Example sentences of "was [adv] go [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If penicillin was going to be tried in man , how on earth was enough going to be made ? |
| 2 | I had managed to convince myself that , after a lifetime of teaching at university level , this was all going to be painfully easy . |
| 3 | The warning note that it was all going to be very different this time was sounded right at the beginning , with the efforts to establish a minority government . |
| 4 | It was all going to be secret . |
| 5 | I thought it was all going to be all right . |
| 6 | Hungry and cold would have to wait until I could go back to the cafe , dirty was obviously going to be more of a problem . |
| 7 | The record only reached number twenty-five but the audience about to be touched was obviously going to be huge . |
| 8 | It was not that he was obviously going to be a good priest . |
| 9 | He was obviously going to be a Sheik in his own right , and it would seem that he knew it . |
| 10 | It had certainly been built to last , and although we could see it had lost a lot of windows and the stonework was damaged , it was obviously going to be standing there a few more years yet . |
| 11 | She gave him a hunted look and began to burrow in its depths to extract what was obviously going to be his present . |
| 12 | As her brother Charles says : ‘ Suddenly the insignificant ugly duckling was obviously going to be a swan . ’ |
| 13 | This film was obviously going to be yet another stage in Preston 's own decline and fall as a BBC producer . |
| 14 | ‘ He was told in writing that he was only going to be narrating for five minutes of the video , which is not what happened . |
| 15 | He 'd decided that if Pilger was only going to be there one day a week he could share an office with Hayling . |
| 16 | ‘ He said he was only going to be a few minutes . |
| 17 | Yeah that 's the numbers linked to the division , erm Cynthia I mean I was only going to be looking at N Y C C and C S S S funded staff , yeah ? |
| 18 | ‘ No , it was only going to be me and Mozart . |
| 19 | But then it was only going to be for a matter of weeks , so what did it matter anyway ? |
| 20 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |
| 21 | The child was soon going to be taller than she was . |
| 22 | Although the ceremony itself was a simple one — a private exchange of shared intentions in which the most important formal element was the document which laid down precisely who got what in the case of divorce — it was nevertheless going to be used by both sets of parents as an excuse to throw a party , during which they would vie with each other in largesse , showing off their wealth as well as arranging useful introductions for their unmarried children . |
| 23 | There was just going to be one big thud when I hit the deck and then all would be over — my arm would stop hurting and no more 109s could make dirty passes at me behind my back . |
| 24 | She was just going to be rather tedious from now on . |
| 25 | and I would have thought it was absolutely great , you know , he really , I would have though had a stimulating , challenging lovely environment to , to , to be in , I , I , I , I , I hoped that if he was going , I thought he was going to go on , it was just going to be very expensive tt paying his fees , his this |
| 26 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 27 | He was not single-minded in the manner preferred by academe ; scholarship per se was not going to be his métier . |
| 28 | The raiding of Wimbledon , Lendl explained , was not going to be a suicide mission : ‘ Against some players you feel more confident moving to the net than against others . |
| 29 | I had a very deep feeling that the attack on the village by the Black Watch was not going to be successful due to the fact that the enemy were well dug in and were determined to hold on to this position . |
| 30 | He knew that he was not going to be happy if he were deprived of the chance to study . |