Example sentences of "was n't [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had seen the writing on the wall : after the oil crisis of 1973 there was n't going to be enough money to keep all the universities enthusiastically created or expanded in the booming sixties in the style to which they had become accustomed . |
| 32 | But my worry was that there was n't going to be enough space there for you to perhaps say all you wanted to say . |
| 33 | She was n't going to be happy until that two-fifty was zapped back across the void to Mirabeau Precinct . |
| 34 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 35 | Our pit was n't going to be big , but we still used a pier as a precautionary measure . |
| 36 | Although Gaumont-British also declared a loss in 1937 , of £98,000 , Balcon 's departure from the company was precipitated by the prospect of Maxwell , a man whose production philosophy he abhorred , taking a stake in the company , and a general sense that he was n't going to be able to continue the same broad-based production policy as before . |
| 37 | ‘ I realised he was n't going to be able to stop and all I could do was watch him come closer and closer to me . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | She was n't going to be able to reach any sensible decision while she was anywhere near this house . |
| 40 | I warned you I was n't going to be able to consider you and any doubts , hesitations or scruples you might have this time around , and I should have remembered that . |
| 41 | Kate returned to her job in London with her armour firmly in place , and if , for the first time , she was conscious of an emptiness in her life that her job was n't going to be able to satisfy she refused to accept it . |
| 42 | When I was ill and was told I would have to go on a diet for the rest of my life I felt totally deprived that I was n't going to be able to eat junk food any more . |
| 43 | But she also wanted to get out of this mess with an ounce of pride , and she was n't going to be able to do that if she was prising details about Matthew from the chambermaids , even if it was through Mandy ! |
| 44 | But if trouble came looking for me I was n't going to be hard to find . |
| 45 | I was told that there was n't going to be any nonsense like last time . |
| 46 | There clearly was n't going to be any Douglas Fairbanks Jnr that night . |
| 47 | The only problem with this pleasing scenario was that there was n't going to be any baby . |
| 48 | The landlord intervened , relieved there was n't going to be any trouble . |
| 49 | I think there , there was a genuine democratic element to this that , that it , i i i it was n't going to be forcible socialism , it was going to be socialism which would come naturally because that would be what the population wanted . |