Example sentences of "[ex0] was [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The red stripe on the file was attached only if there was believed to be a risk of escape . |
| 2 | Techno Tracies and crop-headed sheep on drugs were tainting the atmosphere at raves , and there was beginning to be something familiar in the frenzy of old favourites such as Kaos and Ark . |
| 3 | There was seen to be an urgent need to give much greater recognition to the potential contribution of NHS managers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was bound to be trouble and it was not long in coming . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He is n't a rapist but there was bound to be some sexual element . ’ |
| 12 | There was bound to be some tension when he teamed with Marlon Brando for Guys and Dolls in 1955 . |
| 13 | It 's just that I have n't had time to think about it and I only thought that with all those shepherds in the area there was bound to be some traffic in illegally slaughtered lamb . |
| 14 | There was bound to be something in their squat that would lead the police to him . |
| 15 | In such an institution , he felt , there was bound to be a number of aged people of unsound mind simply because of age ; they were better kept at the workhouse with a special attendant , and in a ground floor ward . |
| 16 | There was bound to be some tension between the governmental bureaucracy and that of the CPSU . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose you would have liked to drive down together , but of course he had to deposit Emma at her cousin 's house first , so there was bound to be some delay . ’ |
| 18 | There was bound to be one . |
| 19 | It was worth a looksee anyway and there was bound to be somebody around to ask ; a poacher or an itinerant hop-picker or whatever sort of person wandered the countryside these days . |
| 20 | In March he told Mauriac that there was bound to be a war between the Soviet Union and the " Anglo-Saxons " . |
| 21 | He said in any system there was bound to be a turnover leading to some vacant homes . |
| 22 | He said in any system there was bound to be a turnover leading to some vacant homes . |
| 23 | After all , there was bound to be an element of cross matching , was there not ? |
| 24 | After the disappointment of Paris , when everyone kept reminding him how he 'd missed five kicks out of six in the Parc des Princes , there was bound to be a reaction from Hastings at Murrayfield . |
| 25 | The Department of Defense refused further co-operation , the risk of a hostile audience reception being felt to be too great , and there was perceived to be an indifference to the war created by television news saturation . |
| 26 | There was intended to be time to descend , to retire through the covert and to supervise the fast , careful infill of stone that would give them their bridge when the walls fell . |
| 27 | Er , a particular concern at the time of writing the report was the position concerning the long outstanding proposals to develop to redevelop the two sites in Harlow erm to date we have no information from the county , er , there was scheduled to be erm , the meeting due to take place on the twenty second of September but the county er cancelled that meeting so it 's impossible at this stage to give any further comment on that erm although I believe that matter 's being taken up . |
| 28 | There was assumed to be a counterpart in human events to every celestial phenomenon . |
| 29 | When Richard was a young man there was reckoned to be a tournament about once a fortnight on the Continent ; in England they were prohibited on the orders of Henry II . |
| 30 | In the 1960s there was felt to be a vast gap not only between those primary schools where the teaching was ‘ traditional ’ and those where it was ‘ advanced ’ or ‘ child-centred ’ , but also between primary and secondary schools . |