Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] was [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking I was going to be pulled into some thicket and raped and murdered . |
| 2 | It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft ! |
| 3 | The department I was attached to was fighting an uphill battle against prejudice from the old school clique and the niggardly allowances from the Treasury . |
| 4 | Moustaine explained in a low , controlled voice that any violence which was going to be dished out would come from him and the Corporals . |
| 5 | They argue that it is unnatural to break up a programme which was made to be viewed as a whole . |
| 6 | In early December 1990 the Defence Department had released an internal report which cited " errors of judgment and failures of supervision " in the programme which was estimated to be at least $1,300 million over budget and 18 months behind schedule . |
| 7 | And this school , of which afterwards he could only remember that he was so homesick , must have helped the mind which was alleged to be backward and was not . |
| 8 | There was also a genuine fear that open conflict between the two sides of the industry must be avoided ( a fear which was shown to be not entirely illusory in a subsequent reorganisation , see pp. 194–5 below ) . |
| 9 | When I was very young — about 5 years old — I wanted to be a pilot because I had this girlfriend who was going to be a stewardess . |
| 10 | Simon liked to impress , and having a girlfriend who was considered to be a high achiever gave him extra kudos . |
| 11 | He asked after Fred 's new play and she ran on with unconvincing enthusiasm about a young actress who was going to be in it . |
| 12 | Although this is rarely the sole cause of the iron deficiency , in one study it was found to be a contributing factor in 57% of patients . |
| 13 | Another engagement he was hoping to be offered was from Her Majesty — to be detained at her pleasure . |
| 14 | On 3 July the men of Huntingdonshire had made a perambulation in their county , which had until then been entirely forest , a perambulation which was declared to be ‘ in accordance with the Charter of the Forest ’ . |
| 15 | With that as its dominant posture , particular schemes could fail and it would still retain and perhaps even enhance its support , if it could claim that it pursued a course which was known to be difficult but which was still the ideologically sound thing to do . |
| 16 | Coun David Messham said the money which was going to be used on the consultation process would be better spent advertising and promoting the outstations . |
| 17 | Full enactment of the emergency package required a supplementary budget which was expected to be submitted to the Diet in October or November 1992 . |
| 18 | ‘ The kind of third degree I was subjected to was not justified . |
| 19 | In the medieval period these were seen as the custodians of an orthodoxy which was felt to be , if only potentially , challenged by self-authenticating mystical writings — a custodial role which seems to have lingered into the twentieth century . |
| 20 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 21 | I think you 've assumed the answer to my question which was going to be to , addressed to Mr . |
| 22 | Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having . |
| 23 | Here is a boy who was waiting to be punished . |
| 24 | I forgot to say that the guerrilla who was pretending to be a madman had let Sis . |
| 25 | ‘ In the present case the act or omission of the defendant occurred while he was driving a motor car upon a public highway , and it was , we think , then reasonably foreseeable that such act or omission might cause injury to a pregnant woman in the car with which his car collided and might cause the child she was carrying to be born in an injured condition . |
| 26 | But here was Mick telling him something , he was talking about a young girl , not a little girl , a young girl who was going to be a secretary . |
| 27 | Some years previously , however , a long tunnel , North Cross-cut , was taken off ( along a fault ) from a point further along the Deep Level ( see Fig. 19a ) to try the Dry Gill Vein — at the intersection it was found to be a barren quartz string . |
| 28 | The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding . |
| 29 | But when they sent the specimen to the Natural History Museum it was found to be the intestine of a hedgehog , if you will pardon the expression . |
| 30 | While for elementary pupils the object was to instil a feeling for the grandeur of the national language and literature , within the higher sector it was felt to be necessary to fire the pupils ' and students ' imaginations : to provide indirect moral inculcation through pleasurable and even joyous responses to literary values . |