Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In this way boys and girls would get ample opportunity of guidance as to their choice of careers , and those who were going to be apprenticed or learn skilled trades might have all their arrangements made while still at school . ’ |
| 2 | There was a report in the paper about the coronation and the unveiling of the memorial to Queen Victoria two days before the coronation , and about the many crowned heads of Europe who were going to be present , including the German Emperor , the late Queen 's grandson . |
| 3 | These careful excavations were followed up by archaeologists , who were ceasing to be treasure-hunters , just as geologists had ceased to be fossil-hunters ; both were now concerned with dating and provenance , and the reconstruction of past epochs . |
| 4 | Now , Fiona was thought to be a suitable bride for my father-just the right age , pretty and vivacious enough it was thought to appeal to a man who was beginning to be known as a confirmed bachelor . ’ |
| 5 | I was talking to a man with a stammer who was training to be an estate agent when Gillian was brought across by the organiser . |
| 6 | ‘ There was somebody else there — somebody who was pretending to be ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 7 | I forgot to say that the guerrilla who was pretending to be a madman had let Sis . |
| 8 | Like Viola in ‘ Twelfth Night ’ , Rosalind was played by a boy , who was pretending to be a girl , who was disguised as a boy … |
| 9 | There was a surrealist episode involved a gnarled coach , an attractive young woman who was trying to be a hooker ( rugby variety ) and a small boy who wanted to be a scrum-half . |
| 10 | He sounded like a man who was trying to be brave after his marriage had just fallen apart . |
| 11 | A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather . |
| 12 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 13 | He ca n't have put it there for effect because he did n't know who was going to be there . |
| 14 | ‘ For 25 minutes it was difficult to see who was going to be exhausted first , ’ said David , 36 , Caithness SAA secretary . |
| 15 | When he visited Lewis at Magdalen ( Barfield was now working as a solicitor in London ) , the two friends often reverted to their ‘ Great War ’ and there was no doubt , any longer , who was going to be the victor . |
| 16 | Later , Jane saved Titch , a black and white kitten who was going to be put down . |
| 17 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 18 | But here was Mick telling him something , he was talking about a young girl , not a little girl , a young girl who was going to be a secretary . |
| 19 | When I was very young — about 5 years old — I wanted to be a pilot because I had this girlfriend who was going to be a stewardess . |
| 20 | In a recent large UK search the company in question called on five of the major search firms , and invited them all in to make a competitive pitch to decide who was going to be successful at finding them a group chief executive . |
| 21 | He asked after Fred 's new play and she ran on with unconvincing enthusiasm about a young actress who was going to be in it . |
| 22 | In a moment of horror , the shop assistant saw him , unforgettably : a little boy , wearing a badly-made blazer , who was going to be run over and killed . |
| 23 | Er Deborah did a sheet with everybody on , who was going to be appraising who . |
| 24 | For a moment , she found herself wondering who was going to be the lucky recipient of those devastatingly good looks . |
| 25 | ‘ When I started out I met a kid who was going to be a detective . |
| 26 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 27 | What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need . |
| 28 | Here is a boy who was waiting to be punished . |