Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humans around the room were turning to look in that slow , clumsy way humans had . |
| 2 | Instead of worrying about that , the fashionable thing to worry about was how people were going to adapt to all the leisure which the automated future would provide . |
| 3 | And we described what we were going to do on this walk and where we were going to go and both sort of referred to the same composition and there was a prize for the for the one that was judged the best . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought we were going to talk after this weekend , ’ Vitor demurred , strolling after her into the drawing-room . |
| 5 | It was a special comeback because we did n't really look as though we were going to score for much of the game . |
| 6 | Staying in control had always been Kylie 's top priority , not even the most powerful entertainment men in the world were going to interfere with that . |
| 7 | You were going to think about this one . |
| 8 | We felt quite strongly that although it was a gesture , I do n't think it was a political gesture , I think it was a gesture that we as Councillors wanted to make so that we personally would suffer some of the reductions in erm finance that we were going to impose on other people . |
| 9 | Tony rang Kate 's parents to tell them to come round ( they were going to look after 2½-year-old William ) and , by the time they arrived , Kate had just about finished her bath . |
| 10 | The Party Headquarters thought we were going to get about fifty over all other Parties , and they are wrong by about eighty . |
| 11 | Firstly , we , the loss of jobs , er themselves employ a hundred and forty two people , there are a further one hundred and eight people who are employed in er periphery items and other firms on the airfield itself making two hundred and fifty , but this figure has doubled because of the imminent closure in March of Aerodrome and the number of companies who were going to transfer from these , and I hope transfer from these to Hatfield . |
| 12 | Wh what I mean to say is I could n't in advance guess which field it was that you were going to want at any particular moment . |
| 13 | Sitting in a bus next morning , eating pineapple and waiting for the driver , we heard that the survivors were going to walk on fiery coals that night down on the fairground . |
| 14 | He was to see the beginnings of the great urban slums of New York and Chicago , and he must have had some sense of this if they were going to speak to American working people , but still , there was the mythology , the possibility of millions of dollars waiting to be made . |
| 15 | Aggressively inclined courtiers like Prince Menshikov ( who was much more militant as a diplomat and as Navy Minister than as Governor of Finland ) were beginning to press for pre-emptive action . |
| 16 | The Pontiac crouched for a whole foot lower than it did before , and General Motors shareholders were beginning to complain at annual meetings of bumping their heads or not being able to wear a hat in a Buick . |
| 17 | Its chief purpose was to ensure corporate independence for the entire ecclesiastical organization in relation to all other social organizations , such as the Empire , and all the kingdoms , baronies , fiefs , and urban communities , which were beginning to proliferate in western Europe . |
| 18 | Around the same time the first desktop publishing programs , although they were n't called that , were beginning to emerge on Unix-based engines like the Sun and Apollo . |
| 19 | Various papers and magazines were beginning to thrive in this new atmosphere . |
| 20 | What was new was that socialism and internationalism , the two basic components of Labour 's ideology , were beginning to pull in opposite directions . |
| 21 | Managers were having to cope with plural and often competing professional expectations and priorities , in pursuit of which professions were prepared to use their power and resist management initiatives . |
| 22 | Chief Const Keith Hellawell criticised the mechanism used to deal with young offenders in particular as slow and bureaucratic , adding his officers were having to deal with young people who had no sense of social values . |
| 23 | Our 1985–6 pilot study suggested that coordinators were having to take on more roles than they could cope with . |
| 24 | Instead , the allow castings were starting to oxidise in some places . |
| 25 | In fact , almost a hundred years ago , Hawaiian music 's infectious melodies were starting to seep into much of the American continent , to be heard by white audiences in the northern states , the blacks in the South and even Latin Americans . |
| 26 | By the 1890s self-conscious research schools were starting to emerge in several areas . |
| 27 | This tendency not to see beyond the individual and his or her legal specialism that has been used before , to the other service available in the firm , is an old-established one — ‘ although , ’ said , ‘ I had hoped we were starting to get past that ’ . |
| 28 | A study by the West Midlands Regional Management Centre found employers were generally unaware of the impact of demographic changes , particularly its effect on young people entering the employment market , and were failing to look beyond traditional sources of labour . |
| 29 | Troops were also reported to have blocked about 2,000 Gamsakhurdia supporters who were preparing to march on Kutaisi to proclaim it the capital of Georgia . |
| 30 | Dicke and Peebles were preparing to look for this radiation when Penzias and Wilson heard about their work and realized that they had already found it . |