Example sentences of "[ex0] was [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COUNTY councillor David Clark warned of significant changes to bus services affecting Liss residents at the parish council annual general meeting last week , saying that there was bound to be some confusion for a time . |
| 2 | He is n't a rapist but there was bound to be some sexual element . ’ |
| 3 | There was bound to be some tension when he teamed with Marlon Brando for Guys and Dolls in 1955 . |
| 4 | It 's just that I have n't had time to think about it and I only thought that with all those shepherds in the area there was bound to be some traffic in illegally slaughtered lamb . |
| 5 | There was bound to be some tension between the governmental bureaucracy and that of the CPSU . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose you would have liked to drive down together , but of course he had to deposit Emma at her cousin 's house first , so there was bound to be some delay . ’ |
| 7 | There was reported to be strong personal rivalry between Demirel and Özal , who had been Demirel 's economic adviser in 1979-80 before acting as an adviser to the military regime of 1980-82 and founding the ANAP in 1983 . |
| 8 | I had every right to be if there was going to be this sort of hostility between the two of them all the way down into the ice . |
| 9 | Ellie could sense there was going to be bad trouble , and it was n't long in coming . |
| 10 | And I 'm sure a lot of times he had no idea what was going to come out , but he knew there was going to be some sort of feedback or something , so he 'd just play with it when it came . ’ |
| 11 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 12 | I told you that there was going to be some available but |
| 13 | But you 'd perhaps go three or four times before the baby was born and er just see everything was alright and you 'd know which way the baby was lying a and which way it was going to er you know come and if you thought there was going to be any problems well you know then you , you would sort of let the doctor know and , and he 'd decide then . |
| 14 | Thought there was meant to be four . |