Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madonna and Jackson never have mixed — even professionally , though they were once set to work together on a duet . |
| 2 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Reference was earlier made to work of Abrams ( in Bulmer , 1986 ) whose findings and commentary on this issue are equally illuminating . |
| 7 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |
| 8 | ‘ The alternative was putting in a bleep , and that was never going to work . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This was never going to work ! |
| 11 | 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 . |