Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] to be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 're going to be of any use to me at all , the work has to start now . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose , McAllister , if you 're going to be of any real use to me — ’ He was interrupted by Rose bursting in , a Greek chorus of depressed-looking women following her . |
| 3 | Well we 'll see if there , if there well the jury can have a look at them if they want , certainly if er if neither side think they 're going to be of any assistance then there 's not much point in producing them . |
| 4 | If you know that employers are using immigrants as cheap labour , and that they 're being used to undercut your rates of pay , you 're going to be against that . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if you 're going to be like that … ’ |
| 6 | ROS : I 'm not going to play if you 're going to be like that . |
| 7 | ‘ If you 're going to be like that , I 'm going home , ’ said Sam , but Camille had recovered her spirits . |
| 8 | So said if you 're going to be like that be like that . |
| 9 | I mean , seven pounds to have , I mean they 're not gon na probably have an answer machine , but you know for things if things are going to be like that |
| 10 | We need an injection off money from somewhere to spend on 2/3 quality players plus strengthening the squad with a couple of decent reserves or the next few seassons are going to be like this until the youth side is mature enough to carry the burden . |
| 11 | We need an injection off money from somewhere to spend on 2/3 quality players plus strengthening the squad with a couple of decent reserves or the next few seassons are going to be like this until the youth side is mature enough to carry the burden . |
| 12 | Ships did not often come down this coast , and I said to myself , ‘ I 'm going to be on this island for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | The Western-financed dams received all the attention ; the numerous jobs that needed to be done if the dams were going to be of any use had scant priority . |
| 14 | Is this actually a book that er is going to be of any assistance to me ? |
| 15 | erm that 's why er you know really i it is essential that certainly who ever is going to be in that position knows what . |
| 16 | ‘ The hardest thing for me is knowing I had so many good years , so many great moments , because it means you always think it is going to be like that . |
| 17 | One of my more cynical film critic friends uses me as his personal ‘ shriekometer ’ to gauge how freaked out Joe Public is going to be by some of the grizzlier horror movies we have to sit through . |
| 18 | If he 's going to make it , it 's going to be with this picture . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I think it 's going to be for all of us too ! ’ said Anne 's father thoughtfully . |
| 20 | I 'm not encouraging it because as I say I really , present time I ca n't see that it 's going to be of any assistance to me to have the opinion of solicitors from er from any part really , from the defendant or or someone else . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | If she was going to decline Mr O'Hara 's proposal , it was going to be for that very reason . |
| 23 | Two of my colleagues from the BBC did , it is true , succeed in smuggling an entire satellite telephone system ( complete with dish ) through Iraqi customs shortly before the war began , and there are plenty of guns in private hands which can be bought ; but the Mukhabarat are everywhere , and it would be impossible to find out where Saddam was going to be at any given time . |
| 24 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 25 | ‘ You knew it was going to be like this , Frank , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ If I 'd known it was going to be like this I 'd have gone ages ago ! ’ |
| 27 | If was going to be in that room in the vicinity of the bed presumably two places he could be , under the duvet or under the bed . |
| 28 | Mellor , too , who denied yesterday evening that the Government was going to be in any way disagreeable to the BBC . |