Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Step aerobic classes are springing up everywhere , so there 's bound to be one near to you . |
| 32 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 33 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
| 34 | Most of all , although they were meant to be secret , these were secrets that were fairly indifferently kept ; if , indeed , they were kept at all . |
| 35 | The point is that they are unlikely to find answers to these questions neatly encapsulated in a few words , and so they are forced to be selective in what they read . |
| 36 | They are gifts fit for a king , and so they are meant to be . |
| 37 | ALTHOUGH it is bound to be a finite group , each of those I 've mentioned can be broken down into sub |
| 38 | The bidder appeared as soon as the stock market opened , but TVS boss Rudolph Agnew is keeping his identity a secret , although it is tipped to be US firm TCW Capital . |
| 39 | A last-minute hitch prevented the £1.5 million swap deal involving Coventry 's Kevin Gallacher and Blackburn 's Roy Wegerle being completed yesterday , although it is expected to be settled today . |
| 40 | There 's no Windows version yet — although it 's rumoured to be on its way — so if you want to move over to the GUI there 's no upgrade path for the time being . |
| 41 | For a child of five this was a terrifying experience , although it was meant to be a birthday treat . |
| 42 | Gordon Brown , who has been squeezed out of the leadership race by Smith ( although he is said to be consoled by the fact that he is ten years younger and can wait a generation ) will have an important contribution to make . |
| 43 | That was typical of Sam : although he was acknowledged to be one of the finest seamen in the village , he was still young , and reluctant to delegate the steering to members of his crew . |
| 44 | It was a good question , and suggested strongly that the Argyll interest was less powerful than it was believed to be by the community at large . |
| 45 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 46 | Higher-than-expected entitlements levels , according to the Congressional Budget Office , is one of the main reasons why the deficit is bigger than it was expected to be in the 1990 budget agreement . |
| 47 | partly this was because the current account deficit appears much smaller in current ( 1980s ) data than it was thought to be by contemporaries ; mainly , it would seem , because the invisible position was actually much better than was then realized . |
| 48 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 49 | The Moffat Discovery has been designed and built to conform to or exceed all relevant British Standards so it is guaranteed to be safe , reliable and engineered to the highest quality . |
| 50 | ‘ He 's going to have a pretty bad headache for a while and the cut is pretty deep , so it 's bound to be sore . |
| 51 | Seventy per cent of working women are paid less than what 's estimated to be a ‘ living wage ’ . |
| 52 | Under the income support system , if a person 's resources are less than what is deemed to be his or her ‘ applicable amount ’ of Income Support , then eligibility is gained . |
| 53 | If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend . |
| 54 | Will be paid if you are required to be at work over the lunch period ( ie 1200 – 1400 ) and there is no Council establishment at which a lunch could be obtained . |
| 55 | ‘ If you 're determined to be so pigheadedly stubborn and blind to the truth , so be it . ’ |
| 56 | At Liverpool clubs , the toilets are full of catsuited girls who look at you as if you 're rumoured to be a child molester . |
| 57 | We are a , an innocent man until we are shown to be guilty . |
| 58 | This woman/man is not my life , but if we are meant to be together , we will be . |
| 59 | ‘ I 'm not sure if we 're meant to be making this up or not , ’ muses Gordon . |
| 60 | ‘ I 'm not sure if we 're meant to be making this up or not , ’ muses Gordon . |