Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [adj] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were very realistic were these , and there were fifty to be moved . |
| 2 | The other thing that might contribute to er er improving matters would be if the compensation arrangements er were such that the er fund managers were involved in having to provide some of the compensa compensation if there were any to be paid , then there 's obviously a very good incentive for them to police themselves more thoroughly . |
| 3 | But a Spanish visitor once made her realise there was much to be done to improve the look of the University buildings . |
| 4 | There was much to be done fairly quickly , was there not ? |
| 5 | His finding was that the capacity to experience it was much more highly developed in wives who had indulged in intercourse before marriage than in those who had remained chaste — in short there was much to be said against chastity . |
| 6 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 7 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 8 | In these circumstances there was much to be said for sticking to forms that were known and accepted ; and in spite of the great list of possible wordings in PS , the Digest does not give the impression that the more obscure terms were much used . |
| 9 | Perhaps after all there was much to be said for remaining independent , carving out your own orbit . |
| 10 | None the less , there was a substantial majority in favour of accepting it as a basis for discussion , largely because there was much to be said about the interrelationship of pope , bishops and curia , and the draft provided this opportunity . |
| 11 | The Law Commissions of England and Scotland in their joint Report on the Interpretation of Statutes in 1969 and the Renton Committee on the Preparation of Legislation both recognised that there was much to be said in principle for relaxing the rule but advised against a relaxation at present on the same practical grounds as are reflected in the authorities . |
| 12 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
| 13 | The fact that the two hospitals were less than three miles apart , that they had a combined acreage of 375 acres , that they were outmoded from the point of view of treatment , and that both had ‘ spare capacity ’ because of the continued decline in the long-stay population meant that there was much to be gained from merger . |
| 14 | On the other hand , there was much to be commended in the way Britain relinquished the reins of empire . |
| 15 | He became keenly aware that there was much to be learned from practice overseas but his method remained essentially descriptive , allowing his meticulously detailed reports to speak for themselves . |
| 16 | There was little to be done to prevent this inexorable build up of pressure from the roots . |
| 17 | Moore himself said later that there was little to be said in favour of this account . |
| 18 | There was a war to be fought ; and after that possibility evaporated , there was fun to be pirated wherever it showed its flag . |