Example sentences of "[ex0] were [verb] 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 | ‘ Eat up , ’ she said , ‘ There were going to be potatoes but I got lost chanting mantras . |
| 9 | Benny realised that there were going to be a great many areas where she would be at a loss . |
| 10 | That was all very well but there were going to be a lot of things to pay . |
| 11 | My next thought was that there were going to be a lot of other pissed-off people . |
| 12 | So there were going to be four months of hard training and probably a lot of violence . |
| 13 | Three right so perhaps someone had divided this pizza up and all the extra people kept coming in and your mum was saying , Oh no I thought there were going to be three and now there 's six of us . |
| 14 | And T X R X , B B C Radio Nottingham , to the effect that there were going to be these regular advice sessions at , which is the ac the tenants ' action group office . |
| 15 | Er a specific on only thing that might have been I think was really , erm the erm the concern that some people expect erm are for rural areas , whether there was going t there were going to be con whether things were going to be spread thinner on the ground in rural areas , particularly sort of transport costs , and of course erm there 's one , but nevertheless , the concern that that would be underlying that and the erm the erm the the rural community |
| 16 | There were going to be fireworks to finish , ‘ at dusk ’ according to the poster on the park gates . |
| 17 | When he arrived on the set all hunched up with his head down to his waist , she knew there were going to be problems on the way . |
| 18 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |
| 19 | We did n't know whether there were going to be any children . |
| 20 | All would be well , she said , because there were going to be so many doctors around . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By 1914 there were known to be 114 of them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In 1986 there were estimated to be 1.6 million children living in one parent families — one in eight of all dependent children . |
| 25 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 26 | There were estimated to be 260 in Brighthelmstone ( Brighton ) , 173 in Lewes and 300 in Rye , held together by their own sense of righteousness . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There were estimated to be 250,000 tonnes of carcinogenic PCBs in Europe . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | 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 . |