Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [noun] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were changes to be made , a BMA spokesman said , but they would be made within the existing system . |
| 2 | Even in Brittany , which was a much less wealthy province than Normandy , there were rewards to be won : Sir Thomas Dagworth , for instance , was paid 25,000 gold écus as a reward for his capture of Charles of Blois , and the English garrisons in Brittany plundered the surrounding countryside . |
| 3 | Verse 28 : despite the way the verse reads , and the New English Bible 's interpretation , verse 27 and 45:4 make it far more likely that Joseph was sold by his brothers , Reuben 's absence is not improbable — there were flocks to be seen to . |
| 4 | But there were problems to be resolved . |
| 5 | There were grandchildren to be met for the first time . |
| 6 | For some buyers there were bargains to be had . |
| 7 | She brought a bowl from the cupboard and filled it with water from the kettle , there were chores to be done before she could even begin to make a meal for the three of them . |
| 8 | As it got dark there was a nightmare of organisation and shouting ; there were meals to be cooked for the Sergeants , marquee and tents to be erected in a rainstorm , personal kit to be unpacked and weapons to be put into a makeshift armoury . |
| 9 | Then there were blankets to be cleaned , saddles to be lifted on and buckles galore to be done up on girths and surcingles , stirrups and cruppers , breastplates and bridles . |
| 10 | There were checks to be done , now that Hess had replaced the mechanic , so Karlheinz backed off a few paces with the camera . |
| 11 | She glanced round her , there were boots to be tapped , heavy working boots belonging to Cleg the Coal with the sole hanging off like a ragged tongue . |
| 12 | There were things to be done , important things . |
| 13 | There were things to be done , and they had been done , and everything was inexplicable . |
| 14 | There were things to be said and asked , things they both needed to understand , but she was n't inclined to risk such a potentially traumatic discussion now , so shortly before she had to go out and be both professional and sociable . |
| 15 | ‘ But you know , ’ he murmured , ‘ there were things to be done on the boat . |
| 16 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |
| 17 | There were decisions to be made , and foremost was the need to get rid of the jade . |
| 18 | On most days there were cases to be heard by Magistrates G.R. Tretheway , Wm . |
| 19 | After that there were cheques to be attended to and put aside to await Silas 's signature . |
| 20 | When there were contractors to be handed out directors may have tried to help one another , but that can hardly have been a sufficient reason for buying up large blocks of shares . |
| 21 | There were matters to be discussed that were really quite urgent . |
| 22 | There were warships to be laid down . |
| 23 | There were babies and there were children to be looked after , also Uncle Farmborough , who must in the end have become old in himself , since there was talk of my grandmother having to change his trousers . |
| 24 | There were details to be arranged . |
| 25 | Each ticket cost £30 , and only as many tickets were sold as there were items to be raffled , so that every ticketholder received a prize . |
| 26 | Or at least , not being bothered about a few whiskers when there were animals to be saved . |
| 27 | With the labour force depleted by the military , there were jobs to be filled , and at better rates of pay than elsewhere in the country . |
| 28 | I 've never found that a congenial notion ; it seemed to me that there were ways to be quite contemporary and yet go at the art in a fashion that would allow you to tell complicated stories simply for the aesthetic pleasure of complexity of complication and unravelment , suspense , and the rest . |
| 29 | But the advent of the Nationalists , though hard to analyse , did suggest that there were votes to be won or lost , at least in Scotland and Wales , on the public 's sense of remoteness from decision-taking or its lack of knowledge of the existing degree of devolution to the Scottish and Welsh Offices and on the general confusion as to which body was responsible for what . |
| 30 | There were classrooms to be cleaned , dormitories , the hall , the church . |