Example sentences of "[pron] 's [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your wife 's very tired — she 's bound to be weak , after losing so much blood — but you can see her for a few minutes . ’ |
| 2 | You say you do n't want Mo to be hurt , but she 's bound to be if this goes on . ’ |
| 3 | But she 's bound to be rather boring , so they wo n't want to stay all that long . ’ |
| 4 | She 's bound to be fussing with something or other when we arrive , and we 'll be twiddling our thumbs for twenty minutes before she condescends to appear . ’ |
| 5 | We do n't want Americans to think we are n't hospitable , and besides , she 's bound to be lying there thinking of sex , poor little thing , and it 'll be all wet and hairy , and so deliciously — ’ |
| 6 | She 's bound to be interested . |
| 7 | She 's bound to be very worried about you . ’ |
| 8 | Oh she 's bound to be |
| 9 | Turns out , Deardrie , she 's applied to be an astronaut — I remember seeing the advert , asking for people to go to the moon — it 's not that I 'm jealous , but why did n't she ask me first ? |
| 10 | ‘ She 's begun to be difficult about going to bed , so I let her sleep there . ’ |
| 11 | TV funnygirl Pamela Stephenson demonstrates that she 's determined to be the star of this show . |
| 12 | This points to Eleanor of Provence , Edward 's mother and consort of Henry III , whose reputation is as bad as that of Eleanor of Castile is good — though not for David Gordon , who seems to think that because she 's said to be ‘ of Provence ’ , this puts her above suspicion . |
| 13 | She 's said to be the daughter of a English general and apparently very beautiful … a good bit younger than him , of course . ’ |
| 14 | But she 's said to be brave , tough , and very bright . ’ |
| 15 | She 's said to be in a great state of shock . |
| 16 | Her owner claims she probably wants to exercise to shed a few ounces.Pets should be safe as Thumper s not been trained to hunt and she 's refused to be tempted down with titbits . |
| 17 | ‘ I think she 's meant to be Echo . ’ |
| 18 | I mean it 's the last fortnight she 's meant to be studying and she 's been out with her boyfriends and |
| 19 | And she 's meant to be here . |
| 20 | Well she 's meant to be a real bitch anyway . |
| 21 | She 's expected to be identified tomorrow . |
| 22 | We 've hardly managed to touch on prisons at all , or though , although , I know that we have amongst us hundred people who er , who are , are responsible for and er and have dedicated much time to working in prisons and I do n't know whether there is sufficient people here qualified to comment or not whether the prisons do a good job , so I 'll ask some one who 's bound to be a slightly partial Audrey , there 's only one women 's prison as some one said earlier , now your an ex-governor , now is that right ? |
| 23 | ‘ What , the one who 's meant to be finding out about your dad ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I understand people associating me with bands I 've worked on as an engineer , but I do n't understand why I am the only engineer in the world who 's expected to be discriminating about the bands he 's worked with … ’ |
| 25 | Officers from two police forces are now hunting the attcker who 's thought to be black , around thirty , six feet tall , of muscular build . |
| 26 | This artist 's impression is said to be a good likeness of the attacker who 's thought to be in his late 30s and has a pot belly . |
| 27 | The Sultan who 's thought to be the richest man in the world , is on a state visit to Britain . |
| 28 | ‘ This one 's meant to be priceless , ’ Lorton said . |
| 29 | A few weeks , sometimes only a few days after a major disaster or tragedy — Hillsborough , Piper Alpha or Zeebrugge — there 's bound to be a gag about it . |
| 30 | Whilst not every child has the aptitude for sport , with such a large choice of activities in the country , there 's bound to be something which each child can enjoy . |