Example sentences of "was [not/n't] going to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , it was not going to work . |
| 2 | My ploy of leading our little group of producers with programme instruction by example was a compromise that was not going to work . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The first sign that the jump was not going to plan came when the parachutists seemed to have trouble forming up . |
| 8 | She was not going to back down on this one , you could tell . |
| 9 | It would have been stupid to say I was n't going to sleep with him , because I knew I would . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was always the point in the conversation where we knew it just was n't going to work . |
| 12 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 13 | It was n't going to work . |
| 14 | There and then Robbie vowed that his little plan was n't going to work . |
| 15 | But it was n't going to work . |
| 16 | I was n't going to court to get the order reduced , just stopped for a while until I get a job . |
| 17 | That 's why I was n't going to hand this out right at the beginning , because I wanted to make you work at it a bit more , er , then you can , when you 've got those two versions written underneath . |