Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean is it going to be a case that market values are actually going to work to our advantage ? |
| 2 | and she said er , and I said , I said Dave said you were a bloody fool to go up there , you let mother talk you into going , Terry had a job here , he , alright you had your house , you had your ups and downs , it was a bit small , you persevere with it , I said your kids are nearly going to school all of them , so I said , you do n't need a big house |
| 3 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 4 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 5 | The wind was now gusting to Force 11 and visibility still poor . |
| 6 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 7 | In the heart of the City , one of the most adventurous projects in many decades is now coming to completion . |
| 8 | An average of 75% of leavers was now proceeding to University . |
| 9 | Suzi was never going to backpack round the world or become a rock star , and if she had been forced to go and live away from home — to study nursing , for instance — she 'd have mouldered away from homesickness . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , in the potion laboratory , Mildred was desperately trying to overbalance the jar by climbing up the side and leaning on it . |
| 11 | The teeming slums of Kampala are now coming to life . |
| 12 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 13 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 14 | The level of undiscovered malpractice is a matter for conjecture although such evidence is continually coming to light , as illustrated in the manner in which leading drug/pesticide/herbicide companies callously exploit the Third World . |
| 15 | ‘ And unless you 're going to allow it to be your husband — to let him be boss , in fact — your relationship is never going to work . |
| 16 | Thornton Swish is now offering to double-glaze the seven windows and french doors at the house in Chester-le-Street , County Durham , for £3,900 . |
| 17 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 18 | The remainder of these unfortunates were already contributing to family incomes as labourers , shop boys , glovers , house-servants , rag collectors and so on . |
| 19 | The exchange rate policy was highly damaging to manufacturing . |
| 20 | Alternatively , if a firm made its issue thinking share prices were indeed going to rocket ( for that is what the low yields implied ) , then it could be worth its while to take the cash and invest it back into equities or other financial instruments . |
| 21 | Desmond Dekker is still playing to capacity crowds and you will recognise his unique sound on three national TV campaigns . |
| 22 | One word of warning : do n't assume that your surprise attack is always going to work , otherwise you might get a nasty surprise yourself . |
| 23 | The Government is ostensibly looking to Parliament to confer not just statutory enactment of what it negotiated at Maastricht , but moral and political assent . |
| 24 | The police are increasingly looking to technology — and to information technology in particular — to help them combat increasing crime . |
| 25 | ‘ My knee is never going to work the way it should , Seb , but the muscles of my leg are working much better , have you noticed ? |
| 26 | Heathrow is actually going to sort of lose ground in competition with other international airports and particularly within Europe . |
| 27 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 28 | Whelan showed considerable grace and skill up front but the strategy of putting high balls into the West Ham box was never going to work with their defensive blanket , and a highly competent goalie . |
| 29 | At first the case failed because there was no category of clergy malpractice , but a Judge was found who soon put that right and the case is now proceeding to trial . |
| 30 | RIGHT now , thoughts are inevitably turning to home heating , and the Coal Advisory Service says for the majority of homes in the province , that means solid fuel |