Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Thomas is a witty writer , and I 'm sure his data-gathering has been impeccable , but somehow I just know the water around him is going to be thick with dorsal fins in February . |
| 2 | Handling him was going to be a delicate business , and Nelson was more than relieved that the job would n't fall to him . |
| 3 | " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate . |
| 4 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 5 | But now , the soft clicks coming with typical irregularity , he listened to them painfully and let his mind slide back ten years to what he must remember , to the truth he must recall if he were going to be able to tell lies . |
| 6 | Now he is hoping to be picked for the match against Spain in the Canary Islands to give his career a real boost . |
| 7 | Essentially , there is no real answer to this question because , in most cases of fraud , the transferor actually believes that the transferee is the person he is pretending to be . |
| 8 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |
| 9 | He said the championships were his last event ; he was quitting swimming to concentrate on bodybuilding and his studies at Houghall Agricultural College , Durham , where he is training to be a shepherd . |
| 10 | Certainly this limpidity is not within Eliot 's reach even when he is trying to be limpid , as in ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ; , and of course the experience of a simple person enduring a commonplace and unavoidable sorrow — is such as Eliot could never manage , early or late . |
| 11 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 12 | Now , with the new movie under his belt , he is proving to be a worthy successor to his father in the business . |
| 13 | I missed his semi-erect dick , because I was furiously scribbling down detailed descriptions of his buttocks , but only a severely learning-impaired person would consider the character he is playing to be representative of normality . |
| 14 | He imagines he is going to be arrested and whisked off to Siberia . |
| 15 | ‘ If he was only 60 per cent today , he is going to be awesome , ’ said proud joint-owner Allen Paulson after the race . |
| 16 | That Kevin is certainly growing into a fine young man , he has been working with his shirt off in this weather and you can see he is going to be just as much an athlete as his father was . |
| 17 | All this will build up muscle , but not the right muscle for the work he is going to be asked to do . |
| 18 | They range from the lone back-packer who stuffs a volume of Descartes into the pocket of her shorts and forgets to take spare socks , to the package holiday-maker who packs a change of silk shirt for every evening he is going to be away . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 20 | HE IS going to be held up by his technique because he reverse-pivots with a mega-weak grip . |
| 21 | The hero was being filmed taking his 10-month-old baby to the pool when he gets the first indication he is going to be threatened . |
| 22 | Each new teacher is put through a period of what we can call social apprenticeship by the pupils in order to ascertain what sort of person and disciplinarian ( s ) he is going to be . |
| 23 | No matter how cleverly the flyweight boxes he is going to be stuffed . |
| 24 | He thinks he is going to be sick . |
| 25 | I have never forgotten that I came home to my wife and said : ‘ There 's a young man working with us and I 'm sure he is going to be a big star . ’ |
| 26 | Tony is er Professor of Economics at Cambridge and is a world renowned luminary in economic circles and er he 's , he 's here for the next week as a special professor and er is giving a number of lectures er most of which are open to , to all , to all students and he is a very famous economist , very clever chap you know if you can get to see him I , I 'd reco I 'd recommend it erm presuma there may be a sort of programme of his visit stuck up on the student notice boards erm , if there is n't er he 's giving a , a lecture tomorrow two o'clock in B seventy four and that 's , that 's if , he is going to be talking to the M A students er taking Economic Development and Policy Analysis and his topic there is comparing income inequality and poverty in Europe erm so if you , you know , if you are free tomorrow at two it just might be interesting to go along to , feel free to go to B seventy four tomorrow at two o'clock . |
| 27 | He is going to do that , so he was going to have a hand in that he 's gon not really not going to have a hand in it , he is going to be directly responsible for selecting the panel which will select the independent members on the short list and recommend them to him . |
| 28 | Erm the only way he is going to be able to do that is when his dead . |
| 29 | ‘ For the next few days he is going to be a bit sore . |
| 30 | If an accused person hears that he is going to be sentenced to one year in jail , it is argued that it would be distinctly unfair for a prosecutor to appeal . |