Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [v-ing] to " in BNC.

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1 Apart from working closely with the Benevolent Fund , The Association is contributing to the work of The Council of British Service and Ex-Service Organisations .
2 The rhythm is responding to an external influence that has not been controlled in the experimental protocol .
3 So if that 's brief , grief is going to be the same cos it 's the same
4 But the value of old stock is beginning to be realise .
5 But I worry about whether that amount of housing stock is going to be replaced in the area , cos that is obviously very important .
6 The emaciated guitarist balances precariously on legs thinner than a pair of whittled Swan Vestas , which is fine , because a painfully thin member is essential if the glam card is going to be successfully played .
7 But football is going to be the winner .
8 You begin to enjoy the way people can say ‘ The National Health Service is safe in our hands ’ or ‘ Nobody deplores apartheid more than we do ’ or even ‘ We do not have a shoot-to-kill policy ’ and you know that another hospital is going to close and that there will be another stitch-up with Pretoria and that another shooting is going to be quietly forgotten .
9 In response to the news coverage of the disorder , she sent telegrams to both the BBC and the ITA asking them to ‘ please consider whether the massive television coverage of acts of vandalism and violence is contributing to the spread of the riots ’ .
10 get the figures , do I mean , we 're talking generalities , if you 're saying from what you know already the , the remote control gear is going to be sixteen double O four six eight O seven , and that is the best bearing arrangement that anybody could , anybody could produce , then , if that 's the answer , then for goodness sake get the figures , stick 'em in a memo so we can go and hit Peter , and make it quite clear to them that over the next year they 're going to lose half a million six double O ones , or whatever it is
11 The wind is gusting to about fifty knots . ’
12 Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines .
13 Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines .
14 ‘ The whole of the overseas side is going to be very important , particularly America .
15 Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product .
16 So it 's going to , the length of that side is going to be the
17 Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time .
18 and if it , if it were possible to forecast absolutely what the result is going to be , er , scientific research would be much easier .
19 Since most , if not all , of the organization 's revenue is going to be obtained from the sale of its products , it is clearly important that the range and quality of the product mix is frequently evaluated and amended .
20 On a brighter note , the survey indicates that the North-South divide is continuing to narrow .
21 Now then I was going to ask one simple question and that is , has anyone thought about keep sending postcards to people , er if the , erm reply is going to be delayed in any way , because at least then the person if there 's sufficiently good reference will be able to , phone up and say look you know , yes I 'm not happy , it seems to me that that would be a way forward on that , erm .
22 If high unemployment continues what good is training to most people in West Belfast ?
23 For the purists a bag without a zip is going to be the most efficient at keeping warmth in and will always be lighter than the same bag with a zip .
24 Build time is around 500 hours , Rotorway claim , and a flight training programme is going to be run by the company for constructors covering flight technique and maintenance .
25 Can items for the management team executive committee , I think I have three , erm one is to say that the the title of the total quality programme is going to be improvement through quality , in which case that 's the , that 's the phraseology which we should use from now on , is it like , it 'll actually abbreviate to I Q rather than T Q.
26 and er it must be borne in upon them that the alternative for us are not having money to keep up our roads programme is going to be very dangerous therefore I think there is no question that the recent test programme is the second priority for concern .
27 OPPOSITION is mounting to a controversial rule which has robbed a Middlesbrough student of his last chance to run in the English Schools Cross Country Championships .
28 As for old colleagues resenting his intrusion on their territory : ‘ Any external agent is going to be viewed with a certain amount of suspicion .
29 Mr Lenarduzzi endorses her view : ‘ If our concentration is going to be on testing , then that would not be welcome .
30 The tension is going to be different too , because the specific gravity of the steel used for the core is higher than the alloy you use for the wrap .
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