Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He might be only pretending to be gaga , ’ said Pooley . |
| 2 | It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go . |
| 3 | ‘ There is obviously going to be displacement of people as specialist sites are concentrated , ’ says Ms Brown , adding that it would be necessary to ensure that the right amount of nursing support and training is available as the displacement of nurses takes place . |
| 4 | There are so many combinations of what to have , what to get , what we ca n't get , what we need really I think is , what we need is obviously going to be priority is n't it ? |
| 5 | Really , it should , if there 's the accountant there who 's ever going to be treasurer next year should go . |
| 6 | City tried hard to get back into it but their task was always going to be maintenance , although Paul Hackett struck a good goal in a move involving several players , to reduce the area on seventy four minutes . |
| 7 | ‘ When you 're men and women living together in close quarters like that there is always going to be temptation . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When you 're men and women living together in close quarters like that there is always going to be temptation . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The next date , of course , was always going to be trouble . |
| 10 | But I ca n't say stop the violence , because there 's always going to be violence . |
| 11 | From then on , she trips and twirls like a prima donna at an infant ballet class , gurgles and squeaks to the point of practically begging to be mercy killed , and generally flaunts a dodgy child sexuality that is neither funny nor subversive , but is stupid and dangerous . |
| 12 | Looking at the time-reversal paradoxes again , we see that what they are really referring to is information , rather than particles . |
| 13 | The history of pet names is a long one , there appearing to be evidence confirming their existence before the Conquest , but in those instances where pet names survive as surnames the appearance is that they are of post-Conquest foundation , and some are difficult to identify . |
| 14 | Moving children away from their families 45 minutes down the road … there 's undoubtedly going to be danger . |
| 15 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |
| 16 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 17 | I mean I think at the end of the day because we 're w going to have to basically in a sense your job I think even though at the moment you 're saying you know fine I 'm not gon na exclude anything , I think it 's actually going to be sort of , to try and eliminate most of this . |