Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [was/were] going to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet all the signs were that this was going to be a fruitless exercise . |
| 2 | Suppose you knew that this was going to be the last day of your life . |
| 3 | In readiness for the event I made all the arrangements I possibly could before the baby was born to make my return to work as smooth as possible , including hiring a nanny , and I thought that this was going to be easy … |
| 4 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 5 | She swore to herself that this was going to be the last child . |
| 6 | And as soon as I cradled the mass in my arms the conviction flooded through me that this was going to be the same as all the others . |
| 7 | Undecided , she had wondered if it might be too formal , but now she realised that this was going to be no jeans-and-sweater occasion . |
| 8 | And I , I , I , I , I , I would not have endeavoured to persuade you that this was going to be the land reform document that was , that this is it . |
| 9 | Now at that stage my Lord Mr er telephoned Mr on the afternoon of the twenty second of October and it 's his case that he explained what had happened at the meeting of the bank to him and er asked him again , in view of the fact that was having to sell him home , if it was possible to withdraw from the contract and it is the plaintiff 's case that he pointed out to Mr er quite definitely and quite clearly on the telephone , on this day , er that without er the funding that he had required to run this business er he could only see that this was going to be potentially disastrous for him er and once again , my Lord as he said this was a fairly heated conversation and er the plaintiff was told by Mr once again that there was no way out for him and he should now concentrate all his efforts on achieving completion , er and once again we were . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ The assistant chief constable of Merseyside said that this was going to be the greatest fraud trial since Poulson . |
| 11 | My immediate aim , however , was a cost-neutral reform — and that was going to be difficult enough . |
| 12 | We knew then that he was an absolutely first-class actor and that was going to be his profession . |
| 13 | It looked as though we 'd had our little flurry and that was going to be it . |
| 14 | It seemed as if that was going to be in doubt as well for a moment , but then he swung the door wide in a parody of a silent welcome . |
| 15 | Productivity had to go up and this was going to be achieved through the introduction of new capital rather than the introduction of new labour . |
| 16 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
| 17 | It was happening in the summer and autumn of that year , and having now established who he was , people in the movie business were asking if this was going to be his big break , while out there in the communes and on the streets , the rebels were electing him and Hopper , and , to a lesser degree , Fonda , their champions . |
| 18 | He wondered if his outlook would change , or if this was going to be the pattern of it for the future . |
| 19 | The news broke that we were to have another squadron of Pathfinders , but these were going to be crack troops flying Mosquitoes , a much smaller aircraft than the good old faithful Lancaster , and much faster . |
| 20 | And so since that was going to be demolished and built over by a a housing estate anyway , we ripped it out and put it back down here . |
| 21 | When Benito Mussolini ( 1883–1945 ) invented fascism in the 1920s ( literally national socialism ) , it was not quite clear whether this was going to be a force to use against Sovietism or a collectivist evil in its own right . |
| 22 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |