Example sentences of "[noun] and be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The driver , who was normally employed as a fitter , but had some driving experience with the Corporation , was acting as a relief driver and was found to be principally to blame for the accident , because of his lack of experience , which resulted in his letting the car take the curve at too great a speed and the conductor for applying the hand brake at his end so as to lock the wheels ; he had received no instruction on the proper procedure . |
| 32 | That scepticism and memory were to be important when he became an archbishop and was expected to be a leader in the organization . |
| 33 | They come from the space between the planets and are believed to be the remnants of matter that was used to form the Solar System . |
| 34 | An impressive amateur , the 1984 super-heavyweight Olympic champion , Biggs had won all 15 professional contests and was reckoned to be a considerable prospect in the division until he was overwhelmed by Tyson in Las Vegas on 16 October , 1987 . |
| 35 | It lives in large family groups and is said to be as shy as it is fearsome-looking . |
| 36 | They work six days a week or more , on no fixed terms , with no formal protection and are expected to be available all day long including late into the evening . |
| 37 | Furthermore , when horses , mules and donkeys are pastured together a horse foal may accidentally bond to a female mule and be thought to be her offspring . |
| 38 | That case is not affected by today 's decision and is expected to be heard at the end of May . |
| 39 | Lavender oil for instance is relaxing and antiseptic and will help heal spots , whilst neroli obtained from orange blossom works well on dry skin and is said to be an anti-depressant too . |
| 40 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 41 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 42 | A second area of made ground was present to the east of Langloan and was thought to be a backfilled clay borrow pit . |
| 43 | Last year Caradon bought the Everest double-glazing business from RTZ for £32m and was thought to be stalking further acquisitions . |
| 44 | The defendants had repaired the wheel shortly before the accident and were held to be manufacturers . |
| 45 | It 's been funded by people from the town and is thought to be the first project of its kind . |
| 46 | It is related to the development of a resurgent caldera to the south of Snowdon and is considered to be of late stage fumerolic origin as it predates the Caledonian deformation ( Reedman and others , 1985 ) . |
| 47 | Transport Secretary John MacGregor , MP for Norfolk South , has been approached by the family of Bondone of his constituents and is believed to be making his own contact with Sir Nicholas . |
| 48 | The motions which were chosen for debate all hovered marginally above the lowest common factor of Party opinion and were designed to be carried nem con . |
| 49 | Set amidst panoramic views of snow-capped mountains of up to 11,000 feet , the lake is one of earth 's outstanding features ; 400 miles long and up to 50 miles wide , its dazzling blue , crystal clear water is over a mile deep in places and is reckoned to be one fifth of the world 's supply of fresh water . |
| 50 | They built makeshift barricades against tank attacks and were reported to be forming " defence units " . |
| 51 | Maria Elena Aparicio was sentenced to seven years and is believed to be held in a women 's prison in Havana . |
| 52 | Rio de Janeiro has suffered several outbreaks of dengue in the past four years and is expected to be hit hardest by the new epidemic . |
| 53 | It will be composed of observers from Spain , West Germany and Canada and is scheduled to be deployed in the area by the end of the month . |
| 54 | These exemplars were chosen to reflect a range of different traffic situations within each junction and were intended to be representative of the full set of 28 films of each junction available from the drives in Study 1 . |
| 55 | Events seemed to be slipping away , voices were welling from the inside and were poised to be audible . |
| 56 | The grounds , 2000 acres of parkland , was designed by the famous Capability Brown which contains a large man-made lake crossed by the Grand Bridge designed by Vanbrugh and is reputed to be the finest bridge in Europe . |
| 57 | He had a reputation for being tough in the water and was alleged to be a champion of ‘ localism ’ — the attitude of resident surfers who guard their break jealously and resent the intrusion of outsiders . |
| 58 | The Cameroon line basaltic magmas have OIB-like isotopic compositions and are thought to be derived by melting of a fossil plume , the head of which became fractionated in U/Pb about 125Myr ago . |
| 59 | Hence , if the working fluid contains an indicator and is titrated to be close to the end-point of that indicator , the application of a voltage between a fine wire and some other point in the flow can produce a local colour change at the wire . |
| 60 | Ceausescu 's aim in issuing such a threat was probably to frighten Hungary , but Romania already has the delivery system in the form of Soviet built Scud missiles and is believed to be developing its own missile with the help of Egypt and Iraq . |