Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consultancy is expected to be headed by Rover UK 's managing director Kevin Morley , who is thought unlikely to relinquish his current position within the company . |
| 2 | He has to be heading for Holland , Germany or France … ’ |
| 3 | Sheffield United looked to be heading for their third successive home win when substitute Simon Milton found space on the right . |
| 4 | looked to be heading for defeat against after a typically workmanlike innings by Steve Greensword ( 49 ) had held Wearmouth together . |
| 5 | Northerns utility player Theo Van Rensburg is reported to be heading to Johannesburg . |
| 6 | A seaborne US Marine task force was reported to be heading towards Kuwait having completed a " dress rehearsal " amphibious assault on the southern shore of the Saudi Arabian peninsula . |
| 7 | This has reinforced the problems of regional imbalance inherited from the years of deep recession and the more distant past and looks to be heading to a showdown on the green fields of southern England . |
| 8 | The Al Zulfiqar group is believed to be based in Damascus and is said to be headed by Mr Murtaza Bhutto , the Prime Minister 's brother . |
| 9 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 10 | Nicholson 's close friend Bruce Dern saw this as one of the developing problems with what seemed to be heading towards a husband and wife relationship ; with two people in the same business — as had been the case with Sandra and Mimi — the pressures on their life together were aggravated by the success of one member of the partnership , while the other was still struggling . |
| 11 | It seemed to be heading from the far side of his grandfather 's bed towards the door . |
| 12 | All Dublin seemed to be heading for Christchurch Place tonight . |
| 13 | Molassi seemed to be heading for a large structure . |
| 14 | The £14m annual budget allowed for establishing fundholding seemed to be heading for overspend just midway through 1991–2 . |
| 15 | In short , the nation seemed to be heading inexorably towards an impasse . |
| 16 | Collegians seemed to be heading for a shock win which would have ruined Western 's chances of a possible date with Lisnagarvey in tomorrow 's final when winger David Hutchison put them in front with a superb solo effort in the 20th minute . |
| 17 | Ireland seemed to be heading for a win in the bottom match when Mary McKenna and Aideen Rogers turned three up but Joanne Hockley and Sandy Lambert made one up . |
| 18 | If on the basis of the best information the system is seen to be heading for some sort of catastrophe then people not unnaturally lose confidence in it . |
| 19 | Echo currently has no iAPX-86 front-end for FlashPort , but is thought to be heading down that road . |
| 20 | Echo currently has no iAPX-86 front-end for FlashPort , but is thought to be heading down that road . |
| 21 | Now the police are looking for him again — he 's thought to be heading back to Milton Keynes after running away on a visit to court in London . |
| 22 | But now their contacts at her refugee camp say Azra and her mother have disappeared and are thought to be heading for Germany . |
| 23 | All we know is that , as Mother Walsh said , when the pure boy preaches the woman … ’ here he gave Emily a meaningful look — ‘ … something pretty nasty is going to be heading in our direction . |
| 24 | That is more than I can say about the Liberal Democrats , who seem to be headed for their own Westminster bunker en masse , or for Robin Cook , Clare Short , John Prescott or Chris Smith — all of whose views I would in normal times respect and follow with interest . |
| 25 | ‘ I want to do well for the club but I seem to be heading up a blind alley and maybe a move is the only solution . |
| 26 | And in the other Nat West quarter final , Northamptonshire seem to be heading for victory over Glamorgan . |
| 27 | Guy 's Hospital in London has been rumoured to be heading down the opting out path , although recently a group of consultants at the hospital expressed their opposition to the idea . |
| 28 | He seems to be heading this way . |
| 29 | IN ERA when free enterprise advocates deregulation , Australian limited-over cricket seems to be heading in the opposite bureaucratic direction . |
| 30 | They adapted well to the conditions in the end but at half-time the found the Emerging Wallabies leading by 21–4 and they looked to be heading for a big win . |