Example sentences of "who is [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shadow aid Minister Michael Meacher , who is flying to Somalia next week , said : ‘ This famine , which is worse than the Ethiopia one of 1985 , has been brewing for two or three years . |
| 2 | Let us suppose a less hurried traveller who is flying to Bali with the intention of staying who wants the life he expects in Bali not for some business or educational purpose but for its own sake , as his vision of the Good Life . |
| 3 | HEAD TO HEAD : A furious Princess Anne and defiant editor Eve Pollard who is refusing to back down |
| 4 | Our assemblies continue with the true story of Nicky Cruz , the young Puerto Rican boy who is sent to New York by his family and then runs away . |
| 5 | A particularly difficult situation arises in the case of a girl who is sent to hospital in need of a therapeutic abortion and refuses point blank to enter the hospital unless a guarantee is given that her parents shall not be told about it . |
| 6 | He played the part of Marcellus , a noble Roman who is converted to Christianity and chooses to die for his new religion . |
| 7 | In the susceptible man who is exposed to infection , the first signs develop after four or five days . |
| 8 | ‘ The man , who is wedded to Truth and worships Truth alone , proves unfaithful to her , if he applies his talents to anything else . |
| 9 | But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure . |
| 10 | Nippon DEC has named a new president to replace Edmund Reilly , president of the Japanese subsidiary since its formation in 1980 , who is to move to Hong Kong as the president and managing director of DEC Asia Region . |
| 11 | McCashin , who is relocating to Europe as part of last November 's corporate reorganisation that placed three vice-presidents in charge of European operations , says he is authorised to spend up to $10m without consulting the company 's finance committee . |
| 12 | He has signed to coach PSV next season , replacing former England manager Robson who is moving to Portugal 's Sporting Lisbon . |
| 13 | Middlesbrough complete their North Division One programme at home to Widnes without lock Steve Howe , who is moving to Nottingham and has yet to make a decision about his playing future . |
| 14 | Mr Hurd greeted and chatted to many visitors at the store , including pensioner Lillian Deakin , of Newcastle , who is moving to Cleveland . |
| 15 | Still a member at Hillside , although based at Altrincham , Nutter takes over as North Region secretary from Norman Fletcher , who is moving to PGA headquarters at the Belfry as Association Manager . |
| 16 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 17 | First job is to check that Tony , a boy who is brought to school by mini-cab is in . |
| 18 | Allie Byrne gives an enjoyable performance as the cool countess who is attracted to Viola now known as Caesario . |
| 19 | these proceedings are not available , however to a private individual who is restricted to summary proceedings under s.99 . |
| 20 | The momentum of the swing forces you to turn your back on the opponent , who is waiting to counter-attack at the first opportunity . |
| 21 | Colonel Jess , who is allied to Somalia 's most powerful warlord , General Muhammad Farrah Aideed , has vowed to re-take the city ; his men have probably begun to infiltrate its dusty streets . |
| 22 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 23 | The man , who is known to police as a leading paramilitary figure , said future IRA attacks on the Shankill would be matched on a scale similar to the Jamaica Street incident . |
| 24 | The committee held a banquet at the City 's Guildhall to discuss constitutional reform and to honour Roy ( now Lord ) Jenkins , who is committed to PR . |
| 25 | Delays before trial can therefore affect the result , for a defendant who is committed to hospital and recovers there would usually be released back into the community fairly swiftly . |
| 26 | In these , Sophocles presents the hero as the noble man who is doomed to error and misery despite his wisdom and all his efforts ( Oedipus Rex ) , but who , through his great suffering , eventually wins the magical power of benediction beyond his death ( Oedipus at Colonus ) . |
| 27 | He is the one who is reconciled to God . |
| 28 | The former Wham ! singer , who is signed to Sony until 2003 , has reportedly threatened never to sing again unless he is freed by Sony . |
| 29 | It is not , after all , her friend who is coming to lunch . |
| 30 | Exmouth Beach , Devon , England early on in the morning of August 18 , 1989 and guess who is coming to town ? |