Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be heading [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Later in the morning we were able to confirm that she was heading for a port in Southern Ireland .
2 The weather was very rough and it was evident that we were heading into another part of the blizzard ; white cascades of billowy snow swirled around us , as the aircraft roared , bumped and bucketed towards our goal some 400 miles to the west .
3 NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament .
4 Having checked that they are heading for Prague , I give a lift to the two young men at the head of the queue .
5 French Socialists prepare to feast on crumbs of comfort The Socialists have been told so often that they are heading for total rout in tomorrow 's election that they will be relieved if they manage the 20 per cent predicted by the polls , writes Diana Geddes in Paris
6 As for the Socialists , they have been told so often that they are heading for a total rout that they will actually be relieved if they manage to get the 20 per cent which the last polls were predicting .
7 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 .
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 She had n't even noticed where they were , but now he was guiding her up some stone steps , and she realised by the background music that they were heading for Pepe 's .
10 ‘ Launch ’ is an apt term : it was never his intention to control or manipulate the Council , for it was a sovereign body under his presidency ; his duty was to see that it was heading in the right direction .
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