Example sentences of "[was/were] heading for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the big fish were heading for deep water . |
| 2 | Those in financial trouble who knew of the money advice services but chose to ignore them , or who were unaware of their existence , and as a result let their indebtedness , once just manageable , become unmanageable , were heading for real trouble . |
| 3 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 4 | But Barons came back to lead 4-3 at the end of the second and Tigers looked like they were heading for another defeat . |
| 5 | This view represented the thoughts of an ever-growing majority whose intuitive feeling was that the Merseyside plant was heading for total and irreversible closure with the loss of ten thousand jobs . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I know why Billy was heading for that house , ’ Prentice went on . |
| 7 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 8 | In 1956 , of course , the Conservative party was heading for one of the few post-war political events unequivocally more damaging to it than the current poll-tax furore — the Suez crisis . |
| 9 | Though he had no hope of beating Stevie or Buck , he was heading for one of the best net scores of the day . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the Government was heading for more conflict after its confirmation of a 1.5 per cent public-sector pay rise led to protests from teachers and health workers . |