Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] to be [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you 're going to be our new guardian angel . ’ |
| 2 | I am a librarian , and it seems books are going to be my only companions . |
| 3 | The quality I 'm referring to was something common enough here in Latin America , but very rare in the land of booze and animal fats , where the women seem to have taken to heart mad Hamlet 's advice to let their honesty admit no discourse to their beauty . |
| 4 | Let's all have a drink together , I hope all my girlfriends will meet steady boyfriends , but as Helen organized this party and is going to be my chief bridesmaid , I 'd like to wish happiness to Helen . |
| 5 | ‘ Pamela is going to be your new Mummy , ’ he told them . |
| 6 | The thing to do , Bob , is to face up to the fact right from the beginning that it 's going to be something Victorian or Edwardian , and that it 's going to be in some slightly less fashionable postal district . ’ |
| 7 | And that helped , because then you have no preconceived ideas , so if you do come up with something , it 's going to be something unusual . ’ |
| 8 | it 's going to be something special happening at lunchtime is it ? |
| 9 | Anyway we 're going to go for trap two , Smoky Amber here , now she 's a bitch that is really , I think 's going to be something special over a longer trip , erm you know a longer distance , but she is only a March eighty nine so she 's not two yet . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's going to be my little errand-girl . ’ |
| 11 | The vibrant ‘ Zoo Station ’ kicked everything off and right from the word go it was going to be something special . |
| 12 | JAMES Gilbey , the man linked with the Princess of Wales , last night laughed off suggestions he was going to be her public escort . |
| 13 | James Gilbey , whose intimate phone call to Diana was taped , yesterday laughed off suggestions that he was going to be her public escort . |
| 14 | Then I discovered a section on sailing vessels and decided that travelling the world by schooner was going to be my main occupation post-release . |
| 15 | It was happening in the summer and autumn of that year , and having now established who he was , people in the movie business were asking if this was going to be his big break , while out there in the communes and on the streets , the rebels were electing him and Hopper , and , to a lesser degree , Fonda , their champions . |
| 16 | Techno Tracies and crop-headed sheep on drugs were tainting the atmosphere at raves , and there was beginning to be something familiar in the frenzy of old favourites such as Kaos and Ark . |
| 17 | I had noticed it too , and I was all the more pleased with the prospect of doing something in what was coming to be my other sphere of interest , namely , literature and especially poetry . |