Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [be] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was searching for a complete lyricist who could add flavour to songs he was intending to be covered by bigger artists . |
| 2 | He continually told his parents he was going to be famous but , like legions of other parents before them , they treated his claims with contempt . |
| 3 | ‘ For the next few days he is going to be a bit sore . |
| 4 | As a leading man in films he was expected to be nothing other than purely masculine . |
| 5 | JAMES Gilbey , the man linked with the Princess of Wales , last night laughed off suggestions he was going to be her public escort . |
| 6 | Erm I ca n't tell you what time he 'll be home really erm well say in the twenty minutes he 's bound to be home cos he he 's been home and then he 's had to shoot out again , he 's gone to get the battery so he wo n't be long . |
| 7 | Then , in the space of eighteen months , from commanding a regiment of a few thousand men he was to rise to be an Army Commander with over half-a-million at his behest . |
| 8 | No matter how cleverly the flyweight boxes he is going to be stuffed . |
| 9 | To the Nuer , god appears both as lofty and remote , though omnipotent , while sometimes approachable and near-at-hand : indeed on some occasions he is felt to be too close for comfort and is earnestly beseeched to withdraw his presence and leave his people in peace . |