Example sentences of "[conj] is [adv] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may often be sure that we can judge by the quality of the drawing or painting , but there are always at least some cases in which our uncertainty is deepened by the absence of the expected signal , that it is or is not intended to be art . |
| 2 | The thrust of the above arguments is the suggestion that there is , or is widely believed to be , a trade-off between efficiency and equity whose precise form is unknown . |
| 3 | If you do n't know what 's true , or what 's meant to be true , then the value of what is n't true , or is n't meant to be true , becomes diminished . |
| 4 | But for /Ε/ , the short variant can be a low vowel ( [ a , ae ] ) and the long variant is a mid vowel that is easily heard to be qualitatively distinct . |
| 5 | In no circumstances whatsoever will there be any admission that the real basic cause of the failure is the one that is most feared to be true . |
| 6 | Why space-time should be four-dimensional is a question that is normally considered to be outside the realm of physics . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Is Chemical Dependency a real disease and should Doctors waste valuable time on something that is usually considered to be self induced ? |
| 9 | Proportional representation in Parliament might translate into disproportionate power in government in a way that would make the established first-past-the-post inequalities look rather more fair than is often seen to be the case . |
| 10 | What is thus left unstated forms the normal background or context of statements of legal validity and is thus said to be ‘ presupposed ’ by them . |
| 11 | The interval between two events P 1 and P 2 with coordinate separation ( ) is defined to be and is easily shown to be invariant under Lorentz transformations . |
| 12 | Managers are members of the company pension scheme , which allows for retirement at 60 and is generally recognized to be reasonably generous . |
| 13 | For example , the RVH creche costs £35 per week per child and is generally seen to be ‘ only for children of professionals ’ . |
| 14 | A valve , or vacuum tube , looks like a typical electric light bulb , it requires a large amount of power for its operation , generates a considerable amount of heat and is generally found to be unreliable in operation . |
| 15 | It is successful where temperate zone type methods are not , and is generally held to be the most efficient in terms of soil recovery . |
| 16 | The legislation makes some attempt to list circumstances in which consent will not be regarded as present , but the list is short and is not intended to be comprehensive . |
| 17 | He underwent a manipulative operation on his neck yesterday and is not expected to be fit . |
| 18 | Zanardi , who partners Johnny Herbert , is still recovering from his huge practice shunt at Spa-Francorchamps in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix and is not expected to be given the go-ahead to race . |
| 19 | iv Comedian or mascot : This child , often the youngest of the family , is treated as a pet and is not meant to be bothered by " serious " matters . |
| 20 | The extreme form of participant observation — what I have called the ‘ complete participant ’ — is , in fact , typified by the spy , who is believed by members of the group to be a genuine member of that group and is not known to be an observer at all . |
| 21 | PGL is not , in itself , an illness and is not thought to be a sign of impending illness . |
| 22 | In the film version , Peter Sellers played the role of the simpleton gardner who repeats ( in a slow , almost meditative style ) what other people say to him , and is thereby thought to be highly perceptive . |
| 23 | McHale is an admirer of York City 's out-of-favour keeper Chris Marples and is also thought to be keen on City midfielder Sean Reid . |
| 24 | If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner . |
| 25 | Built in 1814 , it is 72 feet high , and is often said to be the tallest windmill in the country , though that honour properly belongs to a tower mill at Sutton ( q.v. ) in Norfolk . |
| 26 | ‘ Great Expectations ’ was one of his last three novels and was published in 1861 , and is often considered to be his greatest novel . |
| 27 | He was subsequently returned to Khartoum for medical treatment and is now believed to be back in Kober prison . |
| 28 | HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology . |
| 29 | Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it was trying with NT , and is now thought to be unlikely to go with the $99 price . |
| 30 | Insulin-dependent diabetes is the most severe form of the disease , and is now considered to be an auto-immune disorder in which the cells of the pancreas responsible for producing insulin ( the beta-cells ) are destroyed by the body 's immune system . |