Example sentences of "[adv] it was [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd have been a lot more worried if I 'd known how much it was going to be … |
| 2 | It looked tiny , no more than an emergency shelter , which of course was all it was intended to be . |
| 3 | Oh yes anything that happened down the glen or way was heard that from the pack man so it was bound to be true . |
| 4 | So it was designed to be attractive to look at , but with curves , ovals and an absence of straight lines to make it difficult to swim in . |
| 5 | But today it was going to be different . |
| 6 | Well it was going to be a pound was n't it , not two pounds that will be an awful lot . |
| 7 | A century ago it was considered to be as good as the Normande , and better as a butcher 's beast , but a combination of war and frontier changes led to its deterioration ; it was crossed with Danish Red as well as Belgian Red to form the Flemish Red , which is usually whole red , though some have mottled or blazed faces . |
| 8 | Maybe it was going to be like the Cultural Revolution in China and we were all going to be given the chance to team up with the aliens . |
| 9 | Then it was meant to be Detroit , Chicago , St Louis and work its way west and end in Los Angeles but word of mouth , the cover story in Rolling Stone which Tony coerced out of them , and various other things created such a sensation that they lengthened it . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly it was going to be a beautiful day , a summer 's day such as is unequalled anywhere in the world but in the South of England , a day that begins with mists , burgeons into tropical glory and dies in blue and gold and stars . |
| 11 | I have a very clear recollection of Nigel de Grey , sometime Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Intelligence Division during the First World War , giving us a lecture on security which was psychologically scarifying , as indeed it was meant to be . |
| 12 | Primarily it was designed to be an animal fountain for the herds of beasts that sauntered around on market day . |
| 13 | Until recently it was assumed to be a flattened axisymmetric spheroid ( that is , one which is round in the plane of the Galaxy ) . |
| 14 | So productivity increased tremendously , and therefore it was going to be a success . |