Example sentences of "[noun] were going [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rostov realised that signs and shrugs were going to be inadequate . |
| 2 | AFTER a period when it looked as if airworthy examples of the type were going to be extinct in the UK , Hawker 's Sea Fury is making a comeback . |
| 3 | With the introduction of such a large development , obviously extensive changes were going to be likely , not only in computer terms , but also in the administration of payroll and personnel records and in the organisational requirements for the new system . |
| 4 | With a brief nod and a smile that again dazzled and at the same time almost lulled her into thinking things were going to be normal between them from now on , he left . |
| 5 | There was no doubt about it — things were going to be tight if she decided to continue to live at Tullivers . |
| 6 | Plenty of other people were going to be dead before the night was out . |
| 7 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard that an investment analyst with the stockbrokers Bell Lawrie White had received information from the chairman of the waste management and construction group , Shanks&McEwan , that profits were going to be lower than City expectations . |
| 8 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |
| 9 | The dresses which Ben and I pored over by phone and at snatched meetings were going to be sensational . |
| 10 | The men were going to be surprised , of course , because she had said her last goodbye on Friday . |
| 11 | Scores were going to be high in the rainy , windy conditions . |
| 12 | So really if we did agree that any of those supplementary factors were going to be significant . |