Example sentences of "[is] [verb] to [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The Army is expected to officially take over the base later this year .
2 As there is little doubt that digital is destined to eventually take over from analogue systems , HDMAC would seem to have little to recommend it to anyone but the European TV companies who are already financially committed to it .
3 Cos that is going to eventually pop up , you just , you 've got , I think he 's a contact wrong .
4 Do n't worry , no one is going to ever check up on you , you are only doing it for yourself .
5 If there 's a lot of water in the dam , right up there , just pull the plug out here it 's going to really shoot out .
6 I think she 's going to always fall over all the time really !
7 The former Charlton youngster has had a harrowing time at Wednesday since his £250,000 move in January last year — but is aiming to finally win over the Hillsborough boo-boys .
8 If he is asked to only trot round in large circles , he will have plenty of time to think about life being fun , whereas if he is ‘ worked ’ he will have to concentrate his mind on the job in hand .
9 It is a funny world in which a child , however mature they may seem , is allowed to just go out without leaving an address or phone number and simply does not come home .
10 Like an unearthly cross between Paul McCartney , Gerry Sadowitz and someone you beat up every day at school , Louis is Kinky Machine 's trump card , illegally bad leather jacket cast aside to reveal bare chest within seconds , silly guitar played above the head on all-too-many occasions , halfway-house haircut shaken at the crowd as if he 's trying to violently throw off a wig .
11 ‘ Sometimes , ’ says Freddie , ‘ one 's tempted to just plunge in and put everything to rights . ’
12 ( The reader is advised to temporarily cover up the remaining nodes . )
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