Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 2 | Alternatively , just hang plants from hooks above the window , or stand small pots of plants along the windowsill , making sure that the ones you select are going to be happy with the kind of light , temperature and humidity you are providing . |
| 3 | At Orbec , twenty kilometres from Lisieux , is the Caneton , a restaurant which you know is going to be good as soon as you enter its doors — the smell is so appetizing — but it is small and not exactly unknown , so it is prudent to telephone for a table in advance . |
| 4 | If you have a good and close relationship with your mother you should be able to talk to her , but sometimes things are not even as straightforward as this , and if you are close to someone who you know is going to be upset or disappointed in you , it may be even harder to do . |
| 5 | However , the one thing I was most emphatically told , was that learning to dive was going to be fun . |
| 6 | Likewise , upgrading is going to be impossible . |
| 7 | The , the last one that I bought was going to be easy , but oh . |
| 8 | ‘ I think a lot of Canadians have been waiting with baited breath for several months wondering whether he will stay or go and I think the fact he 's leaving is going to be good for the country , ’ the deputy Liberal leader , Sheila Copps , said . |
| 9 | To have to submit to having a part of one 's body removed while one slept was going to be bad . |
| 10 | Since remote sensing data sets ( especially those pertaining to terrestrial areas of the globe ) typically need much pre-processing to calibrate , transform and then perform an inference process and hence convert measurements of the radiation reflected or emitted by small areas of ground into useful ( e.g. land cover ) data , the processing power required is going to be formidable . |
| 11 | Material written in the hope or the expectation that it will be published is going to be different from material that is never expected to be read by anyone other than the author and perhaps a close friend . |