Example sentences of "[vb infin] forward [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , by staying alive until that date , you can look forward to a substantial return on your investment — while remaining safe in the knowledge that , in the event of your death during that period , or subsequently , your family will be protected against any financial problems that might lie ahead . |
| 2 | NOW that Falkirk Football Club has confirmed the surprising choice of Campbell Christie , General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress , as its new chairman , we can presumably look forward to a radical change of tactics on the field . |
| 3 | In 1914 he was still only fifty-five and could look forward to a major job in the next Unionist government . |
| 4 | I 'll look forward to a working party to be set up to address this situation . |
| 5 | Viking makes a rare outing into the world of science fiction , though William Gibson is a writer with a strong mainstream following : Virtual Light ( £14.99 ) is set in a none-too-distant future where , according to Gibson , we can look forward to a new form of virtual reality , the virtual light of the title , and a religion based on Cable TV — shades of Philip K Dick here . |
| 6 | Seeing the merit of paying in the highest monthly premium ( £35 ) , they can each look forward to a tax-free payment at the age of 65 — £37,500 for Alec and £37,800 for his wife — which will help bring the retirement home of their dreams well within their reach . |
| 7 | Ludwig Erhard , who succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor in October 1963 , was an experienced minister , the man held responsible for German economic success since 1949 , deeply committed to the US alliance and who , at 66 , could look forward to a long career as Chancellor — given the record of his predecessor . |
| 8 | Now Susan can look forward to a cosy flat this winter … but she still plans to give the British Gas man a very chilly reception . |
| 9 | As the EC opens membership negotiations with the members of EFTA , and as we develop closer relations with the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe , we can look forward to a European Community which , by the year 2,000 , is truly becoming ‘ our Common European Home ’ . |
| 10 | And their skipper Stuart Davies said : ‘ This win will show the Welsh players that with the right preparation and training , Wales can look forward to a good result against the Australians . ’ |
| 11 | But thanks to a team of pioneering transplant surgeons in America , Laura can look forward to a happy life . |
| 12 | As it is now all the more important that Europe should prove that it can walk before it tries to run , may we look forward to a rigid application by our European partners of all those directives that they have so far chosen to ignore ? |
| 13 | Whichever happened , it was clear that the citizens of Somerset could look forward to a radioactive legacy on their coastline for more than many of their lifetimes . |
| 14 | Outward Bound students can look forward to a high standard of accommodation after a day on the hill |
| 15 | So the 700 Goldman Sachs employees can look forward to an extensive selection of cold starters , salads and both pre-packed and made to order sandwiches , gateaux , cakes , yoghurts and fruit as well as a wide range of non-alcoholic beverages , in attractive surroundings . |
| 16 | If MPs do not look forward to an annual visit to Babel by the Sea , the Party 's rank and file spend twelve months ticking off the days in happy anticipation . |
| 17 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 18 | We then went a stage further and to share the technology established joint teams for each of these major areas , so that er the specification while it was under Dasa 's leadership , it was actually done by a joint team which involved expertise from British Aerospace and the other three and er therefore at that time the whole Eurofighter consortium was confident that they were making the best use of the available expertise across the four partner companies , each bringing to the table , their own so that they could go forward on a confident basis . |
| 19 | After the Labour Party conference Dame Judith Hart had said that ‘ we can now go forward as a united party ’ . |
| 20 | If the matter is not resolved by the small claims procedure it may go forward to a full hearing before a County Court judge in the normal way . |
| 21 | Erm I I look forward to hearing Mr 's views on on this particular matter given that he was the or or the department was was responsible for for in a sense prolonging the discussion to consider the breakdown of locations and as to whether he feels that there is sufficient technical information available on all of the sectors should a recommendation come forward for a particular sector from from the panel . |
| 22 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 23 | Does your abdomen bulge forward in a little pot shape ? |