Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH their very predictable choice of players , particularly the number of England players , the Lions are going to find it tough in New Zealand . |
| 2 | Britain was the first country to impose fines on airlines which bring passengers without proper immigration papers ; other European states are beginning to copy it . |
| 3 | ‘ A lot of clubs are looking to knock us off our perch , ’ he said . |
| 4 | What will be on their mind is first of all the Prison Authorities are going to isolate them , they 're going to be in solitary confinement for a very long time — six months , maybe a year , that 's been the pattern — they 're going to lose a lot of remission , but they also know they 're going to face criminal charges . |
| 5 | The following diagram should illustrate through a simplified example : Inhabitants of Caloria Inhabitants of Frigorix Good at fishing Grow crops Reliant on fossil fuels Use solar power for all machinery When they get to the new planet , Terra Nova , they find that the fish are abundant , but the soil wo n't support crops ; although the sun shines , there are no fossil fuels — so if the groups are going to survive they will need to share their technology and skills . |
| 6 | As with so many economic megabooks , British readers are going to find it heavily skewed towards the US , which is particularly galling when it comes to the advice preparing for the slump . |
| 7 | If journalists are going to like you , they will make their minds up quickly and it is a positive advantage if they like what they hear , but have n't got enough . |
| 8 | The notebooks are beginning to pull him into shape with their ‘ NB . |
| 9 | They say things like David 's sexy legs are going to stop them passing their Chemistry ‘ A ’ Level , ’ she says . |
| 10 | Not only do they not remember the actions and funny voices , but , when asked if they even knew who Rudyard Kipling was , Max said : ‘ Of course we do , Mom — the Iranians are trying to assassinate him . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have to tell you , you do n't know our present subject very well , if you think all the Gothic fripperies are going to impress her . |
| 12 | The owners of a nursing home which was closed by health inspectors are planning to turn it into a guest house . |
| 13 | Patscentre made Yes-Man after it decided that robots were getting too complicated : manufacturers were trying to make them both cognitive and manipulative . |
| 14 | The clergy were going to make it impossible to find the young priest 's murderer . |
| 15 | In Iran Roosevelt noted , that the economic blockade was losing Mossadeq his support , both among the mullahs and among the merchants in the bazaar , Indeed , his erratic and increasingly dogmatic responses to the crisis meant that even some of his own National Front supporters were defecting form him . |
| 16 | Stray whispers in a hundred distant-cousin tongues twittered through the ship , as if voices were trying to inform him of his fate , the ghost echoes from a million previous passengers , ten million down the centuries that this ship had been in service . |
| 17 | Put together , it appeared the brothers were going to harm you . ’ |
| 18 | There will be headlines — and I do n't think your parents are going to like them much . ’ |
| 19 | For one thing I I do n't think that the next generation of parents are going to stand it because with the , cos I told you what , what I said Neil about erm when er when he was a father I said if you had a pretty fifteen year old daughter would you want to have some rough oaf taking her down a back alley and screwing her ? |
| 20 | My parents are coming to visit me — ’ |
| 21 | What , on the basis that if the P A is n't there the areas are going to do it themselves . |
| 22 | I 'M ASHAMED that Britain deported 36 Yugoslavs last month while other countries are trying to give them shelter . |
| 23 | I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Esher ( Mr. Taylor ) that other countries are offering to help us to use their sovereignty in a way that will benefit us in the future . |
| 24 | The country dwellers are saying leave us alone to run our own lives , after all when it comes to funding they are left to run their own lives anyway . |
| 25 | The Conservatives are trying to stop it . |
| 26 | It was two days before medical staff found out what his distraught parents were trying to tell them — that he had swallowed the contents of a tin of paint . |
| 27 | A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure . |
| 28 | In a small adjoining room next door a group of women who act as counsellors and administrators were waiting to meet her . |
| 29 | Such a capture of French nationalism would probably have been impossible in Paris ; but , in Hanoi , circumstances were combining to make it a reality . |
| 30 | She was grateful for the air-conditioning , because she was quite well aware that her unruly emotions were going to make it difficult for her to sleep . |