Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were sure to be other spies reporting to Matilda ; Brien fitzCount had said as much . |
| 2 | They were very realistic were these , and there were fifty to be moved . |
| 3 | The other thing that might contribute to er er improving matters would be if the compensation arrangements er were such that the er fund managers were involved in having to provide some of the compensa compensation if there were any to be paid , then there 's obviously a very good incentive for them to police themselves more thoroughly . |
| 4 | Ford wants to shed more than 1,400 jobs through voluntary redundancy , but Mr Adams said there were unlikely to be enough volunteers . |
| 5 | Ford wants to shed more than 1,400 jobs through voluntary redundancy , but Mr Adams said there were unlikely to be enough volunteers . |
| 6 | Manchester TEC tells us that there are ’ between 1,200-2,000 young people in the Guarantee Group wanting to join YT for whom there were unlikely to be places available before Christmas . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I did drop a bit of business into the pleasantries , like asking if there were likely to be any hand deliveries that morning . |
| 11 | The Blackshirts deliberately concentrated on those areas where there were liable to be violent counter-demonstrations . |
| 12 | There was sure to be more . |
| 13 | There was sure to be a considerable though decreasing number of households to which the credit system was indispensable , and whose custom tradesmen must lose if refusing to accede to these terms . |
| 14 | There was sure to be a copy of Hamlet on the shelves . |
| 15 | There was certain to be a good deal of opposition in the Cabinet . |
| 16 | On the other hand , there was much to be commended in the way Britain relinquished the reins of empire . |
| 17 | His finding was that the capacity to experience it was much more highly developed in wives who had indulged in intercourse before marriage than in those who had remained chaste — in short there was much to be said against chastity . |
| 18 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 19 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 20 | In these circumstances there was much to be said for sticking to forms that were known and accepted ; and in spite of the great list of possible wordings in PS , the Digest does not give the impression that the more obscure terms were much used . |
| 21 | Perhaps after all there was much to be said for remaining independent , carving out your own orbit . |
| 22 | ‘ I doubt he 'd think there was much to be proud of . ’ |
| 23 | None the less , there was a substantial majority in favour of accepting it as a basis for discussion , largely because there was much to be said about the interrelationship of pope , bishops and curia , and the draft provided this opportunity . |
| 24 | He became keenly aware that there was much to be learned from practice overseas but his method remained essentially descriptive , allowing his meticulously detailed reports to speak for themselves . |
| 25 | The fact that the two hospitals were less than three miles apart , that they had a combined acreage of 375 acres , that they were outmoded from the point of view of treatment , and that both had ‘ spare capacity ’ because of the continued decline in the long-stay population meant that there was much to be gained from merger . |
| 26 | But a Spanish visitor once made her realise there was much to be done to improve the look of the University buildings . |
| 27 | The Law Commissions of England and Scotland in their joint Report on the Interpretation of Statutes in 1969 and the Renton Committee on the Preparation of Legislation both recognised that there was much to be said in principle for relaxing the rule but advised against a relaxation at present on the same practical grounds as are reflected in the authorities . |
| 28 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
| 29 | There was much to be done fairly quickly , was there not ? |
| 30 | Even if there was little to be suspicious about , such cosiness made others suspicious . |