Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [to-vb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rockwell wrote to his brother : ‘ Prince and I are going to fly ten hours tomorrow , and we 'll do our best to kill one or two Germans for Victor . ’
2 I AM trying to trace two relatives the sisters Dolly Tasker ( formerly of Myrtle Gardens , Liverpool 7 ) , and Margaret Coppick ( of Wavertree ? ) .
3 This month I am going to cover two problems which most horses will produce at some time or other .
4 I 'm trying to do eight things at once as usual .
5 I 'm trying to find three rooms on the same floor . ’
6 Gianluigi 's away and if that woman thinks I 'm going to wait one second longer … ’
7 And if you think I 'm going to spend four months on a health farm trying to turn my body into something it never was and never will be , forget it .
8 So I 'm going to use three things to , to see how I 'm doing both in planning and actual .
9 And I 'm going to put two pieces of garden cane in .
10 You , you could say , I 'm going to do all four walls together or I 'm going to do one wall at a time .
11 Er if I 'm going to give two weeks after anyway for the Councils , I do n't really think it makes a great deal of difference whether it be Friday er afternoon or Monday afternoon .
12 I 'm going to get two sheets of paper and two pencils .
13 No I know , I 'm going to make two glasses out of it
14 I 'm damned if I 'm going to have one lung ! ’
15 Well I 'm going to I 'm going to have two things .
16 Erm someone 's going to heat one end and then hold the other end .
17 I was invited to chair one session last week .
18 When I had finished , I was made to wait two hours before being called back into the office for questioning .
19 I was asked to take two horses from Ireland and this was one of them .
20 As for the television programme , I was asked to appear 36 hours in advance , having been sent the large number of documents .
21 I was told to sign three cards and then they just dumped this bag on the counter , and I could see the rope inside .
22 ‘ You must need your head tested ’ , was one of the more polite reactions when I said that I was going to spend two weeks holiday walking some 120 miles up-and-down mountains rather than lying in the sun .
23 Trade & Travel kindly gave me a fez ‘ for my daughter ’ , which resulted in a complaint from one colleague that if I was going to invent one offspring why not a few more so that all the staff could have fezzes .
24 He wrote to his friend R.S. Dods in Australia , ‘ … it looks so reasonable , so kindly , so perfectly beautiful , that you feel that people might have been making love , and living and dying there and dear little children running about for — the last - I was going to say 1,000 years — anyway , 600 .
25 I had to race to keep up the momentum but I was forced to rest five minutes in every twenty .
26 I was allowed to do one concert after being kept waiting most of the day by the Russians .
27 The relocation will be in three phases , each of which is planned to take eighteen months .
28 This practice has coincided with the development of the cow disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE or ‘ mad cow disease ’ ) which is believed to affect one cow in every thousand .
29 The major locus , which is assumed to have two alleles — A and A' producing three genotypes AA , AA' , A'A' — is defined by three parameters : q , the frequency of the major gene A' ; t , the displacement — that is , the distance measured in standard deviations on the liability scale between the two homozygous genotype class means ; and d , the degree of dominance , expressed as the position of the heterozygous class mean in relation to the homozygous class mean ( d=0 corresponds to a recessive gene , d=1 to a dominant gene , and d=0.5 to an additive gene ) .
30 Before the already previewed 100MHz , mid-range Model 735 , which is reckoned to do 150 SPECmarks , 81 SPECint92 and 150 SPECfp92 ( UX No 407 ) , there is thought to be another 50MHz machine , possibly the 725/50 , which could be reached from the existing Model 720 via a board swap .
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