Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [be] a long " in BNC.
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1 | It was going to be a long day . |
2 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
3 | It 's going to be a long struggle getting established and until I am I do n't see how … ’ |
4 | It 's just going to be a long , slow process . |
5 | ‘ It 's going to be a long night , ’ he said , and he turned to Creed , who had just walked into the room , and smiled . |
6 | After Leeds slipped towards the relegation zone with a 3-1 defeat at Blackburn on Saturday , McAllister forecast : ‘ It is going to be a long hard winter . |
7 | I think it 's going to be a long summer with a lot of killings . ’ |
8 | Freak ‘ I knew it was going to be a long day . |
9 | Erm Oh dear this is going to be a long list of things I was supposed to do but did n't . |
10 | This is going to be a long and difficult task ; difficult , but in my view , absolutely essential . |
11 | And it 's going to be a long time before it 's going to be possible , so therefore we still have to use animals , I see no way round it . |
12 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
13 | ‘ Going to be a long day , ’ said the Immigration man . |
14 | Waterville Valley and the World Cup finals in late March was going to be a long haul . |
15 | ‘ The next few days are going to be a long , hard slog . |
16 | " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate . |
17 | " It 's going to be a long time before we get another chance , though , is n't it though ? " |
18 | It 's going to be a long session . ’ |
19 | We 're off to Ghent tomorrow , and it 's going to be a long , long day . ’ |
20 | Tomorrow 's going to be a long , hard day and God knows if it will yield anything . ’ |
21 | It was going to be a long cold night . |
22 | And it was going to be a long term strategy . |
23 | Although … well , it does look as though it 's going to be a long time before they can leave hospital , ’ she added sorrowfully . |
24 | It was going to be a long night . |
25 | But it was going to be a long day … |
26 | Dozens of boxes of documents were taken into court at the start of the complicated trial , a trial which the jury were warned by the judge , is going to be a long haul . |
27 | It 's going to be a long , hard season for Hereford … but it could be even longer and harder for Gloucester rugby club . |
28 | ‘ I always knew this was going to be a long haul . ’ |
29 | George had every right to be a bit angry with Lennie because Lennie had caused George to loose his job and Lennie had ‘ adopted ’ George as his family and George knew that it was going to be a long hard task keeping Lennie out of trouble and looking after him . |
30 | We are given a picture of death , the death of Pip 's real chance for ever finding contentment , and he sees that it is going to be a long , hard struggle back to finding happiness in life , it is a test of Pip 's strength of character . |