Example sentences of "[conj] [det] was [verb] 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 | It was two beats before I realised that this was meant to be a very funny joke and then I struggled to match his guffaws , adding my own rather reedy piping to his basso mirth . |
| 12 | We had Paul Gascoigne pulling someone 's shorts down the other night , and that was deemed to be a prankster at work . |
| 13 | How did the news media , scientists and governments take on board a claim that made no sense within the laws of physics , was based in part on wrong data and that was shown to be flawed within days of the announcement ? |
| 14 | My immediate aim , however , was a cost-neutral reform — and that was going to be difficult enough . |
| 15 | We knew then that he was an absolutely first-class actor and that was going to be his profession . |
| 16 | It looked as though we 'd had our little flurry and that was going to be it . |
| 17 | She said the TEC could offer disabled trainees help with loan of equipment , or could extend the tuition period if that was felt to be useful . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | During the 1960s , ozone concentrations generally increased by up to 10 per cent at some monitoring stations ( Komhyr et al. , 1971 ) , and this was believed to be associated with variation in solar radiation over the 11-year cycle ( Keating , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | Even major institutions with developing reputations were unsuccessful in their first-time submissions — and this was bound to be particularly true in arts and social studies where members were anxious to ensure appropriate standards of course content and all that related to it — including staffing and other resources . |
| 21 | The final phase in the procedure involved giving parents advice about prospective job opportunities for their children , and this was considered to be the most difficult part of the work as it meant balancing all the different factors in an attempt to situate the best applicant in the best position . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | The early mortality for elected admissions was point four percent and this was found to be significantly lower than the early mortality rate for emergency admissions which was two point four percent , some six times higher . |
| 25 | One of the brown immigrants deliberately poured some of his coffee over the pale slab of sugar crusted fruit pie he was eating , and this was thought to be a brilliant piece of improvised humour . |
| 26 | The order could , for example , provide for the child to live with his grandmother during term time and his parents during the school holidays if this was felt to be in his best interests . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He wondered if his outlook would change , or if this was going to be the pattern of it for the future . |
| 29 | An essential requirement surely , if this was meant to be in any way a useful gift , would be an adequate number of notes . |
| 30 | The songs fell together in a muddy pool of short-sighted production : not a bad début album by any standards but this was intended to be a complete signal post in the history of popular music . |