Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was widely felt , while the Bill was passing into law , that the programmes of study were going to be inflexibly prescriptive . |
| 2 | He advocated the combined system and regretted that , at the very moment when state aid was going to be available for the education of the deaf and dumb for the first time , oral teaching was recommended by the Report of the Royal Commission . |
| 3 | You placed bets on what card was going to be drawn and you had to guess correctly to get your money back . |
| 4 | With nearly half the votes counted , it was clear the outgoing four-party coalition was going to be hard put to get a working majority in the Rome parliament . |
| 5 | Gordon Carlisle , chairman of the Law Society of Scotland 's planning committee , and a partner in Glasgow firm McClure Naismith Anderson & Gardiner , said : ‘ The result was going to be something nobody could rely on but which would , nevertheless , affect land values and cause blight . |
| 6 | Alice saw that murder was going to be done , and shrieked uselessly . |
| 7 | At that period of the nineteenth century when the discipline of anthropology was coming into being , material culture studies represented the very core of this emergent social science ( e.g. Haddon 1895 ; Tylor 1881 ) . |
| 8 | At one point , he was screaming at the top of his voice ; he also relived his own birth , met his fears of homosexuality and had the most terrifying fright ‘ that my prick was going to be cut off ’ . |
| 9 | As far as myself , Mike and Marius were concerned , this was a good thing , as it meant that the march was going to be tough and that those of us who finished would deserve their white képis . |
| 10 | The rain kept starting and stopping and it looked as if most of our march was going to be in the wet . |
| 11 | How any attempt was going to be made when she was in Mariánské Láznë and Ven in Prague , she had n't fathomed as she made her way down to breakfast . |
| 12 | It was clear that the pace of the interview was going to be determined by this slow , strong man . |
| 13 | In spite of himself , the lawyer was beginning to be interested . |
| 14 | Yeah , yeah , I 'm , none the less we have got the comments of three , three in front of us and we see that the accumulate effect was going to be dangerous in the extreme if the money is not forthcoming |
| 15 | ‘ The album was going to be called NO BOLLOCKS ! , ’ laughs Cris Bonacci , ‘ but in the end we decided to call it simply Girlschool , because we realised we 'd never used the name of the band as a title before … ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes Henry wondered whether the junk food industry was going to be able to take the kind of demands Maisie was going to make on it in the years ahead . |
| 17 | Already , it seems , industry was coming to be concentrated on the north side of the Stour — Dedham lies opposite East Bergholt , a booming village — and that the gap was opening which forty-five years later was to be filled by the arrival of the Dutch bringing the techniques of the ‘ New Draperies ’ . |
| 18 | Some of the men who took part in this , like Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother-in-law Sir Humphrey Gilbert , were also attracted by the idea of getting lands on the other side of the Atlantic , and the success of the Spaniards encouraged them in the widespread belief that an immense amount of gold and silver was waiting to be discovered all over the Americas . |
| 19 | The couple , from Grimsby , Humberside , first feared their wedding was going to be a washout because of torrential rain . |
| 20 | Did he think his chef was going to be pleased with his achievement ? |
| 21 | AFTER a period when it looked as if airworthy examples of the type were going to be extinct in the UK , Hawker 's Sea Fury is making a comeback . |
| 22 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 23 | Ianthe said she would try to come , though it seemed as if Wednesdays in Lent were going to be almost too devotional with her uncle 's course of sermons at St Basil 's in the evenings . |
| 24 | His only concern at that time was whether his marriage was going to be able to stand up to his time in jail . |
| 25 | You needed to know what group you were in , who was in charge of that group , what the rules of attendance and work were , what was expected of you and by what criteria your work was going to be measured . |
| 26 | Then the war loomed up black and sinister ; my work was going to be interrupted . |
| 27 | By the 1960s , however , the ‘ success ’ of the existing social formation was beginning to be called into question in various ways . |
| 28 | I thought the screen test was going to be a disaster . ’ |
| 29 | So erm you know I 'm glad it 's only that but I suspect when the day comes his car will but he took these erm homeopathic tranquillisers of course thinking his test was going to be a couple of weeks ago . |
| 30 | The six o'clock Sukhumi-Tbilisi run was going to be busy again . |