Example sentences of "were [v-ing] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increase in the dividend and presumably the optimistic implication about the bank 's future earning ability or the possibility that past investment policies were proving to be injudicious ? |
| 2 | Many parents wanted to send their children to grammar schools , but these were ceasing to be available . |
| 3 | No , I had decided that whatever I washoping to do , I was going to do on my own so if anyone was going to be proud of me they were going to be proud of me for legitimate reasons . |
| 4 | Apparently Swedish cows , secure in the knowledge that they were going to be stunned by true Aryans before they were slaughtered , were happy and friendly towards man ; British cows , who might be bled to death for kosher meat , had no such guarantee and were morose and sullen as a result . |
| 5 | But such was the resistance from management , it was feared that it would become impossible to recruit top-quality personnel from the private sector if they were going to be subject to oversight from the Comptroller . |
| 6 | For God 's sake , Vi , we were going to be married . |
| 7 | It did n't bother me , I knew I was engaged to be married , and in those days as soon as you were going to be married you left your job … that is the only thing we girls had to look forward to , getting married and going on our own , getting our bottom drawer together and things like that … |
| 8 | We were going to be married — Svend and me — at least I thought we were . |
| 9 | Rostov realised that signs and shrugs were going to be inadequate . |
| 10 | AFTER a period when it looked as if airworthy examples of the type were going to be extinct in the UK , Hawker 's Sea Fury is making a comeback . |
| 11 | ‘ You said you were going to be discreet ! ’ |
| 12 | We were clear , and we were going to be rich . |
| 13 | I think as much as anything he was testing our mood on whether or not , whether we were going to be helpful or . |
| 14 | When he left he took a pile of exercise books , a scrapbook and a diary , but a first glance at their contents did not suggest that they were going to be fruitful . |
| 15 | With a brief nod and a smile that again dazzled and at the same time almost lulled her into thinking things were going to be normal between them from now on , he left . |
| 16 | And if we were going to be bored , and we were usually bored , rarely being self-motivated , we could at least be bored on our own terms , lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine . |
| 17 | They were going to be late , unless he put that thought aside and got ready . |
| 18 | She was worried because she did not know if the rules of the house permitted her to go out walking with Finn and , besides , they were going to be late for dinner . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The reparations on this were going to be cosmic . |
| 21 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |
| 22 | Scores were going to be high in the rainy , windy conditions . |
| 23 | He was always very good at keeping bits and pieces to find out whether they were going to be important or not ) . |
| 24 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 25 | ‘ You look as though you were going to be sick , ’ she said . |
| 26 | The dresses which Ben and I pored over by phone and at snatched meetings were going to be sensational . |
| 27 | Plenty of other people were going to be dead before the night was out . |
| 28 | There was no doubt about it — things were going to be tight if she decided to continue to live at Tullivers . |
| 29 | With the introduction of such a large development , obviously extensive changes were going to be likely , not only in computer terms , but also in the administration of payroll and personnel records and in the organisational requirements for the new system . |
| 30 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |