Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not even going to be worth half of that , or a third of that let's say . |
| 2 | I only wondered because I 've got to go out later , I need to get somebody else to come in and , and be here but if I think it 's only going to be about that . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've had a bad start , and you 're not going to be over this illness in a couple of days , but I 'm sure you can beat it . |
| 4 | This was not going to be at all easy . |
| 5 | However , given the weakness of France 's position since 1815 , the task was not going to be at all easy . |
| 6 | He also believes that a Martian might be able to understand symbols ( and so apparently assumes that the Martian is not going to be at all like any future ( IBM computer ) . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're not going to be at all happy if they see any photographs of us together . ’ |
| 8 | Two of my colleagues from the BBC did , it is true , succeed in smuggling an entire satellite telephone system ( complete with dish ) through Iraqi customs shortly before the war began , and there are plenty of guns in private hands which can be bought ; but the Mukhabarat are everywhere , and it would be impossible to find out where Saddam was going to be at any given time . |
| 9 | If he 's going to make it , it 's going to be with this picture . ’ |
| 10 | If she was going to decline Mr O'Hara 's proposal , it was going to be for that very reason . |
| 11 | ‘ I think it 's going to be for all of us too ! ’ said Anne 's father thoughtfully . |
| 12 | In other words , when it comes to an attempt to understand how someone is likely to respond to a stimulus , a description of the stimulus in terms of its simple physical dimensions is not going to be of any value . |
| 13 | The Western-financed dams received all the attention ; the numerous jobs that needed to be done if the dams were going to be of any use had scant priority . |
| 14 | ‘ If you 're going to be of any use to me at all , the work has to start now . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose , McAllister , if you 're going to be of any real use to me — ’ He was interrupted by Rose bursting in , a Greek chorus of depressed-looking women following her . |
| 16 | And the tried and true w , tested , the tried and tested ways are n't necessarily going to be of any use to you . |
| 17 | Is this actually a book that er is going to be of any assistance to me ? |
| 18 | I 'm not encouraging it because as I say I really , present time I ca n't see that it 's going to be of any assistance to me to have the opinion of solicitors from er from any part really , from the defendant or or someone else . |
| 19 | Well we 'll see if there , if there well the jury can have a look at them if they want , certainly if er if neither side think they 're going to be of any assistance then there 's not much point in producing them . |
| 20 | In a way , long-term , something you do in science is possibly going to be of more value , but it 's very necessary , I think , literature and things like that are very much part of your life , you 'd go mad without them , I certainly would ; so I do n't think you can really assign values like that — it 's just where your personal interest and qualities lie , what you 're best at . |
| 21 | Ships did not often come down this coast , and I said to myself , ‘ I 'm going to be on this island for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | If you know that employers are using immigrants as cheap labour , and that they 're being used to undercut your rates of pay , you 're going to be against that . |
| 23 | The nineties are not going to be like that . |
| 24 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , if you 're going to be like that … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The hardest thing for me is knowing I had so many good years , so many great moments , because it means you always think it is going to be like that . |
| 27 | ‘ Is it going to be like that always ? |
| 28 | ‘ It 's always going to be like that here and anyone who thinks differently is living in cloud cuckoo land . ’ |
| 29 | ROS : I 'm not going to play if you 're going to be like that . |
| 30 | ‘ If you 're going to be like that , I 'm going home , ’ said Sam , but Camille had recovered her spirits . |