Example sentences of "there 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 . |