Example sentences of "was [v-ing] to be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally titled ‘ The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion Featuring A Choice Collection Of Tomes , Songs , Odes And Anthems From The Most Eminent Authors In The United States ’ , this is the record that was struggling to be heard inside the more studio-constricted ‘ Money Maker ’ . |
| 2 | Elsewhere , however , Britain 's imitation of Hollywood was proving to be built on ground more insecure than the area around the San Andreas fault . |
| 3 | How did one ask someone what they were doing on the night of the twenty-eighth if one was pretending to be engaged in merely casual conversation ? |
| 4 | By the beginning of 1968 Britain was ceasing to be regarded by many Americans as either a powerful or a special ally . |
| 5 | Even from the distance she could see Doreen clasping his arm while looking up into his face , and it was easy to guess that she was pleading to be moved into a chalet . |
| 6 | ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . ' |
| 7 | I had n't known that I was going to be presented with such a large sum . |
| 8 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 9 | ‘ How did you know that letter was going to be sent to me ? ’ |
| 10 | If the empire was going to be run on character , Furse was confident he could supply it . |
| 11 | Mr Berlusconi made it clear from the start that his new purchase was going to be run like any other company . |
| 12 | Before long , through unobtrusive questioning , he had discovered the root of the boy 's fear — simply that he did not know what was going to be done to him . |
| 13 | I also hoped that the speculation at work as to what was going to be done with George 's office would die down for a while . |
| 14 | Productivity had to go up and this was going to be achieved through the introduction of new capital rather than the introduction of new labour . |
| 15 | Little did he know that , for the saddest of reasons , he was going to be thrust into the national , even international spotlight . |
| 16 | So when he was told he was going to be transferred to the Sheriff 's Wayside Honor Farm at Castaic , he told reporters , ‘ I 've been pretty happy in the tank here . |
| 17 | The other letter informed the victim that he was going to be prosecuted for overloading his builder 's van , he was in fact prosecuted and fined . |
| 18 | Kirov realized that he was going to be pestered by the man until he made some sort of complimentary comment . |
| 19 | ‘ Sam dragged Scott from the road because he was afraid he was going to be hit by another car , ’ said Scott 's grateful mother Caroline at Milton Keynes General Hospital yesterday . |
| 20 | It was clear that the pace of the interview was going to be determined by this slow , strong man . |
| 21 | There were major changes afoot in the nature of the war in the Middle East and , like it or not , the SAS was going to be placed under far firmer control . |
| 22 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 23 | He felt a mixture of astonishment at himself and irritation that his rigid daily routine was going to be broken after forty undisturbed years . |
| 24 | That was going to be written on his heart . |
| 25 | How the owners of these desirable residences had complained ten years ago when they found that the Garfield Centre was going to be built in their neighbourhood . |
| 26 | ‘ If we knew where one of these things was going to be flown into space , ’ he said , speaking quickly before the words had time to escape , ‘ and we could sort of hang on to the sides or whatever , or maybe drive it like the Truck , and we took you with us , then we could jump off when we got up there and go and find this ship of ours , could n't we ? ’ |
| 27 | Chairman I , I , I am and some of my colleagues a little confused on this paper , erm and I really ask that I , I understood that when we discussed this last , erm that the , the minor work which was one , one debated , erm was going to be increased to two million and that two million er , two million spend was going to come out of the existing budget , I 'm not quite sure from this whether it is or it is n't , could you explain ? |
| 28 | ‘ Because , ’ said Henry , ‘ my pig wife was going to be made into bacon . ’ |
| 29 | Is the contractor entitled to be relieved of responsibility on the basis that if the variation was going to be made in any event at that time , to have been further advanced in the contract programme would only have made it more expensive for the client ? |
| 30 | I was going to be crowned at the Foinmen , standing on the Altar . " |