Example sentences of "was [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you was goin' to be a famous pilot this mornin' , ’ retorted George . |
| 2 | Originally titled ‘ The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion Featuring A Choice Collection Of Tomes , Songs , Odes And Anthems From The Most Eminent Authors In The United States ’ , this is the record that was struggling to be heard inside the more studio-constricted ‘ Money Maker ’ . |
| 3 | His colour sense was demanding to be heard and utilised . |
| 4 | In every way , the submarine cable was proving to be ‘ … one of the great technical adventures of the 19th century , something akin to exploration of space today ’ .9 |
| 5 | Elsewhere , however , Britain 's imitation of Hollywood was proving to be built on ground more insecure than the area around the San Andreas fault . |
| 6 | The lanky Ormondroyd was proving to be a nuisance and when he chested the ball down to Thompson he was unlucky to see his shot flash wide . |
| 7 | It was proving to be an ideal choice of holiday with a programme of free activities that gave us an easy opportunity to make friends with the guests form other nations who gave the Club such a cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 8 | John was proving to be a good friend as well as brother-in-law . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the Church of England was proving to be a nuisance to the government . |
| 10 | This was proving to be a stroll . |
| 11 | Today was proving to be full of revelations , major and minor , and I sipped my champagne to cover my embarrassment . |
| 12 | Unemployment was proving to be an intractable problem ; the successful Russian Revolution was not long passed , and although the police were controlling mass demonstrations of the unemployed , using violence on occasion , they too had gone on strike in August 1918 . |
| 13 | Ed King was busily erecting the cage we 'd had in Covent Garden ; it was proving to be worth every penny of the £250 we 'd paid for it . |
| 14 | The cap had a childproof seal , and it was proving to be pretty Lucasproof as well . |
| 15 | This was proving to be a memorable morning , Maggie accepting a ‘ soft ’ assignment and being volunteered as a charmer . |
| 16 | Why , almost right from the start she 'd known she was playing with fire , and the rest of the cliché was proving to be disastrously right . |
| 17 | Shortly after Gould 's publication of this information , Darwin moved to London to be closer to what was proving to be a hotbed of scientific activity . |
| 18 | Clearly this bare volcanic archipelago was proving to be , as Darwin later described it , ‘ a little world within itself . ’ |
| 19 | This conversation was proving to be unbearably painful . |
| 20 | Mercifully the Long Island Expressway , which Mrs Meadows had warned them might well be one long traffic jam , was proving to be relatively uncrowded . |
| 21 | This discussion was proving to be a disaster . |
| 22 | The Lord Coroner was proving to be as difficult a problem as the dreadful deaths they were investigating . |
| 23 | He concealed his boredom through the first act , but by intermission he was itching to be away to claim his prize . |
| 24 | He felt Willi was wanting to be reassured but he was just too tired and ill to bother . |
| 25 | She was fed up , she was hungry , and now she would have to confront a horde of troublesome workmen lounging about the house , banging nails , screwing screws and making ribald comments when what she had thought she was escaping to was a slice of peace and solitude . |
| 26 | To Orcs and Goblins size is power and by any reckoning Grom was looking to be very powerful indeed . |
| 27 | British companies were , generally speaking , increasing in size through mergers and consolidation , so the stakes were that much higher and they could not afford to get things wrong ; they needed new management teams to run taken-over businesses ; industrial plants were growing in scale ; finance was becoming more complex ; business was tending to be more and more international ; American operations were penetrating many European markets ; and Britain was facing a host of unprecedented economic pressures and new competition with the post-war recovery of Germany and Japan . |
| 28 | He was training to be a teacher when the Khmer Rouge took over . |
| 29 | He explained that he was training to be a teacher in Bechar , a large town a little north of where I had begun walking . |
| 30 | Louise was what was known as an ‘ exchange student ’ ; at home in Nîmes she was training to be an English teacher and she was doing a year 's exchange as part of her course , teaching French conversation at the local grammar school . |