Example sentences of "there were [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were sure to be other spies reporting to Matilda ; Brien fitzCount had said as much . |
| 2 | Ford wants to shed more than 1,400 jobs through voluntary redundancy , but Mr Adams said there were unlikely to be enough volunteers . |
| 3 | Ford wants to shed more than 1,400 jobs through voluntary redundancy , but Mr Adams said there were unlikely to be enough volunteers . |
| 4 | I asked Joyce what aspect of her phobia she felt still remained and she said that she would like to be able to go into an open space such as a park , where there were likely to be many more birds around . |
| 5 | Lyn Nofziger and Lee Atwater took responsibility for stimulating outside pressure on congressmen from fifty-four swing districts — areas of the country where there were likely to be many conservative activists and where the president had run strongly in 1980 . |
| 6 | He was one-paced and , even at this lowly level , there were likely to be one or two horses behind her with a touch of finishing speed . |
| 7 | I did drop a bit of business into the pleasantries , like asking if there were likely to be any hand deliveries that morning . |
| 8 | The Blackshirts deliberately concentrated on those areas where there were liable to be violent counter-demonstrations . |