Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was seeking to trade information , and he was going to be disappointed . |
| 32 | It was made more so by the billing he got as if it was the Second Coming or something and he was going to be a wonder player . |
| 33 | He signed for Liverpool when he was sixteen years old , and he was going to be a footballer . |
| 34 | Goo-Goo 's greed was legendary , and he was reputed to be a messy eater . |
| 35 | It is the middle of the lambing season and he was meant to be lambing . |
| 36 | Female choice has only properly been tested for in the case of one such character , the long tail of a species of widow bird , and it was confirmed to be operating . |
| 37 | The cap had a childproof seal , and it was proving to be pretty Lucasproof as well . |
| 38 | This investigation indicated that , although the potential existed for use of such systems by the departments , at that time the costs were high and there was a general lack of standards and a limited amount of expertise available , and it was felt to be unwise to consider any major capital investment . |
| 39 | Bror Blixen , Karen Blixen 's husband , had syphilis and it was said to be common among the Masai . |
| 40 | This stretch of canal holds a large head of fish but there are also a lot of carp and it was decided to be an unfair venue . |
| 41 | She just knew , she knew with absolute certainty , that in this vast , noisy , busy city , something would happen to her , and it was bound to be something good . |
| 42 | But then , dear Lizzie , for all the money — and it was reputed to be in millions — that her late husband had left her , had never known how to dress ; nor did any of the tribe of Braithwaites sitting around her , who had clearly chosen whatever had turned out to be the most expensive and put it on their large , angular bodies just anyhow . |
| 43 | He had difficulty ‘ sounding ’ because of this , and it was thought to be affecting his progress in learning to read . |
| 44 | In February 1991 E. was bruised and it was thought to be a non-accidental injury . |
| 45 | In 1941 a bomb fell on the College and it was thought to be the end of Halling Man but the bones were found with the relative animal bones and sent to the British Museum ( Natural History ) . |
| 46 | Teachers felt that this text offered them many opportunities for the development of the understanding of parental roles and it was thought to be a book from which all sorts of related topic work could be derived . |
| 47 | And it was considered to be worthy of treatment . |
| 48 | Policy makers sought to promote national health and welfare and it was considered to be in the nation 's interest to extend child and maternal welfare services . |
| 49 | The reports created sufficient interest for Sontochin to be synthesized and tested by the American company , and it was found to be active against malaria in canaries . |
| 50 | And then there was a study into and area of Belfast where most of the men were unemployed and it was the women who were going out to work in the factory and it was found to be the other way round , and the women spoke more of a non-standard than the men did when the men were staying at home . |
| 51 | The skep , with some comb still hanging to feed the bees through the cold times , was lifted onto a cloth , the spare bees scooped back into it , and it was wrapped to be carried back down to overwinter in the bee field . |
| 52 | And it was expected to be successful . |
| 53 | There was something cold-blooded about using his father 's death to make a poem ; she had changed the names so that she could attempt to get it published , and it was going to be . |
| 54 | ‘ It was planned ages ago and it was going to be a big do , but I do n't know what will happen now . ’ |
| 55 | Only John and Nora could see it , for only they knew of the terrible demand that would sooner or later be made on their resources — and it was going to be well over the hundred thousand that John had estimated . |
| 56 | And it was going to be a long term strategy . |
| 57 | And it was going to be just over there in the meadow . |
| 58 | It was probably the only aircraft flying the 250 miles to the Georgian capital that day and it was going to be busy . |
| 59 | Now I 'd have to say when I saw the report in the Observer , which was a couple of months ago , the rape in the quad report , my feeling was that this was a national newspaper picking on Oxford because Oxford and sex makes great headlines and it was going to be a good sell , and I felt that it was inappropriate in that sexual harassment is a problem in other campuses . |
| 60 | To be eligible to win either of these guitars you ( or a representative ) must be available to attend the show on Sunday 29th for the presentation , but you were going to be there anyway , were n't you ? |