Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 2 | Recent introductions from America such as N. Charlene Strawn and N. Texas Dawn are proving to be promising and therefore becoming popular . |
| 3 | Open years are proving to be open wounds for Lloyd 's . |
| 4 | Barnes , 30 , added : ‘ I knew fairly soon that I was out of the Test match and now I am struggling to be fit for the Taranaki game on Wednesday . |
| 5 | It is , in fact , the case that the men are pretending to be prepared to operate the accident and emergency service . |
| 6 | ‘ Well if you 're going to be absent when I need you , you must cease taking walks ! ’ |
| 7 | I mean , would you assume Jeremy we 're going to be Corpusized ? |
| 8 | Look , do n't hold out too much hope that you 're going to be successful in this . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd better get on with it if you 're going to be nasty , had n't we ? |
| 10 | But I mean I , if they want to be nasty they 're going to be nasty , in a sense , and , and if they ca n't see a positive way of using something , but they still want to get it in , then the obvious thing to do is to be nasty about it . |
| 11 | You 're going to be disappointed though . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm afraid you 're going to be disappointed , Robyn . |
| 13 | And and er obviously if you 're going to be European properly there has to be a full cooperation in many of the aspects of life How would you answer the these bogey this bogeyman tactic of loss of sovereignty , ? |
| 14 | All of that to me smacks of a lack of appreciation of the need to understand a business thoroughly , where you 're going to be involved in making major decisions . |
| 15 | ‘ If you 're going to be annoying I 'll just stay here . ’ |
| 16 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 17 | ‘ No , we 're going to be modern lovers , Maria , our respective careers the primary reason for a certain unavoidable number of solitary nights . |
| 18 | He says it 's going to get bigger and bigger and alot of our pasture land is going to be cannabis plantations and they 're going to be legal ones because they 've been granted licences to possess and grow it . |
| 19 | you 're talking also about extending the car park at the pub , just down the road , so you 're going to be increasing traffic into that pub . |
| 20 | All , all I 'm saying is that we need to , before we literally start dotting I 's and crossing T's in any literal sense is to sussed out whether that 's gon na , whether they 're going to be receptive to the subject matter . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're going to be good ? ’ said Lord Henry . |
| 22 | ‘ I can assure you I 've never had the misfortune to meet your criminally motivated friend , but might I suggest that if you 're going to be paranoid about your picture you put it in a bank vault for safety ? ’ |
| 23 | It looks as though they 're going to be regular visitors here . ’ |
| 24 | I do rather resent it when there are other council committees , there 's Town Hall Strategy Working Party in the afternoon , now if we 're going to be sure that we can all get to this without conflict with other committees , erm I had to be there on behalf of the Lord Mayor because she had duties , erm and I was very sorry not to be able to come , because I have dealt , visited many occupational , I wanted to visit the officers , and you know , it is n't always possible where you have a conflict of interests . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're going to be hot in that fur , Therese , ’ she murmured . |
| 26 | That 's where you 're going to be married . " |
| 27 | Come on , Suzie , we 're going to be late for breakfast and the tea will be cold . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ God said to me , ‘ Richie , you 're going to be late for your contest , it 's on now ’ ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're going to be late ! ’ |
| 30 | Come on now , we 're going to be late , the others are all in there , I could hear the revelry as I came through the hall . " |