Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Secretary had told the Commons that 42,000 people left the colony this year , and 55,000 are expected to leave next year . |
| 2 | On the database side , Unify is currently waiting to see how object technology develops before it makes a move , but is already hard at work on object extensions to its tools , the first of which are expected to emerge next year . |
| 3 | Because of this , the only shock that can disturb current prices from the value they are expected to take next period is a relative demand shock . |
| 4 | At St Bartholomew 's Hospital , 75 beds have closed ; Parkside Health Authority has closed a 20-bed ward it had just re-opened to try to tackle waiting lists ; and proposals to close some beds at the London Hospital are expected to go next week to Tower Hamlets Health Authority , which faces a £1.3m overspend . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Chadwick and co are expected to follow last summer 's ‘ Babe Rainbow ’ LP with a single before the end of the year . |
| 6 | AT&T Co said yesterday that it plans to call five long-term debt issues totalling $1,750m for early redemption and expects to use cash reserves and new debt to fund the exercise — with interest rates so low in the US , new debt is cheaper than most old debt ; one-time costs associated with the redemptions are expected to reduce first quarter 1993 earnings by about $0.04 per share but interest savings in subsequent quarters will reduce the full-year impact to less than $0.02 per share . |
| 7 | He and Dr Kohl are expected to meet next week following the swearing in of a new East German government on Monday . |
| 8 | The new machines are expected to appear first through Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , one of Pyramid 's OEM partners , thought to be readying a 24-way version of its Pyramid re-badged LSX range for a mid-June introduction . |
| 9 | In order to keep pace with growing demand for services , by the end of the 60's hardware has been upgraded to include first one and then a second ICL 1900 series processor . |
| 10 | Number the items and try placing an " urgency rating " against each item : x- for those books already overdue at the library ; for that essay to be presented by next Monday ; for the tutorial paper you 're committed to give next Tuesday ; for less urgent items , like the laundry or shopping you must try to have done by the weekend . |
| 11 | Take your hands off your stupid ears and think what we 're going to do next . |
| 12 | ‘ We have to find out what they 're going to do next . |
| 13 | She says everyone 's done so well to raise a quarter of a million pounds — we 're just wondering what we 're going to do next ! |
| 14 | The trouble is you can make , there 's a lot of people , it 's very easy when you 're concentrating on what you 're going to do next , you forget the colour you 're playing . |
| 15 | But in any case , you wonder what they 're going to do next . |
| 16 | ‘ And perhaps it 's also better that we do n't know what you 're going to say next , ’ Talbot said . |
| 17 | I can always tell exactly what you 're going to say next . ’ |
| 18 | We when do we know when what what we 're going to get next year from D O E. |
| 19 | But this is the interest rate dip we 're in here , I mean we 've seen , we 've seen I reckon we 're somewhere around here , we could be either side of that , but I think what we 're going to find next year is that the Chancellor , because he 's had to keep interest rates low and he 's stimulating the economy , er you 're going to find that eventually he 's going to have to push interest rates up to control inflation . |
| 20 | It 's a erm it was let's see what we can do to these nasty Labour controlled authorities and see how we can break down their erm their control of education and immediately they introduce it then suddenly the things start happening and they have second thoughts about it , and I 'm sure as night follows day that they 're going to have second thoughts about this when it actually occurs . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're going to start next week . |
| 22 | Unless you 're beginning to have second thoughts . ’ |
| 23 | Alternatively , customers are requested to pay first , with the offer of a refund if the program proves unsuitable . |
| 24 | Ashley stopped whatever he had been going to say next with a humourless laugh . |
| 25 | People now ask me what I am going to do next . |
| 26 | Participants in conversation draw attention to , or prepare the ground for , the kind of turn they are going to take next . |
| 27 | People who know their animals well have a strong sense of what they are going to do next from what is referred to as the animals ' ‘ body language ’ . |
| 28 | No longer can you sit firmly in your own world , feet outstretched and uncurling , because three Prestonians are going to sit next to you . |
| 29 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 30 | Oh I know what , erm the the competitions are going to start next week . |