Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] to be [det] " in BNC.

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1 The idea that the features of a dialect which are accommodated to are those which are most salient , and that those which are most salient from the point of view of a LE speaker are just those which are most different from LE , fits perfectly with the observation that young black speakers in " chattin' Patois " are focusing on the Jamaican basilect — the variety which is most different from Standard .
2 Links with parents and with associated schools — which were reported to be few and far between — could have been developed in this situation .
3 Is this because the construction of racialized identities depends on the existence of the Other , while at the same time it is this ‘ alien presence ’ which is seen to be such a threat to identity that its total annihilation is required ?
4 that 's just they 're the people I 'm going to interview okay then you 've got example yesterday at approximately nine twenty Bacon 's technical college at went up in a barrage of smoke taking one life which is believed to be that of the caretaker who was having a last minute check before leaving the building in the evening .
5 An alternative to this view is that corporate managers use their expertise to help define and implement the broad purpose of the organization , which is assumed to be that of furthering the public interest .
6 Dominant values are upheld and dominant interests protected in the name of universal interests — in the child care case , in the cause of child welfare , which is assumed to be some kind of objectively assessable ‘ good thing ’ .
7 She was found to be several months pregnant when she returned and was forced to marry William Wright of Louth , a plumber and glazier , at Haxey on 13 October 1725 .
8 There are bound to be more protests against Flashman .
9 There are bound to be more attempts to rob bookies ’ premises if they are locking up at 10pm . ’
10 There are bound to be some tours which appeal to you .
11 There are bound to be some tears around the 4th and 10th but , with Jupiter in Libra for the first time in a decade , you can not allow yourself to be constrained any more .
12 There are bound to be some mains-operated or battery-powered items among the Christmas presents .
13 In a place like this there are bound to be some good seamstresses and Singers will surely have had their salesmen down here back in the days of the square-riggers .
14 Sportworld travel , which has handled five Olympic Games , says there are bound to be some complaints when dealing with such a large number of people .
15 William may or may not have been a rogue and charlatan ; there are said to be many such in Panama , which as a crossroads for the modern world radiates a special magnetism for crews of ne'er-do-wells .
16 There are said to be some mystic rivers one drop of which can steal a man 's life away .
17 In such activities , there are assumed to be some INVARIANT elements which have to be performed ( eg conforming to the rules of tennis ) , but that there are VARIANT ways in which the individual may perform them ( eg in choice of backhands , forehands , volleys ) .
18 In Sussex there are known to be some 43 sites of deserted medieval villages .
19 Praxis says it is well down the development road of getting an ANDF installer up on another RISC , possibly the Inmos Transputer , whilst there are known to be several other key players keen to get installers up and running on their kit too ( UX No 385 ) .
20 While television coverage has not been monitored in the same way as the press in this study , there seems an increasing focus in television on sexual cases where there are thought to be many victims .
21 In all there are thought to be some three-quarters of a million of them surviving .
22 And if you are ever going to see one of the genuine though attested rarities among the local fauna , a bear , a lynx , or an eagle , the Park is the only place you might do so , though there are thought to be fewer than twenty bears still living in the Pyrenees , and only eight pairs of eagles .
23 There are rumoured to be some hard men in town .
24 There were bound to be some who felt as Frank did .
25 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 ?
26 Cos every time you open that door there 's bound to be that 's stinking then !
27 It 's extremely doubtful that they will have been stored in ideal conditions , and even if they have , the ideal conditions of the timber yard do not correspond to those of your own home — there 's bound to be some shrinkage as they dry out in the higher temperatures .
28 There 's bound to be some rub-off , but I like to maintain a balance so that at least in one subject area of the school the children feel they can contribute something of themselves , and the work therefore becomes meaningful for them , as opposed to working from a set format , like an art school ; end-product , colour exercise and the rest of it .
29 There 's bound to be some in there , well there might not be , but
30 Now if children are unable to interpret the visual symbols and the written word , in order to make sense of them , there 's bound to be some reaction which will show itself in a sort of behavioural response which appears to be different from the responses we would receive from children who are able to interpret these words and symbols .
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