Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry II would need to have been an unusually stupid man not to realize that there were bound to be difficult moments in the relationship between him and his heir . |
| 2 | She was n't sure whether there were any artists or writers in town at the moment , but there were bound to be one or two back in the city after the Christmas recess . |
| 3 | There were bound to be some who felt as Frank did . |
| 4 | After all , put any man and woman alone together and there were bound to be misapprehensions . |
| 5 | In the time of Henry VIII there were reckoned to be fifteen lords for each million of the population . |
| 6 | His right to the throne was distinctly tenuous ; there were said to be 57 people , if Roman Catholics were included , with a better claim . |
| 7 | But there were said to be no signs of a break-in . |
| 8 | There were known to be four coastal guns , mounted with anti-aircraft batteries , on Maaloy to defend the Ulvesund anchorage where convoys sheltered in bad weather or gathered before crossing more open waters not protected by outer islands . |
| 9 | By 1914 there were known to be 114 of them . |
| 10 | It was more a trickle than a flood , for peaceful homesteads could be successfully built only where there was relative security , and where there were known to be agriculturally suitable regions . |
| 11 | In 1986 there were estimated to be 1.6 million children living in one parent families — one in eight of all dependent children . |
| 12 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 13 | There were estimated to be 260 in Brighthelmstone ( Brighton ) , 173 in Lewes and 300 in Rye , held together by their own sense of righteousness . |
| 14 | At the end of December 1990 there were estimated to be more than 92,000 neighbourhood watch schemes in England and Wales , covering nearly 5 million households . |
| 15 | There were estimated to be 250,000 tonnes of carcinogenic PCBs in Europe . |
| 16 | Talk about the increasing representation of women , there were meant to be more women in the shadow cabinet with the elections for the shadow cabinet produced a disaster for women did n't it ? |
| 17 | Before the present conflict there were thought to be as many as 4,000 elephants in Sri Lanka , though 3,000 is a more likely total . |
| 18 | So by the 1930s there were thought to be at least 10 million cyclists — ten times the number of private motorists . |
| 19 | ( There were thought to be 2,600 West Africans , mostly Nigerians , in territory held by the NPFL ; attacks on Ghanaians and Nigerians were reported at the beginning of September , and Taylor , who was reported to be holding a large number of foreigners hostage , declared war on the ECOMOG force early in September . ) |
| 20 | In Tambov town there were reported to be as few as three Bolsheviks on the very eve of the October Revolution . |
| 21 | The red stripe on the file was attached only if there was believed to be a risk of escape . |
| 22 | There was seen to be an urgent need to give much greater recognition to the potential contribution of NHS managers . |
| 23 | There was seen to be a need to protect such witnesses as a Swiss banker who is prevented by Swiss law from disclosing bank details , or a French physician whose duty of professional secrecy is enforced under severe professional sanctions . |
| 24 | There was understood to be increasing UK and Egyptian concern over the supposed influence of the Libyan second-in-command , Maj. Abdel Salem Jalloud , on the Libyan stance . |
| 25 | There was bound to be trouble and it was not long in coming . |
| 26 | This meant that his grandad was temporarily unavailable for a ‘ tap ’ , but there was bound to be someone in the cafe who would stand him a coffee . |
| 27 | COUNTY councillor David Clark warned of significant changes to bus services affecting Liss residents at the parish council annual general meeting last week , saying that there was bound to be some confusion for a time . |
| 28 | It was heresy , of course , but the show was likely to last another hour at least — Saint Laurent was famous for the length of his shows — and afterwards there was bound to be the most fearful crush . |
| 29 | Of course when one thought about it rationally it was obvious there was bound to be an investigation of some kind , but throughout the long flight she had been too concerned with the purely personal implications of the news item to give a thought to those who might have a financial interest in the story . |
| 30 | He is n't a rapist but there was bound to be some sexual element . ’ |