Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am intending to build a third pond , with dimensions 20′ × 6′ × 2′6″ . |
| 2 | Well as usual we could n't remember the last time you came , I was trying to think the last time |
| 3 | I wondered if I was expected to buy the next round as well . |
| 4 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 5 | Everything below , we were sure , was exactly as it would have appeared in centuries past-apart from one major anachronism , a bright yellow construction crane , which was attempting to plant the last monolith in the stone circle . |
| 6 | Abruptly , all she wanted was to escape , escape that pitying , patronising gleam in his eyes , escape the mounting tension which was threatening to annihilate the last , precarious shreds of her self-control . |
| 7 | Whether you are starting to decorate a first home , have just moved into a new place or are redecorating an existing room , the problem is often much the same : not so much how to arrange things as how to fill up big blank walls and table or shelf surfaces when you do n't seem to have very much to use and certainly very little to spend . |
| 8 | You 're going to take the second right , just after that pub . ’ |
| 9 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 10 | A teenager who 's aiming to become the next Paul Daniels has joined the world 's most exclusive group of magicians . |
| 11 | Joanne Conway , who is hoping to become the first woman for more than 20 years to win five successive titles , made a strong start at the Skate Electic British championships in Basingstoke . |
| 12 | Ruth drank thirstily because it was her first priority and because she was going to enjoy the next delicious moment and wanted to savour the expectancy of it . |
| 13 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 14 | She was damned if she was going to make the first conciliatory move ; it would blunt the point of all she had done in Waterford . |
| 15 | She had far more important things to think about , like how she was going to survive the next four weeks alone with a man whose quiet voice and manner hid a ruthlessness and determination that made steel look limp by comparison . |
| 16 | She was planning to go the next day . |
| 17 | We are beginning to plan the next stage of development with a target of 6500 campus-based students by the year 2000 . |
| 18 | If we are to begin to consider the second part of this question seriously we need to be able to specify what are the ‘ relevant facts of the context of utterance ’ . |
| 19 | THIS IS the day for signing in and checking out fellow schmoozers ; for ploughing through the completely bewildering gig schedule , and trying to work out just how we 're going to survive the next 100 hours without losing any important internal organs . |
| 20 | This seemed to be further corroborated when we were invited to join the second phase of a research project being undertaken by the National Foundation for Educational Research and the Further Education Unit . |
| 21 | We were sentenced to hang the next morning at the gallows of Montfaucon . |
| 22 | Originally we were planning to reward the first ten correct answers drawn out of the bag with a wonderful Sigma-Ray joystick , but unfortunately Markie ( feeble minded fool that he is ) mistook them for his laundry and took them home to be washed by his Mum . |
| 23 | We were going to use a four-second snatch of The Hokey-Cokey , and were quoted £3,000 . |
| 24 | Copies of Figure 11.3 are given to the sender and receivers and they are asked to repeat the first exercise using Figure 11.4 as the data to be transmitted . |
| 25 | If it had not , they were asked to ignore the next set of questions . |
| 26 | He had supported Pennethorne 's design because it was the cheapest and did not encroach on the park , but if they abandoned that design they were bound to take the first prize design , ‘ but as there was some difficulty about that ’ , it should go to the second prize-winners . |
| 27 | In 1908 they were amalgamated to form The 4th Battalion ( TF ) . |
| 28 | It is intended to fund a second phase of the programme in late 1986 . |
| 29 | Once this has been done , it is hoped to set a second study in motion to consider the possibility of using expert systems to guide the personnel who do the actual licensing through the maze of rules and regulations that they have to consider . |
| 30 | It is planned to run a second certificate level course during weeks commencing 29 March and 26 April . |