Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He probably realised we were just going to sea . |
| 7 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 8 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 9 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Air quality manager Peter Shawcross said the results were currently being examined and evaluated and that interesting facts were already coming to light . |
| 12 | The remainder of these unfortunates were already contributing to family incomes as labourers , shop boys , glovers , house-servants , rag collectors and so on . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Some of them were still standing to attention as they fell . |
| 16 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 17 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 18 | Meanwhile many intelligent deaf people who might have gone into education , but now finding these opportunities non-existent because of the Education Act of 1893 which had implemented the Royal Commission for the Education of the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb 's recommendations , were now turning to missioner positions in deaf societies and institutes for a living . |
| 19 | In other words , er they were n't trying to sort of scrape it together to actually repay your , repay your twelve thousand pound wh loan at the end of twenty years . |
| 20 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 21 | He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more . |
| 22 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 23 | At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed . |
| 24 | He said , then half an hour after Albert rung up to say that you were n't coming to work , so I were right in shit ! |
| 25 | Alternatively , if a firm made its issue thinking share prices were indeed going to rocket ( for that is what the low yields implied ) , then it could be worth its while to take the cash and invest it back into equities or other financial instruments . |
| 26 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 27 | 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 |