Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was still overmanning to a considerable degree by world standards . |
| 2 | This was always going to be a difficult match for Hammer to win , as they were up against a ‘ Mill side eager to take the trophy for the first time since 1974 . |
| 3 | If only because of Scotland , this was always going to be an election not only about who governs Britain , but how Britain is to be governed . |
| 4 | With the ‘ Stiffs ’ only able to field ten men , including Reg Pybus , this was always going to be a tough game . |
| 5 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 6 | Damn her own voice for shaking , but she had known this was never going to be easy . |
| 7 | This was never going to work ! |
| 8 | She still could n't quite believe that all this was actually happening to her . |
| 9 | I had managed to convince myself that , after a lifetime of teaching at university level , this was all going to be painfully easy . |
| 10 | Richards made another 88 , Greenidge and Kallicharran got fifties and 246 was clearly going to be hard for England to beat . |
| 11 | Number 47 was either talking to you or the car ; he was incapable of socializing what he felt about the Mitsubishi . |
| 12 | After we finished that poem , late in the evening of 2 November , we went walking through the streets of Salamanca for most of the night , for the poem had persuaded us that something remarkable was really happening to us , that some kind of poetic grace had been bestowed upon us . |
| 13 | The Smiths as far as I was concerned were obviously going to be massive , what-they-now-are . |
| 14 | Licence Revoked was originally going to be the title for this last Bond film , and if only they had . |
| 15 | She closed her eyes and told herself that that was simply succumbing to a whim , but why not ? |
| 16 | ‘ The alternative was putting in a bleep , and that was never going to work . |
| 17 | His war wound which had pained him earlier was now turning to agony . |
| 18 | The pattern of the 1970s and the 1980s was already beginning to be woven on the warp of America and the woof of the European continent . |