Example sentences of "going [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These kindly present-buying people will be set upon immediately by the old cake-shop lady , who will convince them that what all ‘ the young people ’ are going for are these lovely olive green PVC capes that fit nicely over a rucksack . |
| 2 | I mean , we 've been quite aware that Oxford City Council 's quite a good , always been quite a good environmental council , and erm the fact that this is going through is good news . |
| 3 | What we 're now going to is electronic fuel injection . |
| 4 | The NIAAF recognise that with the meeting coming so early in the track and field season the next few weeks are going to be hectic , with so many of Britain 's top athletes having just returned to these shores after sunshine training abroad … so the booking of Jarrett is a tremendous ‘ start ’ . |
| 5 | All of that to me smacks of a lack of appreciation of the need to understand a business thoroughly , where you 're going to be involved in making major decisions . |
| 6 | ‘ I had planned where I was going to live and what projects I was going to be involved in . ’ |
| 7 | Fears that the Cockney comic was going to be involved in a bust-up sent officers racing to the 400-year-old luxury mansion he converted into a dream lovenest for Tracie . |
| 8 | Any sociologist who is trying to identify the causes of social events and behaviour is going to be involved in making comparisons , whether by means of conducting surveys among different groups of people , or by conducting experiments with control and experimental groups , or by the comparative methods described above . |
| 9 | Right , so that 's India , so that 's good , so were , so the campaigns erm we are going to be involved in then er will be the Women 's campaign and India campaign . |
| 10 | If the EC Commission goes ahead with a planned registration scheme , the agricultural community is going to be involved in a massive numbering operation — the introduction of a sort of International Standard Cow Number . |
| 11 | They were not going to be involved in what he did . |
| 12 | Erm er , very concerned as to what it was going to lead up to up , and hoping , you know , against hope that 's you were n't going to be involved in anything like that . |
| 13 | What sort of activities are they going to be involved in during the session ? |
| 14 | I do n't need the Chief Executive to tell me what 's happening because I 'm going to be involved in seeing what 's happening and as far as the Labour people talking about the cost it 's going to create . |
| 15 | Naturally , the standards and norms likely to be developed by the police in employing a verification procedure are not going to be pure and objective scientific generalisations . |
| 16 | We just had to be or my centenary Open was going to be short-lived indeed ! |
| 17 | I have this strong fear that if I am just myself , I 'm going to be dull . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just that Uncle was a cautious old devil and — ’ he looked away ‘ — he got the impression I was a bit of a spendthrift because — well , because I used to get through my allowance pretty rapidly when I was away at school , and … oh , hell , he wanted to make sure I was going to be dull and sensible about all that money when he finally kicked the bucket . |
| 19 | If you have a good and close relationship with your mother you should be able to talk to her , but sometimes things are not even as straightforward as this , and if you are close to someone who you know is going to be upset or disappointed in you , it may be even harder to do . |
| 20 | However , if a double page spread ( DPS ) is 75 per cent more expensive than a single page , or a 40-second TV spot is 33 per cent more expensive than a 30-second spot , is the resulting ad going to be 75 per cent or 33 per cent more effective ? |
| 21 | ‘ If he was only 60 per cent today , he is going to be awesome , ’ said proud joint-owner Allen Paulson after the race . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I think I 'm going to be bored . |
| 24 | In the case of the covariance of the market with itself , it is going to be equal to the market variance where by definition ) . |
| 25 | What about if T goes on for about erm one second , when it 's going to be equal to V M one minus E to the minus one . |
| 26 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 27 | So while school or college-leavers can benefit from a relatively standardised approach , there are others whose training programme needs to be structured closely around their specific backgrounds and individual requirements , otherwise a large element of everyone 's input is going to be little more than an wasteful duplication of effort . |
| 28 | She sounded as if it was something he was going to be pleased about . |
| 29 | Did he think his chef was going to be pleased with his achievement ? |
| 30 | ‘ Am I going to be pleased with it ? ’ |