Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As that support may be coming to an end , there may be a large gap . |
| 2 | How curious that someone with such a short , neatly waved cap of brown hair should be talking to someone with such a fuzz of ginger hair — and talking so seriously , with no sense of disparity ! |
| 3 | Spicer points out that the sector has thrived in a bull market but the advertising boom may be coming to an end . |
| 4 | This isolation may be damaging to the manager . |
| 5 | Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds . |
| 6 | The first reaction to ‘ if you want money , get lost ’ was that Steen must be referring to potential blackmailers , but then Charles realized how unlikely that was . |
| 7 | Fourth September — news at Brigade H.Q that the Brigade would be returning to England on the 6th September to reorganise and prepare to be sent to the Far East and continue the war against the Japanese . |
| 8 | So I asked him if the task force would be going to the Gulf ; how many people were involved ; and what experience they had . |
| 9 | tell them that , at the end of next month , for a week , to mark Australia Day , this programme will be coming to you live from Sydney . |
| 10 | ‘ The members of this delegation will be speaking to a number of prisoners . |
| 11 | Following points of clarification on all these issues , the IBOA will be reverting to our members in Willowbrook . |
| 12 | Children who behave well at school but badly at home may be responding to family tensions , or they may find it easier to accept discipline in the more formal atmosphere of a school . |
| 13 | Since the distinction between the two subclasses is immediately obvious , the adult 's question must be referring to the relative numbers of roses and daffodils . |
| 14 | THE picture of wizened old Frenchmen puffing contentedly on their Gauloises over a glass of pastis could be coming to an end — by law . |
| 15 | He had just nodded his head , and then returned to the talk about the social evening , and how difficult it was to be safe with prawns , and he had wanted to know if Dan and his lady would be coming to the Service 's New Year 's Eve party . |
| 16 | However , he added , like all ministers , the Chancellor would be moving to a more environment-friendly machine in the fullness of time . |
| 17 | The Regional Council will be responding to the consultation paper and other interested parties are asked to submit their views in writing by 29 January 1993 to : |
| 18 | In return for us putting that money into the scheme er straight away er as Paul said the council will be agreeing to , to make us priority for handling corporation funding and if that 's not successful er to use your reasonable endeavours to try and find the remainder of the scheme yourselves . |
| 19 | The draft of the city wide local plan will be going to the city council in December , and prove of the consultation , but the figures some of you 've seen in our evidence have been a agreed by the the local plan steering group , who sit in council members er across party , committee which has agreed the basic numbers , so the draft allocations which are in our submission , and which we have seen in the schedules yesterday , are accepted as a basis for consultation by the city council but are clearly subject to review . |
| 20 | Inevitably members of the Bar will be looking to a large extent to those areas of expenditure detailed on pages 7 and 8 of the accounts which show substantial increases over the previous year . |
| 21 | Although attention to processes at this level could be proceeding to what some geographers would clearly categorize as soil science , the movement did catalyse the development of a more three-dimensional view of the soil . |
| 22 | While the students compete for honours within their class , the teacher may be looking to the class as a whole , competing with other teachers ' classes , to bring him esteem and promotion . |
| 23 | Worry about finding his half of the mortgage must be getting to her , she realised as she left the kitchen , knowing that just thinking of her brother was not going to conjure him home to pay his dues . |
| 24 | If dietary deficiency seems to be a factor , the counsellor should be able to help the counsellee ascertain which factors in the diet might be contributing to poor health , perhaps in consultation with the books mentioned above , or with a nutritionist or dietitian . |
| 25 | Taken together with other recent surveys , those figures suggested confidence might be returning to employers , he said . |
| 26 | WARNING : THIS ARTICLE COULD BE DAMAGING TO YOUR STOMACH IF QUEASY , DO NOT READ ( DO N'T EVEN LOOK ) |
| 27 | BRIAN CLOUGH is to be given the Freedom of Nottingham — after rumours in the city that his reign at Forest could be coming to an end . |
| 28 | So sometimes I wallop it in , sometime the the other one would stick his finger through the hole , and the riveter would be dying to be hitting it back he thought it was a drift you know . |
| 29 | Maeve would be seeing to the barns , ensuring stock was slaughtered , the meat dried , salted and hung high in the kitchen to smoke , preserving it for the long winter months . |
| 30 | A reminder will be going to all teachers who may have lapsed Society members in their classes . |