Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reparations on this were going to be cosmic . |
| 2 | This was proving to be a stroll . |
| 3 | This was proving to be a memorable morning , Maggie accepting a ‘ soft ’ assignment and being volunteered as a charmer . |
| 4 | His brother has never driven a cab before either ; this was going to be his first day . |
| 5 | Productivity had to go up and this was going to be achieved through the introduction of new capital rather than the introduction of new labour . |
| 6 | ‘ Having been so close to winning the title in the past few years I thought this was going to be my chance but the draws have just dried up and I ca n't seem to get near fish , ’ said Dave from Hednesford , Staffordshire . |
| 7 | I had a record company screaming for final mixes , not even sure that they wanted this album because ‘ Space Oddity ’ did n't do too well and as far as they were concerned this was going to be the last they had to do with David Bowie , and I was n't delivering the goods . |
| 8 | Yet all the signs were that this was going to be a fruitless exercise . |
| 9 | Suppose you knew that this was going to be the last day of your life . |
| 10 | ‘ This was going to be a celebration tonight , ’ Roirbak said , disconsolately gathering the pieces of a robot Lennon had been particularly vicious with . |
| 11 | In readiness for the event I made all the arrangements I possibly could before the baby was born to make my return to work as smooth as possible , including hiring a nanny , and I thought that this was going to be easy … |
| 12 | It was happening in the summer and autumn of that year , and having now established who he was , people in the movie business were asking if this was going to be his big break , while out there in the communes and on the streets , the rebels were electing him and Hopper , and , to a lesser degree , Fonda , their champions . |
| 13 | Somehow he had known what the outcome of all this was going to be . |
| 14 | This was going to be twenty years hard . |
| 15 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 16 | When Benito Mussolini ( 1883–1945 ) invented fascism in the 1920s ( literally national socialism ) , it was not quite clear whether this was going to be a force to use against Sovietism or a collectivist evil in its own right . |
| 17 | This was going to be like opening a can . |
| 18 | As we drove to Alec Reid 's house for our first dinner together — and the first sight of his house — I said , ‘ You know , Alec , I thought this was going to be a simple unsophisticated life on the next best thing to a coral atoll . |
| 19 | This was going to be a meal to remember ! |
| 20 | She swore to herself that this was going to be the last child . |
| 21 | This was going to be a sore one , she reflected . |
| 22 | We did n't realise how difficult this was going to be . |
| 23 | And as soon as I cradled the mass in my arms the conviction flooded through me that this was going to be the same as all the others . |
| 24 | He wondered if his outlook would change , or if this was going to be the pattern of it for the future . |
| 25 | This was going to be awkward , without a doubt . |
| 26 | Undecided , she had wondered if it might be too formal , but now she realised that this was going to be no jeans-and-sweater occasion . |
| 27 | Grieving father Wally yesterday said : ‘ This was going to be Craig 's last race because he could n't afford to carry on . |
| 28 | This was going to be a doddle . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , Havvie , ’ Sally-Anne murmured ; this was going to be even harder than she had thought — and she had said nothing to her uncle Orrin — she could not , not until her engagement was irrevocably over . |
| 30 | This was going to be very tricky . |