Example sentences of "[adj] [ex0] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a place like this there are bound to be some good seamstresses and Singers will surely have had their salesmen down here back in the days of the square-riggers . |
| 2 | Erm it 's quite clear there 's going to be no more new money for patient care and without that I do n't think we 're going to get the increase in quality of service but that we actually need . |
| 3 | How much design effort is needed in the different areas will not be clear at this stage but unless the system is very simple there are bound to be problems of overlap and of how far to arrange sub-teams by discipline , by function or by problem ( Singleton , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | Of course when one thought about it rationally it was obvious there was bound to be an investigation of some kind , but throughout the long flight she had been too concerned with the purely personal implications of the news item to give a thought to those who might have a financial interest in the story . |
| 5 | Where social attitudes and social behaviour are thus unmatched there is bound to be confusion and ambiguity in the popular mind and in personal reaction to the individual situation . |
| 6 | In fact , comparing columns 6 and 8 of table 8.3 there is seen to be no net flow of manual workers from the six most depressed regions of the country to the four most prosperous ones . |
| 7 | I 'm sure there is going to be a lot competition for places this year ’ , he said . |
| 8 | And Sugar , a 46-year-old former barrow boy from Chigwell , made sure there was going to be only one winner when the Tottenham board approved a resolution to sack Venables . |
| 9 | In all there are thought to be some three-quarters of a million of them surviving . |
| 10 | it will be terrible there is bound to be overspill and vandalism . |
| 11 | ‘ You keep wriggling — and , oh , Hilly , I 'm only human , and if you do n't lie still there 's going to be a very embarrassing incident . ’ |
| 12 | You 've got three thousand people locally who 've their signatures to a petition who do n't want this thing on their doorstep because they 're worried that they 've tha that there 're going to be things wrong with it 's going to affect the quality of the lives of people in Selby . |
| 13 | In 1986 there were estimated to be 1.6 million children living in one parent families — one in eight of all dependent children . |
| 14 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 15 | Now if those , erm , wages in the civil service are set , not through sort of market process , but sort of through institutional er , constraints , you know , it 's unlikely there 's going to be sort of er , union power erm , in these sorts of jobs , but nevertheless , civil servants tend to do quite well at giving themselves pay increases |
| 16 | By 1914 there were known to be 114 of them . |
| 17 | So by the 1930s there were thought to be at least 10 million cyclists — ten times the number of private motorists . |
| 18 | In the 1960s there was felt to be a vast gap not only between those primary schools where the teaching was ‘ traditional ’ and those where it was ‘ advanced ’ or ‘ child-centred ’ , but also between primary and secondary schools . |
| 19 | In the time of Henry VIII there were reckoned to be fifteen lords for each million of the population . |
| 20 | At the end of December 1990 there were estimated to be more than 92,000 neighbourhood watch schemes in England and Wales , covering nearly 5 million households . |