Example sentences of "this be go to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reparations on this were going to be cosmic . |
| 2 | This is going to be awful ! |
| 3 | ‘ This is the first time I have made a gramophone recording at Watford — I 've done film music here , but I think the sound of this is going to be amazing , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Fuel burn at around 11 gallons per hour was what one might expect from the power plant , and the aircraft would undoubtedly benefit from turbo-charging although as always the trade-off in this is going to be increased maintenance costs . |
| 5 | For a moment you think ‘ this is going to be serious stuff ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh Caspar , this is going to be impossible . ’ |
| 7 | You also diminish their status when you tell them how to react : ‘ I 'm sorry , this is going to be boring — but here goes ’ or ‘ I 'm going to tell you a very funny story now . ’ |
| 8 | This is going to be great , I said to Taff as we settled ourselves in the trench and set up the Bren gun . |
| 9 | Er , er , and your mouth starts to water , and you 're thinking , this is going to be great . |
| 10 | this is going to be easy he thinks , so you 've made your mind up before you go to the shop , but unfortunately when you get there there 's a , they 've got these special hundred gram bars in because they , they have n't got a hundred , there 's a big sticker on them saying ten per cent more chocolate , extra bit free , extra ten per cent free , on the smaller bars , so which ones do you buy ? |
| 11 | I 'm not suggesting the military are , but that 's the impression coming off , that you know , all this is going to be easy , but I 'm sure it is n't . |
| 12 | Oh , oh this is going to be lovely it 's got a magic button |
| 13 | Then came 0–2 — ’ oh , oh , this is going to be tough ’ . |
| 14 | This is going to be exciting stuff I 'll tell you . |
| 15 | Do you think that perhaps this is going to be difficult and , if we do n't get back to those levels , then presumably you have to encourage local British people to , to make up the leeway so speak , because if you do n't it means hotels , restaurants , all kinds of businesses , could be in difficulty . |
| 16 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 17 | Oh this is going to be interesting |
| 18 | In readiness for the event I made all the arrangements I possibly could before the baby was born to make my return to work as smooth as possible , including hiring a nanny , and I thought that this was going to be easy … |
| 19 | This was going to be awkward , without a doubt . |
| 20 | This was going to be amusing . |