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

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1 It is not a region where costly Plans of Action are going to work .
2 What good 's coming to school , come to that ?
3 Well mummy 's going to bed too , and I 'm tired .
4 The cost difference between , say , 37 mpg and 49 mpg on a small/medium car is going to work out considerably less over a similar annual mileage than the potential savings between , say , 27 mpg and 38 mpg on a roomy two-litre executive saloon .
5 These days , however , with the average fisherman aged around 50 , the industry is turning to automation .
6 The wind 's increasing to gale force later , according to the shipping forecast , but I 'll be home safe and sound long before then . ’
7 A Corporal was indicating to Lovat where he thought the firing was coming from .
8 Yet we knew that if a programme was going to work it had to be ‘ user friendly ’ — we had had enough of diet and exercise books written by doctors and self-proclaimed experts .
9 The gap was closing to collision point in seconds .
10 He was last in England in 1972 , and used to say that his homeland was going to hell because of all the immigration .
11 The wind was increasing to gale force , and fast .
12 More cases of abuse are coming to light , and children have to be protected ; some children have to be rescued from the living hell they have to endure .
13 " Look here , this boy is going to Contention , " the ex-soldier explained , " and I 'm going to Bisbee to get married after twelve years of Army .
14 Meanwhile Hereford 's great escape from the relegation zone is going to plan — four games now without defeat .
15 Around her and — more terribly — within her , everything which had once promised exultation and delight was warping to extravagance and vice .
16 Now the European Community is hoping to phase out the green pound by 1992 , along with the M C A's .
17 A scan of the literature concerned with early Anglo-Saxon archaeology over the last 25 years has hardly reflected this change until very recently when there have been definite signs that dissatisfaction is leading to experimentation ; otherwise the Sutton Hoo harp has been played while the archaeological world burned .
18 Due to protestations that er is g for the meantime is go in the interim is going to man Glasgow er on Saturday afternoons .
19 Mr Yeltsin 's team was preparing to counter-attack today with a draft of a new constitution that would extend the presidential term from five years to six and give him a right of veto over parliamentary Bills and to pick a small team of state ministers .
20 We thought the difference was going to work out at around £60 .
21 ‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’
22 I take it that the hon. Gentleman is referring to reinsurance provided by the private sector through the recently privatised insurance services group , which was formerly in ECGD but is now in NCM Credit Insurance Ltd .
23 TOP is beginning to impact on how things are done throughout the Station and the emphasis is now on tangible results .
24 Frankly nobody knows if the stuff is going to work when tens of thousands or even a million nodes are involved and that 's exactly what the large accounts are really interested in .
25 Malos also said social workers needed to realise children were indirect victims of domestic violence : ‘ A lot of evidence is coming to light about the effects of domestic violence on children even if they are not the objects of the violence . ’
26 And evidence is coming to light that present generations may still be suffering the consequences .
27 Spiller is explaining to Pod how he proposes to move the grating over a drain .
28 He said : ‘ If the crypto-market in education is going to work , parents will need hard information , rather than relying on gossip in the local pub .
29 So this figure of fun is going to bed now .
30 I love what I 'm doing for Revlon but there are two things that I do think about , one is becoming an actress and the other is going to university to study art history .
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