Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [am/are] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That feeling that you are not where you are meant to be . |
| 2 | The Child Protection Register provides a central record of all children in a given area who have been identified as abused , or who are considered to be at risk of abuse , and who therefore are currently the subject of an interagency plan to protect them . |
| 3 | Where we are held to be contracting carriers for the purposes of air or sea carriage please note that our liability is limited in the manner provided by relevant international conventions , ‘ special contract ’ with Governments or UK statute law . |
| 4 | It is possible to compare lung cancer death rates across countries , sexes , classes , etc. , where there are known to be smoking differences . |
| 5 | Where there are very many known alternatives , or there are known to be currently unimaginable possibilities , the ability of people to make detailed plans for the future is limited , given bounded rationality . |
| 6 | The effect of trees on foundation design was discussed earlier but a physical inspection of the site should include the location of all major trees , particularly where they are required to be retained under a tree preservation order and may therefore affect layout and density . |
| 7 | If you do manage to overcome this one , the next problem is to simulate the migratory tendencies of moving upstream to fresher waters where they are reported to be pelagic egg-layers . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm a sister , so I 'm bound to be a dragon . ’ |
| 9 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 10 | Organizations like this are not good at remembering the things you have done well and if , as most of us are , you are at the bottom of the pile , you will find that you are considered to be alternately either the best thing since sliced bread , or a liability to the organization . |
| 11 | ‘ Miss Honey tells me that you are meant to be clever , too ! |
| 12 | More generally , the fact that literary studies is sometimes thought of as a general training in thinking and writing means that you are expected to be able to control how you write — in particular , that you are able consistently to use a particular appropriate register . |
| 13 | This means that we are seen to be thinking with our partner rather than thinking against them . |
| 14 | Although there are bound to be difficulties in comparing different ages and periods , such as different definitions of crime , different measuring techniques and a lack of adequate records and poor communications in previous times , an impression of the style and extent of crime — and of the popular concern about it — can nevertheless be formed . |
| 15 | Industrial sites are so massive , having grown over many years without appropriate control , so that there are bound to be deficiencies and we aim to have them put right as soon as practicable . |
| 16 | We 're not just playing a weekend game , but working five or six days a week , so there are bound to be problems of mental fatigue and photographers become stale and burned out . |
| 17 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
| 18 | The only difference between railways and the other utilities is that they are precieved to be costing the exchequer money , not providing revenue to it . |
| 19 | Other aspects of the grammar and phonology of these sentences ( from different speakers ) make it clear that they are intended to be " Patois " . |
| 20 | Agreement with the objectives will help to ensure that they are seen to be important and that activity will be directed towards their achievement . |
| 21 | Quite apart from the fact that they are bound to be different something approaching 60% of the basic functions will be identical ; loading , saving , printing , editing , type selection , etc . |
| 22 | There is not much comfort for the museum in the knowledge that celebrated works are impossible to fence ; the idiosyncratic choice of stolen works strongly suggests that one buyer 's taste was being followed and that they are destined to be hidden away in a private collection , possibly in South America or Japan . |
| 23 | The habit of mind which opposes family and state , and which gives the family a special position in the organization of a polity , is not solely Libyan : strongly étatique societies have often tried to abolish or limit the institution of the family ; and the attempts by government to regulate family life by intervening to increase or to decrease births , by altering rules of inheritance , by inhibiting or encouraging kinship corporations , are so familiar that they are taken to be natural functions of the state . |
| 24 | Indeed , they are often considered to be so routine that they are taken to be ‘ normal ’ . |
| 25 | Often the attraction of broader approaches like counselling is that they are thought to be able to tackle many massive problems at the same time . |
| 26 | The modules remain online until such time that they are requested to be offlined again , at which time they are simply deleted from online storage . |
| 27 | Other clauses are subject to a test of reasonableness , and are enforceable only to the extent that they are shown to be reasonable . |
| 28 | It is said that his influence came through his extraordinary power , both learned and ‘ uncanny ’ , to rearrange suggestively the letters of the divine Name ( the Tetragrammaton : YHWH ) , which are so sacrosanct that they are considered to be unpronounceable . |
| 29 | Germans now are Europeans in a way they were not before , and indeed the demand of East Germans that they be allowed to be Europeans , with the same wide-ranging and unquestioned rights to travel , study , and residence as the rest of us was both a catalyst and an indication of how much things have changed . |
| 30 | Germans now are Europeans in a way they were not before , and indeed the demand of East Germans that they be allowed to be Europeans , with the same wide-ranging and unquestioned rights to travel , study , and residence as the rest of us was both a catalyst and an indication of how much things have changed . |