Example sentences of "[v-ing] to be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It enables both countries to augment their own dominant positions within the Community while pretending to be acting for the sake of ‘ Europe ’ . |
| 2 | I hovered over the sideboard pretending to be looking for cutlery and strained my ears to catch the conversation . |
| 3 | How long are you going to be gone for ? ’ |
| 4 | is it a contentious issue erm ho how is the criticized , very very short , because you are only going to be writing for about a page , a page and a half , right , so just make sure that every sentence or every other sentence carries a new bit of information and then people say , good , this person knows everything about this subject , full marks and you and er but it 's all too easy to , to focus on one or two aspects of say a question on trade or er er Harrison Todaro model of migration . |
| 5 | ‘ He was told in writing that he was only going to be narrating for five minutes of the video , which is not what happened . |
| 6 | Visiting drivers to , after a few hours on the motorway , are hardly going to be looking for a zebra crossing on such a busy dual carriageway . |
| 7 | It is particularly important for covering fruit cakes and cakes with an uneven surface , as it provides a smooth area for the icing and prevents discoloration of the icing by the cake if it is going to be kept for some time . |
| 8 | Excuse me I 've got not exactly hay-fever but I think I 'm going to be sneezing for a few minutes . |
| 9 | Winston Churchill , MP for Davyhulme , a leading Tory rebel , said : ‘ The report is that the White Paper says that 13 pits are going to be saved for two years and then have the chop . |
| 10 | ‘ The responses to the Manifesto will form the background against which our strategy is going to be planned for subsequent years . |
| 11 | The story was so mad that your brother was being told to shoot Martin Meehan and that I was going to be interned for doing nothing . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We were told that it was going to be arranged for Barry to sing ‘ The White Cliffs of Dover ’ with Mrs Thatcher at the end of the show . |
| 13 | It was a press release following the Chief Environmental Health Officer preempting a report that was being made to the council going to be implemented for the use of the Environmental Protection Act , and goes on to list them in indented form . |
| 14 | The other letter informed the victim that he was going to be prosecuted for overloading his builder 's van , he was in fact prosecuted and fined . |
| 15 | Corners can be cut on flowers and remember , the flowers at the reception are going to be seen for a longer time than those in the church . |
| 16 | Well the flowering house plants , we hope you 're going to be given for Christmas , things like cyclamen and indoor azaleas and also your indoor bowls of course will last much longer if you give them the coolest , lightest position you can . |
| 17 | And what I was going to be getting for myself at some stage cos I 'd like to do the rest of the curtains myself . |
| 18 | If you do that , we are going to fill the stadiums every time , the receipts are going to be there to channel back into developing the game and the profiles of the players are going to be lifted for commercial opportunities . |
| 19 | No tears were going to be shed for him . |
| 20 | If you 're going to be asking for a |
| 21 | What about local businesses , are they going to be getting involved , are you going to be asking for involvement from local businesses ? |
| 22 | I think w w what I 'd urge the panel to consider is is perhaps looking at it from that perspective , to encourage the County Council to review the phasing provision of policy H one erm in terms of er how the the committed land is going to be released for development . |
| 23 | And I was very worried because the lady that was going to be paying for the job was just down there and if we were n't careful we were going to kill her with the wardrobe . |
| 24 | When Mrs Broadly is stretchered out of the Coffee Shop in an oxygen mask , for example , we all know Dr Beverley Marshal is going to be sued for malpractice — such is the power of consummate technique . |
| 25 | How 's it going to be paid for ? |
| 26 | Owing to the perfect weather the tables were all taken outside and detector users sunbathed on the grass , whilst checking their tokens to see if their number was going to be chosen for a major prize . |
| 27 | Who 's going to be playing for Chelsea ? — a northern Ireland international . |
| 28 | Okay , what about the Oxford pair Jim Magilton and Paul Kee , are they going to be playing for Northern Ireland ? |
| 29 | Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too . |
| 30 | It is necessary to bring the wood to a moisture content which is nearly at equilibrium with the environment in which the timber is going to be used for if this is not done one must expect warping and shrinkage . |