Example sentences of "[noun] were going [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Western-financed dams received all the attention ; the numerous jobs that needed to be done if the dams were going to be of any use had scant priority . |
| 2 | It was widely felt , while the Bill was passing into law , that the programmes of study were going to be inflexibly prescriptive . |
| 3 | I did the pictures , but I remember being horrified that these pictures were going to be printed . |
| 4 | That way she 'd be more in command of the situation instead of turning up the next morning knowing all eyes were going to be fixed on her . |
| 5 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 6 | Rostov realised that signs and shrugs were going to be inadequate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Whatever happened , the losses were going to be his responsibility . |
| 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 | It would help us to implement this if we knew our concerns were going to be addressed with research ’ . |
| 11 | He commented : ‘ We were woken up with a jolt when we found out that Spinneys were going to be bought out by some ‘ jocks from over the border ’ . |
| 12 | Mozart began work on Tito in late July , not knowing at that stage who the singers were going to be . |
| 13 | AFTER a period when it looked as if airworthy examples of the type were going to be extinct in the UK , Hawker 's Sea Fury is making a comeback . |
| 14 | Ianthe said she would try to come , though it seemed as if Wednesdays in Lent were going to be almost too devotional with her uncle 's course of sermons at St Basil 's in the evenings . |
| 15 | The Germans were very friendly — we all went with preconceived ideas of what the people and place were going to be like . |
| 16 | Once he had called it , appealed to aggiornamento , banned anathemas , included observers of other Churches within its deliberations , and allowed it to have its head against the warnings of the guardians of the old order such as Ottaviani and Ruffini , the consequences were inevitable : the foundations of many hundred years were going to be rocked upon every side . |
| 17 | No hearts were going to be broken , he told her with the frankest face , if he were to run off with a Protestant and have a dozen kids . |
| 18 | With the introduction of such a large development , obviously extensive changes were going to be likely , not only in computer terms , but also in the administration of payroll and personnel records and in the organisational requirements for the new system . |
| 19 | She had evidently decided that things were going to be all right . |
| 20 | There was no doubt about it — things were going to be tight if she decided to continue to live at Tullivers . |
| 21 | Little did I know how useful these things were going to be to me in the future . |
| 22 | With our limited experience it was seldom easy to calculate how hard things were going to be . |
| 23 | Er a specific on only thing that might have been I think was really , erm the erm the concern that some people expect erm are for rural areas , whether there was going t there were going to be con whether things were going to be spread thinner on the ground in rural areas , particularly sort of transport costs , and of course erm there 's one , but nevertheless , the concern that that would be underlying that and the erm the erm the the rural community |
| 24 | With a brief nod and a smile that again dazzled and at the same time almost lulled her into thinking things were going to be normal between them from now on , he left . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Unionists were going to be wiped out . |
| 27 | I talked them into it because at first they were scared , one because they thought they 'd get docked for it — but they said we could have half a day off for it and not get docked — and also because they thought Ros and Maureen were going to be looking down on them , " Oh , you 're only young girls ' , things like that . |
| 28 | Plenty of other people were going to be dead before the night was out . |
| 29 | Erm so , in principle we 've agreed that schedule , er I 'm waiting for erm Bob to sort V I out and the name erm as you may be aware erm Bob wants to call it client servicing and our view was that by and large it was n't a question of having to have loads more different screens we just needed them in different areas and they could , they 'd go to Louise to get where people were going to be and it 's mostly about the R S six thousand for commission erm on which there are only about twenty of those anyway , twenty seven so I did n't really see that as being a major issue . |
| 30 | I learned of their decision colleagues last night on television when the Chairman announced at the U D M Conference , who are not involved in this issue at all , that three thousand redundancies of management and clerical staff were going to be made . |