Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handling him was going to be a delicate business , and Nelson was more than relieved that the job would n't fall to him . |
| 2 | " 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The move caused some surprise in Whitehall , where the belief is that it would be damaging to Mr de Klerk if he were seen to be making reformist moves because of external pressure . |
| 5 | It would certainly damage the apostle 's prophecy of future judgment of the world by God if he were found to be making reference to events which were only myth and legend . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 8 | ‘ I know , I know , just when he was beginning to be a success like Perry . |
| 9 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 10 | When she and Dustin were reunited in the laundromat , he was beginning to be noticed off-Broadway and she was an established dancer . |
| 11 | He was beginning to be spoken of as a promising student who would be offered a lectureship at the end of the course . |
| 12 | Sex with Greg was improving a little , he was learning to be less selfish , to think of her pleasure . |
| 13 | Refusing to recant his doctrines as heretical , he was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Konstanz . |
| 14 | He was recognised to be highly jealous and irascible . |
| 15 | During his time at York he was invited to be the visitor of the House of the Resurrection at Mirfield in Yorkshire , the community of priests founded at the end of the last century by Charles Gore . |
| 16 | That was typical of Sam : although he was acknowledged to be one of the finest seamen in the village , he was still young , and reluctant to delegate the steering to members of his crew . |
| 17 | It was customary for boxers to box frequently , and Lynch had twenty-five contests in his twentieth year , by which time he was acknowledged to be the best ‘ wee ’ man in Glasgow . |
| 18 | If the S.M.O. was right , which he was bound to be , being a very experienced physician , then the crisis would come any time from the day after tomorrow — when I would be on nights ' off . |
| 19 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought the idea was to let the funeral go ahead , or at least make it look like it was ; he was bound to be here . |
| 21 | But he was bound to be right still about something . |
| 22 | He was bound to be , was n't he ? |
| 23 | ‘ He was bound to be punished . ’ |
| 24 | Ian Barclay , coach to the 1987 Wimbledon champion , said it was extremely unlikely Cash would play singles then , but he was aiming to be fit for the Davis Cup tie with France in February . |
| 25 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 26 | Nigel first started looking at bungee jumps in 1990 when he was asked to be an expert witness in an industrial tribunal concerning a bungee jump at a fairground . |
| 27 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 28 | While he was perceived to be concerned with the great strategic issues of war leadership , the representatives of the Party had to tackle the tedious , and often unpopular , workaday matters affecting daily life in the Heimat . |
| 29 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 30 | There was , though , a real danger that he was destined to be one of the game 's nearly men . |