Example sentences of "[was/were] heading for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LABOUR 'S health spokesman , Mr Robin Cook , claimed during health questions that eye tests were dropping so steeply since charges were imposed earlier this year that they were heading for a fall of three million , but health minister Mrs Virginia Bottomley said the Government had not yet reviewed the effect of charges . |
| 2 | Wednesday , beaten twice by Dave Bassett 's outfit last season , were heading for a hat-trick of disasters until Hirst struck six minutes from time . |
| 3 | Crossing the room as though he were heading for the wardrobe , Angel Four suddenly changed direction , took two swift paces to his right , seized the curtains with both hands and jerked them open . |
| 4 | Their destination could only be guessed at , but by their line of march through upper Clydesdale it looked as though they were heading for the West March , possibly even Galloway . |
| 5 | The bulldozers had turned round now and were heading for the bridge . |
| 6 | They were heading for the bullseye to begin with , but then the target started to accelerate it speeded up . |
| 7 | Ahead and around him as he drifted forward , the melodic light was increasing gradually , growing stronger and brighter as though he were heading for the source . |
| 8 | At the height of the romance , the pair were inseparable and it was obvious to family and friends that they were heading for the altar . |
| 9 | Some fifteen minutes after Thomas departed , accompanied by his small daughter , two elderly ladies were heading for the bakery to buy some salt . |
| 10 | Later in the morning we were able to confirm that she was heading for a port in Southern Ireland . |
| 11 | Managing director Alan Smith said the region was heading for a water shortage in the next 25 years . |
| 12 | She breezed on by , presumably expecting him to follow ; she was heading for a side-entrance to the house that was reached through an overgrown kitchen garden . |
| 13 | Musically , he was heading for a standard , slightly throw-away show , when the first special guest appeared . |
| 14 | The dark blue £415,000 car was stopped between Preston and Lancaster on Sunday as Mr Vilaseca was heading for a holiday in Scotland . |
| 15 | Cobalt was heading for a renewal of the morning 's hangover , Oliver would expect to head for Antibes with her later . |
| 16 | Hodge equalised Gannon 's second-minute goal in the eighth minute , and it looked as though the game was heading for a draw . |
| 17 | He was heading for a career in medicine when , at the age of 18 , he saw his first motor race . |
| 18 | What you were doing was heading for the exit ! ’ |
| 19 | He was heading for the villa but not on the drive itself . |
| 20 | Then , on sharp , swift strides he was heading for the door , while Shiona continued to stand where she was , rock still , as though rooted to the floor . |
| 21 | She was heading for the supermercado when a flaxen-haired man with a teak-dark tan waved vigorously from beyond a group of onlookers on the opposite side of the square . |
| 22 | But I 'd closed the car door by then and was heading for the deli . |
| 23 | In Hobson 's bleak vision , European civilization , for all its nineteenth-century promise , was heading for the fate of the Roman Empire . |
| 24 | Grabbing a robe and a towel , she was heading for the shower when someone tapped quietly at the cabin door . |
| 25 | He smacked the ball and it was heading for the roof of the net but it hit a west ham player on the head and almost knocked his head off ! |
| 26 | ONCE a car to aspire to , Buick lost its lustre and was heading for the scrapheap . |
| 27 | Everyone was heading for the bedroom from which had come the screams . |
| 28 | The choice of the latter led Leavis , to whom I sent the paper later , to expostulate , but at that time I thought that Read was heading for an eminence which , at least as a creative writer , he never attained . |