Example sentences of "[det] [be] go to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reparations on this were going to be cosmic . |
| 2 | This is going to be awful ! |
| 3 | ‘ This is the first time I have made a gramophone recording at Watford — I 've done film music here , but I think the sound of this is going to be amazing , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Fuel burn at around 11 gallons per hour was what one might expect from the power plant , and the aircraft would undoubtedly benefit from turbo-charging although as always the trade-off in this is going to be increased maintenance costs . |
| 5 | For a moment you think ‘ this is going to be serious stuff ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh Caspar , this is going to be impossible . ’ |
| 7 | You also diminish their status when you tell them how to react : ‘ I 'm sorry , this is going to be boring — but here goes ’ or ‘ I 'm going to tell you a very funny story now . ’ |
| 8 | This is going to be great , I said to Taff as we settled ourselves in the trench and set up the Bren gun . |
| 9 | Er , er , and your mouth starts to water , and you 're thinking , this is going to be great . |
| 10 | this is going to be easy he thinks , so you 've made your mind up before you go to the shop , but unfortunately when you get there there 's a , they 've got these special hundred gram bars in because they , they have n't got a hundred , there 's a big sticker on them saying ten per cent more chocolate , extra bit free , extra ten per cent free , on the smaller bars , so which ones do you buy ? |
| 11 | I 'm not suggesting the military are , but that 's the impression coming off , that you know , all this is going to be easy , but I 'm sure it is n't . |
| 12 | It 's only the middle of April , but without a doubt this is going to be one of the best books of the year for me . |
| 13 | ‘ It looks as if this is going to be one of the best birthdays I 've ever had , ’ he said . |
| 14 | This is going to be one of those arguments . |
| 15 | Well why on earth , if you 're s , y'know , you embark on that route why do n't you put something in the budget for the fruits of that exercise and we believe that you can save money by that and that er this is going to be one of those budgets that 's gon na end up er under strength at the end of the day because of that . |
| 16 | So fraction of a circle fraction of a circle this is going to be one third times three sixty or we could say number of degrees here , fraction of a circle as number of degrees . |
| 17 | Oh , oh this is going to be lovely it 's got a magic button |
| 18 | Then came 0–2 — ’ oh , oh , this is going to be tough ’ . |
| 19 | This is going to be exciting stuff I 'll tell you . |
| 20 | Do you think that perhaps this is going to be difficult and , if we do n't get back to those levels , then presumably you have to encourage local British people to , to make up the leeway so speak , because if you do n't it means hotels , restaurants , all kinds of businesses , could be in difficulty . |
| 21 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 22 | Oh this is going to be interesting |
| 23 | ‘ The last thing I need is some husband-hunting female , scarcely out of the schoolroom , who thinks this is going to be some sort of pleasure cruise ! ’ |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | This was going to be awkward , without a doubt . |
| 27 | This was going to be amusing . |
| 28 | This was going to be twenty years hard . |
| 29 | Now , to be fair , you 'd have to say that only a few of these are going to be wacky enough to go for the fridge compilation album , but which ones ? |
| 30 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown added : ‘ These are going to be difficult times for the Royal Family and the whole House will wish to extend to them our sympathy , in particular to the Prince and Princess of Wales . ’ |