Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Er I , I suppose yes they probably were expected to be in by a definite time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It may take time , but I 'm sure they really are going to be all right . ’ |
| 5 | They really were going to be in pictures . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was too young to sign the consent form and when Malc arrived , he also was found to be too young . |
| 8 | I thought it probably was going to be . |
| 9 | It really was going to be quite a race . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Another one is advertised as a ’ sabretooth survival saw ’ and it again is said to be able to pass unnoticed through metal detectors . |
| 12 | However , it too is thought to be moving to catch up with the market . |
| 13 | It never was designed to be one . |