Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home . |
| 2 | This process of policy-shaping is held to be legitimate because the local state has to react to popular pressures in devising its welfare systems . |
| 3 | The total damage done is said to be millions and millions . |
| 4 | Whatever he says is bound to be controversial , though that does not matter as long as it is not provocative . |
| 5 | To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern . ’ |
| 6 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 7 | This occurs when individuals ' act in a way they know is destined to be hurtful to other members of the family , who , in response , reciprocate with actions they know will cause even more distress . |
| 8 | At Orbec , twenty kilometres from Lisieux , is the Caneton , a restaurant which you know is going to be good as soon as you enter its doors — the smell is so appetizing — but it is small and not exactly unknown , so it is prudent to telephone for a table in advance . |
| 9 | If you have a good and close relationship with your mother you should be able to talk to her , but sometimes things are not even as straightforward as this , and if you are close to someone who you know is going to be upset or disappointed in you , it may be even harder to do . |
| 10 | Now the maximum number of engines you you 're going to have we know is going to be twenty five . |
| 11 | One of those situations when any publicity we get is bound to be bad . ’ |
| 12 | You would reach your market more economically in a women 's magazine where the percentage of readers who knit is known to be high . |
| 13 | ‘ We only meet about three times a term , ’ one drastically lean lady was telling him ; ‘ and the dates are always fixed well in advance so all you have to do is arrange to be free on that evening . ’ |
| 14 | Being open and honest about what you are thinking , how you are feeling and why you are doing whatever you are doing is deemed to be efficient and helpful because otherwise people waste precious time and energy trying to ‘ second guess ’ what you are up to . |
| 15 | The result of attention focusing is assumed to be that memory for situations in which a driver experienced risk will be concentrated on central information . |
| 16 | Badgers are quite rare in the Doncaster area , where digging and baiting is said to be rife . |
| 17 | Likewise , upgrading is going to be impossible . |
| 18 | Though the information given is believed to be correct , responsibility for it can not be accepted . |
| 19 | ‘ I think a lot of Canadians have been waiting with baited breath for several months wondering whether he will stay or go and I think the fact he 's leaving is going to be good for the country , ’ the deputy Liberal leader , Sheila Copps , said . |
| 20 | Mm he was on about it last night , he says well I think all we really need is to look at is two hundred pound up front , buy the equipment , couple of decent speakers , a graphic equalizer and the twin deck tapers |
| 21 | If the statement he makes is found to be true it will not be defamatory ( see Justification below ) . |
| 22 | Since remote sensing data sets ( especially those pertaining to terrestrial areas of the globe ) typically need much pre-processing to calibrate , transform and then perform an inference process and hence convert measurements of the radiation reflected or emitted by small areas of ground into useful ( e.g. land cover ) data , the processing power required is going to be formidable . |
| 23 | Demands to bring forward the age of retirement come to the fore ; for older people to continue working is seen to be selfish , depriving younger people of opportunity . |
| 24 | Material written in the hope or the expectation that it will be published is going to be different from material that is never expected to be read by anyone other than the author and perhaps a close friend . |