Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Garrett said others who have taken only the three-hour assessment are responding to pursuits despite force guidelines prohibiting them . |
| 2 | WIMBLEDON 'S Crazy Gang are returning to Plough Lane , the happy hunting ground they had to leave for safety reasons two years ago . |
| 3 | It is not a region where costly Plans of Action are going to work . |
| 4 | What good 's coming to school , come to that ? |
| 5 | Well mummy 's going to bed too , and I 'm tired . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 8 | I must advise the Minister that that is not what the construction industry is saying to others about the problems that it is facing . |
| 9 | These days , however , with the average fisherman aged around 50 , the industry is turning to automation . |
| 10 | Labour is offering to people who are presently enjoying the benefits of compulsory competitive tendering a promise to scrap it . |
| 11 | The wind 's increasing to gale force later , according to the shipping forecast , but I 'll be home safe and sound long before then . ’ |
| 12 | DEL Boy Trotter 's favourite barman is moving to Brookside . |
| 13 | Offiah is returning to England for a shoulder reconstruction operation . |
| 14 | Offiah is returning to England for a reconstruction operation . |
| 15 | The president was admitting to voters that ‘ everything I told you in the campaign was not true , ’ said Republican Senator Phil Gramm . |
| 16 | What was interesting was that , while the hero of the hour was still in a back room , under wraps for the time being like his likeness in oils , the conversation was taking place only inches away from the player whose last-minute goal in ‘ 66 guaranteed that the Jules Rimet trophy was coming to England . |
| 17 | A Corporal was indicating to Lovat where he thought the firing was coming from . |
| 18 | In return , he 'd allegedly offered to keep quiet about illegal payments the club was making to players . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Cobalt was speaking to Maurin as they came through the garden together . |
| 21 | The critic was reacting to Johnson 's capacity for inventive response . |
| 22 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 23 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 24 | The gap was closing to collision point in seconds . |
| 25 | He was last in England in 1972 , and used to say that his homeland was going to hell because of all the immigration . |
| 26 | We could not claim all the credit for this as our administration was coming to grips with the situation ashore . |
| 27 | The wind was increasing to gale force , and fast . |
| 28 | It then transpired that a date , April 15 , 1991 , had been accepted by both sides , but that the MPLA delegation was objecting to UNITA 's insistence on adding the condition that April 15 , 1992 , be accepted as a firm date for multiparty general elections . |
| 29 | However , a report of July 29 said that the Armenian delegation was returning to Rome . |
| 30 | 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 . |