Example sentences of "[verb] is [vb pp] [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 | Whatever he says is bound to be controversial , though that does not matter as long as it is not provocative . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One of those situations when any publicity we get is bound to be bad . ’ |
| 7 | You would reach your market more economically in a women 's magazine where the percentage of readers who knit is known to be high . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Badgers are quite rare in the Doncaster area , where digging and baiting is said to be rife . |
| 10 | Though the information given is believed to be correct , responsibility for it can not be accepted . |
| 11 | If the statement he makes is found to be true it will not be defamatory ( see Justification below ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |