Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [be] [verb] to be " in BNC.

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1 I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel .
2 Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny .
3 Mr Chairman I am going to be brief within the er triscale and resources we have available to us we may , I think , a reason of what an attempt to get back in current idiom , back to basics .
4 Thinking I was going to be pulled into some thicket and raped and murdered .
5 It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft !
6 As the role of er , business in the community is well at the top of personal agenda , in my job as I B M Personnel Director and Director of Corporate Affairs , the Corporate Affairs bit , er , is the piece I 'm going to be talking about .
7 ‘ Next term I 'm going to be teaching part of a course on the influence of gender on style , ’ Loretta added , again to little response .
8 The department I was attached to was fighting an uphill battle against prejudice from the old school clique and the niggardly allowances from the Treasury .
9 In future she is going to be harder .
10 Because if you 're speaking from a script you 're going to be speaking like this .
11 In these traditional roles she is shown to be effective .
12 And with those computers they were bound to be receptive . ’
13 Anti-English slanders they were held to be by the genteel Victorian travellers who continued to come to the Pyrenees .
14 In the parents ' houses the Dynmouth Hards crept upstairs and into bedrooms in which other people slept , considerate because in their homes they were required to be .
15 That 's all they had to go on — they did n't even know what key they were meant to be playing in .
16 He was searching for a complete lyricist who could add flavour to songs he was intending to be covered by bigger artists .
17 But with football it is going to be different .
18 Although this is rarely the sole cause of the iron deficiency , in one study it was found to be a contributing factor in 57% of patients .
19 The hero was being filmed taking his 10-month-old baby to the pool when he gets the first indication he is going to be threatened .
20 So whilst it 's desirable to encourage the use of rail , I think in in in practice it 's going to be er very difficult to achieve that and in therefore you should look at public transport in the round .
21 Another engagement he was hoping to be offered was from Her Majesty — to be detained at her pleasure .
22 If the word exists in the dictionary it is taken to be the answer .
23 Erm the proposal I 'm referring to is in the view of the county council in the open countryside .
24 I 'm going to be lively until I get a cat , if I do n't get a cat I 'm going to be lively for ever .
25 ‘ The kind of third degree I was subjected to was not justified .
26 ‘ Besides , it pays to know a few things about a bloke you 're going to be sharing with , especially when that bloke 's topped three other geezers . ’
27 ‘ In the present case the act or omission of the defendant occurred while he was driving a motor car upon a public highway , and it was , we think , then reasonably foreseeable that such act or omission might cause injury to a pregnant woman in the car with which his car collided and might cause the child she was carrying to be born in an injured condition .
28 Ten miles away at Ludlow you are bound to be impressed by its looming castle , the delightful mixture of Georgian and medieval architecture and the interesting museum of local history .
29 Mid-June finds you thinking of changing your place of residence and by July you 're going to be happier than you have been in quite some time !
30 Before the marriage she is discovered to be pregnant .
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