Example sentences of "[adj] were [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those few were likely to be surgeons , dentists , accountants and solicitors in private practice , certainly not schoolmasters , university lecturers , architects in public service ( most of them ) or vets . |
| 2 | He was determined to regain what his father had lost , and raise the French monarchy from its abasement after Poitiers ; but his methods were to be diplomacy , subversion , and limited campaigns rather than a great battle in which , as he appreciated , the French were liable to be defeated yet again . |
| 3 | The French were supposed to be ‘ liberating' ’ Ireland , that 's the official story . ’ |
| 4 | She tells how the women came to the factory beaten by their husbands and how some were scared to be downgraded in their work because they feared a beating from husbands who would think that they were holding some money back . |
| 5 | Donations of fire-fighting equipment and technical advice began to arrive in late October , but observers commented that these were likely to be largely of symbolic political value only . |
| 6 | Although these were supposed to be held monthly , devious excuses were manifold when one side or the other wished to dodge an awkward issue . |
| 7 | The remaining twenty-seven were obliged to be withdrawn in consequence of action brought or disputed ownership . |
| 8 | It had little impact on the LSE students who , if they were in anything at all were likely to be inclined towards the Trotskyism of the International Socialists and the varieties of new leftism rather than this unknown creed . |
| 9 | Refugee children under the age of sixteen were liable to be evacuated ; refugee children over sixteen risked being interned . |
| 10 | Altogether forty-five couples were suggested , and twenty-five were willing to be interviewed , although five of these did not meet the research criteria . |
| 11 | He told the conference — which is considering future world political , economic , social , scientific and environmental trends — that with the relative decline in the economic importance of the United States and the diminishing military threat posed by the Soviet Union , the new civil super powers of the 1990s were likely to be Japan and Western Europe . |
| 12 | Most of the Vietnamese were glad to be sent home . |
| 13 | Of the ICBMs , 130 were due to be dismantled under the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START 1 ) negotiated by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev . |
| 14 | He was what the 1960s were supposed to be about : rich , successful , well placed in the media , what the cant of the time regarded as classless . |
| 15 | And all single or childless women between twenty and thirty were liable to be directed to essential war work of some kind as we can see here erm com coming to the factories erm there 's a woman there driving a tank another one on er a gu a gun sight . |
| 16 | Six had reached plea bargain arrangements with the authorities and the remaining seven were due to be tried later in the year . |