Example sentences of "it [was/were] [v-ing] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was beginning to be apparent that the decline in the birth rate would radically affect these calculations . |
| 2 | It was beginning to be clear there was something fearful about her mother . |
| 3 | It was beginning to be light and swallows , gathering to fly away , were noisy and busy round the eaves . |
| 4 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
| 5 | Only John and Nora could see it , for only they knew of the terrible demand that would sooner or later be made on their resources — and it was going to be well over the hundred thousand that John had estimated . |
| 6 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 7 | I thought it was going to be easy . |
| 8 | ‘ Who told you it was going to be easy . ’ |
| 9 | She looked at him and for a moment he thought that this time it was going to be easy , this time she would believe him and go to sleep . |
| 10 | No one every said it was going to be easy . |
| 11 | ‘ At 2–0 I thought it was going to be easy but in the end it was n't easy at all , ’ admitted Charlton in his after-match press conference . |
| 12 | It was going to be sheer pain to say it , but acid agony to hold it in . |
| 13 | He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them . |
| 14 | ‘ It made it seem as if it was going to be superficial . |
| 15 | The February 1974 election turned out to be close , but few thought it was going to be close at the time . |
| 16 | It was going to be awkward and embarrassing . |
| 17 | You knew it was going to be awful , but you had to know . |
| 18 | She said it was going to be foggy tonight . |
| 19 | I thought it was going to be marvellous . |
| 20 | If they made it , it was going to be great . |
| 21 | Poor Maxine had such a low opinion of herself that it was going to be necessary to build up her confidence in general , so that she would then be able to play a part in her own treatment . |
| 22 | The captain ordered the carpenter and his mates to standby , as it was going to be necessary to cut the masts away to lighten the ship . |
| 23 | AS SOON AS YOU AWOKE you knew it was going to be hot . |
| 24 | If it was like this at the end of May , it was going to be insufferable by July and August . |
| 25 | ‘ As soon as I stood up I knew it was going to be bad . |
| 26 | The last word must go to Nick : ‘ She said it was going to be different , but I did n't realise quite how different . |
| 27 | But today it was going to be different . |
| 28 | It was going to be fine . |
| 29 | Manager Eric Sortwell said : ‘ We knew it was going to be busy but not as busy as this . ’ |
| 30 | It was probably the only aircraft flying the 250 miles to the Georgian capital that day and it was going to be busy . |