Example sentences of "always [v-ing] to be [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They are always pretending to be grown-ups playing soldiers , playing shop .
2 Chapter five dealt with misspellings and mis-recognitions , but there are always going to be cases when the input word is not in the look-up word list .
3 She was always going to be Mrs Bissett to Vicky , and Mrs Bissett to Dorothy on the other side .
4 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 .
5 ‘ When you 're men and women living together in close quarters like that there is always going to be temptation . ’
6 ‘ When you 're men and women living together in close quarters like that there is always going to be temptation . ’
7 ‘ The next date , of course , was always going to be trouble .
8 But when you 're a £2.5m striker who 's living up to his price-tag as spectacularly as he has done , there are always going to be people out to bring you down a peg or two .
9 There are always going to be people who will come out strongly for or against it .
10 ‘ There are always going to be people who enjoy violence , however , these people can not operate unless they receive support , if only tacit , from the community .
11 But I ca n't say stop the violence , because there 's always going to be violence .
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