Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They admit arranging for 5,000 dollars to be handed over in envelopes but say they were merely responding to UEFA instructions to cover the officials ' expenses . |
| 2 | The absurdity of the universities ' power to dictate the curriculum to schools catering for children , 90 per cent of whom were not proceeding to university , was manifest . |
| 3 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 4 | Were not biking to Orpington were biking to Bromley . |
| 5 | He had , and was going to have , the worst hangover of his life , but even in the throes of it he was aware of a sense of relief that they were staying there , they were not going to Greece . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 8 | They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them . |
| 9 | Asked why the shows were not coming to Washington D.C. , New York , Chicago or Los Angeles , Mr Hoving said : ‘ Oh , they 'll grumble something about scheduling or funding . |
| 10 | You were just pandering to prejudices — ‘ |
| 11 | He probably realised we were just going to sea . |
| 12 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 13 | They reached the surgery door at the same time as the strange little group and , as they ushered their client in , he said , ‘ We were just going to Sheldrake and Woodall when we saw your plate on Broom House gate . ’ |
| 14 | When Diana joined the Stewart-Richardsons they were just coming to terms with a family tragedy . |
| 15 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 16 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 17 | There were reports that some ministers , less optimistic in the face of evidence that a number of her supporters were already defecting to Heseltine , were seeking to stabilise the situation by holding out the prospect that Mrs Thatcher might retire voluntarily in the spring , making an orderly succession possible then . |
| 18 | Pushers were already selling to children and crime would soar as addicts sought money for drugs . |
| 19 | Left with no choice but to accept the responsibility or to pursue its own independent inquiries , the airline instructed Windels , Marx , Davies & Ives to prepare its defence and to investigate the suggestions of government complicity that were already coming to light . |
| 20 | Air quality manager Peter Shawcross said the results were currently being examined and evaluated and that interesting facts were already coming to light . |
| 21 | The remainder of these unfortunates were already contributing to family incomes as labourers , shop boys , glovers , house-servants , rag collectors and so on . |
| 22 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 23 | I thought it was a big world , for we were always going to conventions and special meetings where , so it seemed then , there were thousands of others like myself . |
| 24 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 25 | Today at an emergency meeting with Union Leaders to discuss their future , they were still coming to terms with the shock of redundancy . |
| 26 | Mrs Adams said her four sons — Richard , nine , Stuart , five , Mark , two , and Thomas , 11 months — were still coming to terms with the loss of their father , a former Royal Air Force engineer whom she described as a happy , family man . |
| 27 | ‘ Some of them were still standing to attention as they fell . |
| 28 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 29 | Thai saw-mill operators were also turning to loggers in Laos , Cambodia , Indonesia and Malaysia to replace their lost supplies . |
| 30 | I remember two lady missionaries , who were also returning to Burma , saying , ‘ Well , of course we shall arrive safely because we are going out to do the Lord 's work . ’ |