Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ministerial meeting planned for November in Copenhagen is expected to agree to phase out ozone- destroying chemicals by the end of 1995 . |
| 2 | The doctor concerned is now recovering and is expected to return to work in the near future . |
| 3 | FORMER North British Railway 0-6-0 Maude is expected to return to steam on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway later this summer . |
| 4 | Within a year or two the government ( of whichever party ) is expected to put to Parliament a radical reform which would do away with the charade of having to prove marriage breakdown . |
| 5 | The mortgage is fixed for three years at 10.3pc ( APR 10.9pc ) and is designed to appeal to home buyers seeking an affordable mortgage with inbuild stability of payments . |
| 6 | They argued that the basis of the national assessment system should be essentially formative , that is designed to contribute to learning and not simply summative , by which is meant the simple recording of acquired knowledge or skill . |
| 7 | This is a simple enough idea but when the same structure is made to apply to government , labour relations , the administration of justice , or mystical communication according to context , we find it confusing . |
| 8 | He thought , there is wanting to go to bed with someone , which is really just an erection ; and there is the kind of wanting which extends beyond the night into the day , the kind where you spend all day waiting , sometimes several days . |
| 9 | He is instructed to go to bed when he feels tired , to get up when he feels rested , and to eat meals when he estimates that it is breakfast , lunch , and dinner time . |
| 10 | So it 's oboes to clarinet , I have n't got the parts in here but I can if I n if someone is going to volunteer to clarinet , horns horns will stay at horns , but horn two presumably on trum what are the what are we going to give the trumpet to do ? |
| 11 | Even whilst a person is waiting to go to hospital there may be something you can do to help . |
| 12 | As in " The retreate " , a distal demonstrative construction is used to point to time past ; and this also has a qualifying element ( the phrase " which can not die " ) . |
| 13 | Despite the links with Mr Major , people are very uncertain of what 's going to happen to education funding in the future . |
| 14 | And now we 're more concerned with our little rules than with what 's going to happen to mummy in the future . |
| 15 | ‘ What 's going to happen to Summer Lodge , Miss Emily ? ’ |
| 16 | I do n't think Daniel 's going to go to sleep . |
| 17 | I do n't think he 's going to go to sleep while he 's in charge of thirty of you . |
| 18 | Modern scholarship is beginning to bring to attention traditions of piety , particularly that of women , in Europe from the twelfth century onwards , which are significant for the understanding of medieval English mysticism . |
| 19 | However this is beginning to apply to classroom video materials too as more and more people today have video machines at home . |
| 20 | As the coaches slip quietly through the tolls on the Severn Bridge , the Royal Military Academy itself is beginning to come to life . |
| 21 | ‘ Your mother 's bound to go to heaven , ’ said Ellen to Bernard on the afternoon of the morning his mother left . |
| 22 | What is bound to come to mind at this point is that there are pairs of things distinct from , but fundamentally like , a causal circumstance and its effect . |
| 23 | The German government is set to extend to industry the compulsory recovery/recycling regulations which apply to consumer packaging [ see EDs 63 , 56 ] . |
| 24 | CAP is a prokaryotic sequence-specific protein which is known to bind to DNA as a dimer and to induce a bend in DNA . |
| 25 | Grass , which used to be mown , is left to revert to meadow , and native trees planted between the nuclear reactors and the accelerators . |
| 26 | I find it indefensible that a bed manager — especially for neurosurgery , a specialty in which admissions are often urgent — is allowed to go to lunch without a bleep and that no one covers for him . |
| 27 | No one is allowed to go to sleep during this talk |
| 28 | In Chapters 5 and 6 the Chart is allowed to run to completion in order to determine the worst-case effects of lexical ambiguity . |
| 29 | Section 2(2) prevents the use of an exemption clause to escape liability for other loss or damage ( in general this is taken to refer to property damage and economic loss ) caused by negligence , unless the clause can satisfy the test of reasonableness . |
| 30 | Now Pol Pot is poised to return to power . |