Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So obviously this guest cottage of yours is going to be just perfect . ’ |
| 2 | Someone is going to be very disappointed . |
| 3 | Sooner or later someone is going to be killed in such an accident . |
| 4 | This means that next summer Yorkshire will have only eight championship matches to share around the six venues instead of 11 , so someone is going to be disappointed . |
| 5 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that , subsequent to the accident at the Severn tunnel on 7 December , the Government 's railway inspectorate removed and confiscated a length of self-healing cable , which is suspected to be part of the cause of the signalling failures that may have led to the accident ? |
| 6 | WHEN John Boorman took on the job of co-editing this anthology , which is intended to be an annual event , and writing the chronicle of 1991 which comprises almost half its contents , he can not have imagined that he would be revealing so much about the reasons for his own creative decline . |
| 7 | At the same meeting at which the Vial memorandum was read , on 6 September 1791 , a letter to the secretary from Messrs Kirkman and Hendy ( who were present ) was produced : ‘ Sir , In consequence of your Advertisement we beg leave to inform you , that we have contracted with Lord Camden for about 100 acres of building land , near [ Old ] St Pancras Church , abutting on the Turnpike Road leading to Kentish Town , which is intended to be called Camden Town conceiving the situation eligible for your truly valuable Institution we request you will lay this our proposal before the Society — We hold this Land under his Lordship for 99 years from Michaelmas last , the three first subject to no Ground Rent , our proposal is , that Lord Camden does and he will under our direction grant the Society a lease for 99 years from that time , the three first subject to no rent but for the remainder of the term an Annual Rent of thirty pounds per acre , should this proposal meet with approbation , the Society have only to direct their Surveyor to make out any quantity of land and in what position they conceive will best answer their purpose ’ . |
| 8 | In 1981 , the British Standards Institution published its Roots Thesaurus which is intended to be a model thesaurus from which terms may be drawn . |
| 9 | Therefore , the required relationship exists where one person holds himself out as an expert and gives advice which is intended to be taken seriously and acted upon even though no contractual relationship exists . |
| 10 | In addition to reading the quality standards it is useful to refer to Best Practice , published by the Law Society and its current Office Manual ( which is intended to be sufficient to enable small firms to comply with the practice management standard ) . |
| 11 | a greenbelt which is intended to be permanent , a capac a city which has |
| 12 | ‘ A dance is a walk which is felt , ’ says Shklovsky ; ‘ even more accurately , it is a walk which is constructed to be felt ’ ( 1973a : 48 ) . |
| 13 | They came up with the Militant Clergy Association , which is understood to be moderate , and the Militant Clerics Society , which is described as left-wing fundamentalist . |
| 14 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 15 | VITALITE Light is a sunflower oil spread which is said to be high in polyunsaturated fat , and low in saturated fat and cholesterol . |
| 16 | For instance , in South-Eastern fashion , I name that commodity the love of which is said to be the root of all evil as ‘ munny ’ ; my Birmingham friend calls it ‘ mon-ay . ’ |
| 17 | One of the problems to have emerged is , however , the relativity of the concept of special educational need , which is said to be causing ‘ uncertainty and confusion ’ amongst LEAs , and consequently ‘ variations in the extent of and provision for special educational needs from LEA to LEA ’ . |
| 18 | Below the impermeable layer , water is trapped in the aquifer , which is said to be confined . |
| 19 | On Monday , the Assembly Rooms will open its doors on arts exhibition which is said to be the biggest ever promoted locally . |
| 20 | When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death . |
| 21 | The Open Software Foundation 's recent wrestling with its internal structure , which is said to be occasioned by its continuing financial angst , has resulted in a reorganisation that separates OSF/1 , the operating system that was its original raison d'etre , from the other technologies to which it has put its name . |
| 22 | In Florida , Miami 's POSLogic Corp is soon to announce its first product , the POSLogic 5000 Point of Sale System , which is said to be the first Unix-based system to incorporate both hardware and software as a fully integrated product , although NCR Corp , which has been slipping Unix processors in under its point-of-sale systems for several years , while making Unix invisible to the retailer , might demur . |
| 23 | Stateside gossip has it that Hitachi Ltd will announce a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ within the next 30 days : possibilities are either OSF/1 on its existing M-series mainframes , or the first fruits of its efforts with Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC , which is said to be a RISC-based Unix co-processor for the IBM-compatible mainframes . |
| 24 | There is a rough period which is said to be around 2070 days or just over 5½ years , but it is rough . |
| 25 | The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities has declared itself a potential purchaser but is apparently negotiating on the asking price which is said to be $2 million . |
| 26 | The new measures , similar to those in force in Britain and the US , were drawn up over the summer by Mr Lang 's Ministry , which is said to be interested in extending the French insurance model to the whole of Europe . |
| 27 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 28 | The function for English preferred by the Committee , then , is one of aligning the popular imagination and culture , ( what is elsewhere called the " public mind " ( see p.46 ) ) with a sense of communal identity having sufficient " sanity " to neutralize not only " the hostility towards " the culture of capitalism " now prevalent in Bolshevist Russia " , but indeed that antagonism and contempt for literature which is said to be found among " the working classes , especially those belonging to organised labour movements " . |
| 29 | Claimed to be more user friendly is a product from Interpet , Pond Balance , which is said to be environmentally safe and actually encourage plant growth . |
| 30 | If substantial public funds are to be made over to voluntary associations then , as Griffiths intimates , some form of audit ‘ becomes essential : and this raises the question of the independence of voluntary organisations , which is said to be one of their great virtues . |