Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supposed dogma that no new prerogatives may be created hardly matters when there are endless old ones such as this waiting to be discovered . |
| 2 | How is a ‘ cognisant episode ’ such as this going to be analysed away into the language of activity ? |
| 3 | ‘ So — is this going to be the last day of my life ? ’ |
| 4 | I wondered , to quote a phrase used by Greg fifteen years before , was this going to be ‘ the end of family life as I knew it ’ ? |
| 5 | Mary White , the secretary of the Mount Leinster MAG warned , ‘ You may think this going to be a small hole gouged out of the mountain but it reaches for five miles on top of Tomduff . |
| 6 | What sort of Substitute Prosecutor was this going to be ? |
| 7 | Is this going to be enough ? |
| 8 | Was this going to be the man who won Madeleine 's heart ? |
| 9 | So , so , when do you , as far as your concerned is this going to be sorted out ? |
| 10 | Started off wet and I thought , Oh is this going to be miserable ? |
| 11 | Erm so I just , that 's the first , I mean , how easy is this going to be do you think , and |
| 12 | could United hold on … was this going to be their first away win of the season … |
| 13 | Was this going to be the ultimate in body language , or a pointless gimmick ? |
| 14 | Ah well I I is this going to be , if it 's a boy is this going to be a Benjamin ? |
| 15 | Ah well I I is this going to be , if it 's a boy is this going to be a Benjamin ? |
| 16 | And Andrew goes oh , is this going to be let Joanne everybody with a picture ! |
| 17 | Here there are rows of steam locomotives in a large shed , some waiting to be overhauled and others stored until their services are required . |
| 18 | It was obviously an artist 's studio , with stacks of pictures , some completed , some waiting to be framed . |
| 19 | I rode Drifter back with the rest of the string and went into breakfast , half expecting to be told I would n't be allowed to ride Fringe . |
| 20 | After a moment 's hesitation she sat in one of the large armchairs , half expecting to be pushed on to the settee , but he allowed her to sit alone , only raising an eyebrow as he lowered himself into the matching chair . |
| 21 | It 's so relentless , this being grown up , this having to be considered , poised , at home within a shifting four-dimensional matrix of Entirely Valid Considerations . |
| 22 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 23 | Each had its own project to attend to … checking on nesting boxes they had some months earlier put among the trees … on the stream … recording the height of various trees planted the autumn before … and there was also some weeding to be done , as always , among the ranks of young trees . |
| 24 | This morning he 's on the road by six-thirty hoping to be at his desk an hour and fifteen minutes later , at seven forty five . |
| 25 | Brian never seemed to notice that the children were very odd looking to be the son and daughter of a pair of fair-haired blue-eyed ectomorphs . |
| 26 | There had never been so much ‘ In Years Gone By ’ copy set , or so much waiting to be set . |
| 27 | If so , there is much rethinking to be done , for the theoretical paradigms that have dominated the last twenty years have nothing resembling an adequate critical framework for dealing with a factor as flagrantly nonabstract , as defiantly corporeal , as embarrassingly tangible as this . |
| 28 | It is pointless trying to be the only one in step . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've to see them at the bank shortly — there 's that Buttering to be fixed , and no money for it wi'out they 'll give me a loan . ’ |
| 30 | Was that going to be enough ? |