Example sentences of "[was/were] go to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 2 | She had evidently decided that things were going to be all right . |
| 3 | This house was to be Lovat 's Brigade H.Q and it appeared that we were going to be there on high ground for some time . |
| 4 | It appeared that we were going to be there for some time . |
| 5 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 6 | After eight months the Chinese said we were going to be tried , but one month before the trial we were released . |
| 7 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 8 | The appointment of Mr Stürmer , a friend of Chancellor Kohl and a man often seen on television , made some of the staff fear they were going to be ‘ politicised ’ . |
| 9 | But in the weeks before they left they worked extremely hard at their fitness , were coached by Geoff Boycott to improve their batting technique , and insisted to the press that people back home in England were going to be pleasantly surprised . |
| 10 | In 1982 all these qualities looked as though they were going to be urgently required . |
| 11 | Yet it might also be argued that the major political parties ensured that , despite the attention which Mosley attracted , the fascists were going to be marginalized . |
| 12 | All the public-spirited , though rather dull , values the Festival stood for were going to be swamped in a growing tide of individualism and self-enrichment that gathered to its crescendo in the Macmillan years . |
| 13 | Whatever Messrs Mondale , Foot and Kinnock said about raising taxes in the 1980s , they were going to be beaten anyway . |
| 14 | The Unionists were going to be wiped out . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the teacher could have injected an element extrinsic to the drama in the structure by warning the listeners beforehand that they were going to be required to make an accurate report to the rest of the class with the talkers assessing their report for accuracy . |
| 16 | ‘ Or were going to be acquired , since the entries are in pencil . ’ |
| 17 | He said that the departure from Kabrit was a delightfully vague affair with nobody really having any clear idea of how long they were going to be away for , and not giving two hoots anyway . |
| 18 | Moreover , the ordinary soldiers never knew when , if ever , they were going to be moved ; army orders are notoriously arbitrary , capricious and incomprehensible to those receiving them . |
| 19 | He was angry because of the circumstances ; I was angry because I thought we were going to be robbed of the Open . |
| 20 | There was no doubt about it — things were going to be tight if she decided to continue to live at Tullivers . |
| 21 | Plenty of other people were going to be dead before the night was out . |
| 22 | Presumably this lining-up of grades , with equivalents in the old O level and CSE grading system , was undertaken in order to reassure people that ‘ standards ’ were going to be as rigorous as before . |
| 23 | It was very uncomfortable until firstly I started getting some of the programmes I had commissioned back , and secondly I saw on screen that some of them were going to be among the first successes of the Channel . |
| 24 | On some issues there was a good deal of discussion , but if by ‘ conviction government ’ it is meant that certain slogans were going to be elevated and written in tablets of stone and used as the put-down at the end of every argument , then , of course , that is indeed what happened . |
| 25 | But that if they did not make progress we were going to be in a really difficult situation which might have military overtones as well . |
| 26 | Just at that moment my gardener came with his basket , and when the woman realised that the flowers in the vase on my table were going to be thrown away , to make way for the fresh ones . |
| 27 | ‘ In this way boys and girls would get ample opportunity of guidance as to their choice of careers , and those who were going to be apprenticed or learn skilled trades might have all their arrangements made while still at school . ’ |
| 28 | It was widely felt , while the Bill was passing into law , that the programmes of study were going to be inflexibly prescriptive . |
| 29 | The final stage of assessment was the negotiation of a treatment contract , including which of the patient 's problems were going to be tackled and the practical arrangements for treatment sessions . |
| 30 | They really were going to be in pictures . |