Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [adv] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , cash-bloated film and television tycoons formed one important group of new collectors of contemporary art in the Eighties , and since the entertainment business is often the last industry to feel the pinch of a national economic recession , artists may also be retreating to the comfort of their remaining sure sources of income . |
| 2 | There is some evidence ( ILEA , Oxfordshire ) that LEAs may also be responding to the view that the arts coordination is more consistently served in advisory services by a single member of staff with cross-arts responsibilities than through the informal cooperation of individual arts subject advisers . |
| 3 | Pesticides may also be contributing to the fall of the hare . |
| 4 | Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology . |
| 5 | The statute can not be referring to the interests of all those individuals because they may differ and the interests of the majority are not necessarily the same as the interests of the State . |
| 6 | But now this third bright period may also be coming to an end . |
| 7 | It said that the Emissary would soon be travelling to SenFed Central , and that en route he wished to communicate directly with me , face to face , on a matter of immense delicacy . |
| 8 | Joan Knight will also be returning to the theatre which she has run for the last 25 years , Andrew McKinnon having invited her to direct Tally 's Blood . |
| 9 | And tomorrow the O'Donovan Rossa club sharpshooter will again be hoping to ‘ make his point ’ when his side face Eire Og ( Carlow ) in the final replay at the Gaelic Grounds , Limerick . |
| 10 | The discussions are close to a conclusion and I understand that my hon. Friend will shortly be writing to the industry to clear up some of the remaining points , which will isolate the relatively few issues to be settled . |
| 11 | Australian Mick Lee will not be returning to Farnham and James Barrow has moved on to division one club Cheam . |
| 12 | At the time it was widely believed that Sugar would not be returning to operational flying , as the following press release issued at the time seemed to indicate : |
| 13 | Despite the go-ahead , Environment Secretary Michael Howard announced yesterday that 2,000 civil servants will not be moving to the Canary Wharf office block in the near future . |
| 14 | But as family size may not be tending to zero , it is evident that income and material benefits are not the only considerations in determining family size . |
| 15 | whether life might really be coming to an end , as ecologists say ; |
| 16 | " Madam Lundy will never be returning to Dublin . |
| 17 | Our love affair with the box may finally be coming to consummation . |
| 18 | From the mists of antiquity the spirit of the most ancient of Irish healers , Dian Cecht must surely be calling to you to ponder on what you have done . |
| 19 | The world 's biggest civil engineering project could soon be coming to Darlington , a cabinet minister said this week . |
| 20 | Flushed with success after his appearance on the Indie panel at the recent CMJ seminar in New York , new skid on the block SHITMAN could soon be coming to England as a new face on yoof TV . |
| 21 | But not even the news that the most promising horse in the yard had been sold to Ibn Fayoud , nor the rumour that the rest of the young Arab 's horses would also be coming to the yard , could distract Kelly from thoughts of her father 's letter . |
| 22 | Margaret Stanhope saw by the watch that never left his wrist that their unromantic interlude would soon be drawing to a close . |
| 23 | Lifelong Tottenham fan Ted May , 54 , from Meldreth , Cambs , said he and many others would not be going to any more home games . |
| 24 | The country will certainly be looking to the Opposition to clarify their position on taxation and spending . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
| 26 | We have already mentioned that strikes need not be damaging to individual firms ; and while it is true that the economy as a whole can be damaged by certain groups of workers ( eg. power workers , miners and transport workers ) , relatively few groups actually have this kind of muscle . |