Example sentences of "[ex0] was [adj] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was sure to be more . |
| 2 | There was sure to be a considerable though decreasing number of households to which the credit system was indispensable , and whose custom tradesmen must lose if refusing to accede to these terms . |
| 3 | There was sure to be a copy of Hamlet on the shelves . |
| 4 | There was certain to be a good deal of opposition in the Cabinet . |
| 5 | She had been in the post for only seven months when the inquiry started , had little public or professional support , and there was unlikely to be any backlash to her being blamed . |
| 6 | But a spokesman for Harrison said that after overheads there was unlikely to be any money left for the party . |
| 7 | Colonial merchants might not like the English monopoly of trade , but they wanted their markets in England , so there was unlikely to be opposition to the general principles of the Acts of Trade . |
| 8 | Anxious to get news of this latest development back to their own offices and realising that there was unlikely to be any more to be gleaned from this unpleasant vigil , the remaining newspeople departed as the small convoy of police traffic vanished into the maw of the blizzard . |
| 9 | There was unlikely to be a place for him in a reconstituted kingdom of Aquitaine that included Septimania and was ruled by Charles the Bald . |
| 10 | There was a war to be fought ; and after that possibility evaporated , there was fun to be pirated wherever it showed its flag . |
| 11 | ‘ There was supposed to be champagne in the orange juice , ’ Zak said dryly . |
| 12 | There was supposed to be a ship 's doctor aboard but no-one below decks had set eyes on him . |
| 13 | There was supposed to be no way to get at the bastard . |
| 14 | I thought there was supposed to be a key kept under the flowerpot in the porch … |
| 15 | ( There was supposed to be a Mantegna . ) |
| 16 | There was supposed to be someone guarding the prisoner , but she could n't see anyone . |
| 17 | And she said Oh I thought there was supposed to be six of you here today , some did n't turn up . |
| 18 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 19 | Theodora wondered if there was supposed to be an agreed format for this sort of information but failed to detect any . |
| 20 | But even in Millers , we went and looked there was supposed to be a sale on they 're not much reduced are they ? |
| 21 | and that er he was er cos er last week there was supposed to be one of these big like rave things on and it was cancelled at the last minute . |
| 22 | She did not feel there was likely to be much in the way of ideas or co-operation from her daughter 's parents-in-law in this connection — at least , not from Lilian . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) That no stay was to be imposed unless a defendant established on the balance of probabilities that , owing to the delay , he would suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial could be held , in that the continuation of the prosecution amounted to a misuse of the process of the court ; that , in assessing whether there was likely to be prejudice and if so whether it could properly be described as serious , the court should bear in mind the trial judge 's power at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence , the trial process itself which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay would be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , and the judge 's powers to give appropriate directions before the jury considered their verdict ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's decision to stay the proceedings had been wrong , since such delay as there had been was not unjustifiable , the chances of prejudice were remote , the degree of potential prejudice was small , the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the police officer , there was no danger of the trial being unfair and in any event the case was not exceptional so as to justify the ruling ( post , p. 19B–E ) . |
| 24 | and McNeill J. , had to consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus , where justices had refused bail on the ground that there was likely to be interference with witnesses and had at an application for a further remand in custody declined to hear the defendant 's counsel who wished to renew the application for bail on the basis that there had been a material change of circumstances . |
| 25 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 26 | There was likely to be more interest in a member of the family who seemed to have come to the boil than in Sara who would cost time and patience to bring to blood heat . |
| 27 | but I think there was an awareness that there was likely to be much more opposition to , to land reform in the south . |
| 28 | Mr Deputy Speaker , no I did not know the exact amount of the recommendation but I of course assumed there was likely to be some pay increase and I have made an increase in grant which I am just about to explain to the house which will go some way to meet the requirements of local authorities and there are other assets and resources they have er which I will illustrate later on in my speech . |