Example sentences of "it [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was beginning to be apparent that the decline in the birth rate would radically affect these calculations . |
| 2 | It was beginning to be clear there was something fearful about her mother . |
| 3 | It was beginning to be light and swallows , gathering to fly away , were noisy and busy round the eaves . |
| 4 | I bet he could n't know whether it was gon na be good or but I bought it . |
| 5 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 6 | e I read it yesterday and it was gon na be alright , it said fine . |
| 7 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 10 | I thought it was going to be easy . |
| 11 | ‘ Who told you it was going to be easy . ’ |
| 12 | She looked at him and for a moment he thought that this time it was going to be easy , this time she would believe him and go to sleep . |
| 13 | No one every said it was going to be easy . |
| 14 | ‘ At 2–0 I thought it was going to be easy but in the end it was n't easy at all , ’ admitted Charlton in his after-match press conference . |
| 15 | It was going to be sheer pain to say it , but acid agony to hold it in . |
| 16 | He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them . |
| 17 | ‘ It made it seem as if it was going to be superficial . |
| 18 | The February 1974 election turned out to be close , but few thought it was going to be close at the time . |
| 19 | It was going to be awkward and embarrassing . |
| 20 | You knew it was going to be awful , but you had to know . |
| 21 | She said it was going to be foggy tonight . |
| 22 | I thought it was going to be marvellous . |
| 23 | If they made it , it was going to be great . |
| 24 | Poor Maxine had such a low opinion of herself that it was going to be necessary to build up her confidence in general , so that she would then be able to play a part in her own treatment . |
| 25 | The captain ordered the carpenter and his mates to standby , as it was going to be necessary to cut the masts away to lighten the ship . |
| 26 | AS SOON AS YOU AWOKE you knew it was going to be hot . |
| 27 | If it was like this at the end of May , it was going to be insufferable by July and August . |
| 28 | ‘ As soon as I stood up I knew it was going to be bad . |
| 29 | The last word must go to Nick : ‘ She said it was going to be different , but I did n't realise quite how different . |
| 30 | But today it was going to be different . |