Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself formalizing my speech , as if I too was pretending to be in a drawing-room of forty years before . |
| 2 | If costs are quadratic and investors minimize current and expected future costs , then the cost function has the form : where d i is a discount factor ( which hereafter is assumed to be unity ) . |
| 3 | It appears that highly productive authors will not necessarily publish in those journals which have the highest circulation , and which hence are presumed to be those used for those papers which an author wishes to reach the largest possible readership . |
| 4 | Just to quickly assess that we were n't going forward to erm a horrible situation where er one of us or somebody else is going to be injured , so there would have been a very , very quick check to see who or what was in the room . |
| 5 | All the way home she held her tongue , answering only in monosyllables to her father 's habitual complaints and strictures , which never were meant to be taken too deeply to heart . |
| 6 | The discredited test was used since the Seventies to identify impurities , and many owners were given clean bills of health on houses which subsequently were found to be contaminated and are now in danger of collapse . |
| 7 | erm that 's why er you know really i it is essential that certainly who ever is going to be in that position knows what . |
| 8 | Loretta was able to refuse , mindful of a 10 a.m. lecture on Monday , when Bridget added : ‘ I 'll tell you who else is going to be there . |
| 9 | They very often do n't know what the something else is going to be , but we tend to put time limits on what children should do and when they should do it . |
| 10 | Now that the two main parts had been recast , there really was going to be a lot to do , and the company waved goodbye to their hopes of a cushy fortnight . |
| 11 | THERE never were going to be any winners of yesterday 's Maastricht debate . |
| 12 | Everyone here is going to be asked to give a statement . |
| 13 | Er I , I suppose yes they probably were expected to be in by a definite time . |
| 14 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 15 | ‘ It may take time , but I 'm sure they really are going to be all right . ’ |
| 16 | They really were going to be in pictures . |
| 17 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |
| 18 | I was too young to sign the consent form and when Malc arrived , he also was found to be too young . |
| 19 | I thought it probably was going to be . |
| 20 | It really was going to be quite a race . |
| 21 | This may sound bureaucratic and boring but without it there are bound to be anguishing problems of the kind : ‘ I handed in my work on time but it must have got lost in the pile ’ . |
| 22 | Another one is advertised as a ’ sabretooth survival saw ’ and it again is said to be able to pass unnoticed through metal detectors . |
| 23 | However , it too is thought to be moving to catch up with the market . |
| 24 | It never was designed to be one . |
| 25 | would try and get a lot more searching questions about how the curriculum was being developed in the school , what exactly was happening , what really was going to be the attitude of the Head to RBL in the future … |
| 26 | ELSE is evaluated , FALSE=0 and anything else is considered to be TRUE . |