Example sentences of "it be [verb] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath . |
| 2 | We get up at 7 a.m. , and have breakfast at 7.30 ( now it 's getting to be more like 7.45 ! ) before we set out by car for the Institute where we start teaching at 8.30 . |
| 3 | And like any other baby it 's proving to be quite a handfull … especially at mealtimes . |
| 4 | ‘ In general we feel that , as far as nuclear power is concerned , it 's beginning to be far more acceptable . |
| 5 | It 's said to be as effective as the pill and experts say it 'll widen the choice for women . |
| 6 | It 's bound to be terribly complicated . ’ |
| 7 | Now whether it 's meant to be really her mother , or |
| 8 | But apparently , it 's meant to be really good there . |
| 9 | It 's meant to be really funny , |
| 10 | I , I do think it 's meant to be there to actually . |
| 11 | Without it 's have to be pretty decent . |
| 12 | ‘ And it 's going to be well down again this month , you might as well know that now . ’ |
| 13 | If it 's nicely done then I , I think it 's going to be well done . |
| 14 | So I said if it 's only for a mile it 's going to be well less than a minute at eighty , presuming you were doing more than thereabouts and er that was it . |
| 15 | It 's a bungalow , it 's going to be screened and it 's going to be right at the back , there 's going to be no no er |
| 16 | He 's got to work this one out for himself sooner or later , and it looks like it 's going to be sooner . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's going to be straight revolutionary stuff . ’ |
| 18 | It 's going to be pretty much a retrospective of our whole career . |
| 19 | Jamila said , ‘ What I 've agreed with myself is that it 's going to be tonight , at midnight , when I decide what to do . |
| 20 | Turkey was an amazing success for Club 18–30 in £89 — and it 's going to be even better in ‘ 00 . |
| 21 | ‘ Now it 's going to be just a predictable film with a beginning , a middle and an end . |
| 22 | Our safety regulations er dictate that they be a certain distance from the crowd , so that if anything did go wrong , the aircraft would be able to er get out of the way , but no , there is not going to be any danger at all , they 'll make their approaches to the base as if they were attacking , and then we 'll have simulated ground bursts , a large fire as it were , on the ground , it will be going off , providing the sound effects for it , but it 's going to be just a great thing to sit and watch . |
| 23 | And at the end of the day then , you have to weigh up whether or not you decide that even though , if you like in the strictest financial terms , it is not profitable to open the cinema and to employ staff doing that although presumably they 'd have to be employed doing something else unless you changed their rota patterns nonetheless because of your the demands of funding bodies , your own cultural aims and equal opportunities policies , you 've decided that you will do so even though it 's going to be marginally a loss in financial terms . |
| 24 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 25 | If we look to the future , then it 's going to be absolutely essential that food be produced artificially , because the planet is n't going to be able to support the population which it 's going to have on it . |
| 26 | ‘ I know it 's going to be very hard for me , ’ said Senna . |
| 27 | It 's going to be very strange , but I love all that because it gives me so much more of a challenge . |
| 28 | It 's going to be very tricky to explain on the doorsteps tomorrow , and things are hard enought in this marginal seat already . ’ |
| 29 | Political comment is restricted to : ‘ I think it 's going to be very close , do n't you ? ’ |
| 30 | It 's going to be very tough with Williams . |