but have you have been experiencing any bladder problems yet, Sheriff?
• Now, I don't mean to be forward, Lu, but you should know by now that a fuIl-figured girl like yourself
• Dottie, I don't want to be forward, but do you like Samurai movies? I don't know.
• The Commission gives absolute priority to purchasing or long-term rentals and has concluded short-term contracts in exceptional cases only.
• 52 % of consumers mention the difficulties they encountered in exchanging goods or having repairs done as the main barrier to purchasing goods across borders.

Some examples from the web:

• To this effect a yearly report is to be forwarded to the European Institutions.
• Provision should also be made for these reports to be forwarded to the Commission.
• A proposal is expected to be forwarded to Parliament by mid April 2001.
• That information is to be forwarded to the European Food Safety Authority for evaluation in due course.
• When you are not here, my office number is to be forwarded to your cell, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• It is important for these studies to be forwarded to the Commission and the European Parliament committees responsible to assist in the introduction of legislative modifications.
• The proposal for a regulation lists the instruments in respect of which data will have to be forwarded to the European Commission.
• A copy of that list has to be forwarded to the secretariat of the meeting concerned.
• Fourthly, I would remind you that the report is to be forwarded to all the members of the WTO in a few weeks' time.
• A table showing the equivalence of old and new numbers is then to be forwarded to the Commission.
• The deadline for remarks and comments to be forwarded to the Commission by interested parties expired on 11 July.
• The Commission sent to the GOC an Appendix to be forwarded to the SOCBs, public development banks and privately owned financial institutions that lent money to the companies sampled during the investigation period.
• The Greek authorities indicated that they asked OA to provide confirmation of this situation, which was to be forwarded to the Commission.
• Similarly, employment guidelines are to be forwarded to the European Council together with an Autumn 2000 employment package.
• Article 10(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 provides for information about matters liable to result in criminal proceedings to be forwarded to the judicial authorities of the Member State concerned.
• We must of course do this, which is why we have arranged for the material received from Austria to be forwarded to the scientific committees so that they can make an independent assessment of it.
• The Galician Autonomous Government's Ministry of the Environment has announced that this project is merely awaiting a technical environmental report which is apparently to be forwarded to it from some European authority, and refuses to provide more details on the subject.
• The Director shall inform the committee of cases requiring information to be forwarded to the judicial authorities of a Member State.
• The text is shortly to be forwarded to the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament.
• I can confirm that it is Commissioner Bolkestein's firm intention to present a proposal to the Commission by the middle of the year, to be forwarded to Parliament and the Council.