Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the Treasury 's unhappiness at the amount of money the department was expending proved to be an important factor in its ultimate demise . |
| 2 | I was going to have to be careful from now on . |
| 3 | Christopher swiftly arranged for a six foot wall to be built along his boundary , and angrily muttered that it was going to have to be the Scottish islands . |
| 4 | Panic seemed attractive but pointless , this baby was going to have to be born within 24 hours now that the waters had gone , and the sooner we accepted this and welcomed the baby , the better . |
| 5 | There was something on his mind , anxiety , certainly , anxiety for his family ; perhaps he had realised that if he was to get anything out of Cowley at all he was going to have to be co-operative . |
| 6 | There had been a strong element of pretence contained in his behaviour towards Alexei thus far and , for the moment at least , the subterfuge was going to have to be continued . |
| 7 | That meant the control circuits were down , and that meant a whole new set of checks was going to have to be made . |
| 8 | She was going to have to be very careful with this man or things would be bad . |
| 9 | She was tough and she was going to have to be . |
| 10 | I was going to have to be extremely subtle about this . |
| 11 | As Fabia saw it then , if she did n't want her sister to heap coals of fire on her head when she got back — and Cara had more than enough on her plate at the moment — then she was going to have to be really pushy and go and ring Ven Gajdusek 's doorbell . |
| 12 | Oh , heavens , she thought as guilt again swamped her , she was going to have to be much more careful . |
| 13 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
| 14 | He seemed to fill it — the very air she was breathing seemed to be full of him , air that he had pulled deep into his lungs first … |
| 15 | Unknown to him , the stump on which he was standing happened to be a car-parts plant owned by Italians . |