Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene was set for confrontation and as these confrontations continued without an end in sight , it became clear that the usual tactics of the unions were not going to work . |
| 2 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 3 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 4 | He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more . |
| 5 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 6 | He said , then half an hour after Albert rung up to say that you were n't coming to work , so I were right in shit ! |
| 7 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 8 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 9 | Now , at last , here in Hochhauser , looking her best , with her dear , dear friends from the past , she knew it was all going to work . |
| 10 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 11 | Sadly , it was not going to work . |
| 12 | My ploy of leading our little group of producers with programme instruction by example was a compromise that was not going to work . |
| 13 | After a moment or two , the maternity nurse , finding that her ruse of trying to get mother and baby more acquainted was not going to work , took him from her . |
| 14 | He thought he had better leave the pistol where it was ; it was much too heavy to carry around if it was not going to work . |
| 15 | Keith Simmons , Alborne 's lethal striker , put them ahead with a goal from the centre spot right on kick-off , and it was immediately obvious that our radical 0-2-7 formation was not going to work . |
| 16 | Robyn raised the glass to her lips and took a first sip ; she had a feeling that counting to ten was not going to work , but she tried it all the same . |
| 17 | However , as the medical picture became more clear , there became more and more a sense of underlying tension , with heroic care being delivered by people possessing the knowledge that it was n't going to work . |
| 18 | There was always the point in the conversation where we knew it just was n't going to work . |
| 19 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 20 | It was n't going to work . |
| 21 | There and then Robbie vowed that his little plan was n't going to work . |
| 22 | But it was n't going to work . |
| 23 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |
| 24 | ‘ The alternative was putting in a bleep , and that was never going to work . |
| 25 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 26 | This was never going to work ! |
| 27 | Whelan showed considerable grace and skill up front but the strategy of putting high balls into the West Ham box was never going to work with their defensive blanket , and a highly competent goalie . |