Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration . |
| 2 | The Government had two objectives : first to improve the country 's relations with the Community , damaged by years of squabbling over the Community 's demonstrably unfair agricultural and budgetary mechanisms , which had severely disadvantaged Britain , and , second , to fulfil what was understood to be the explicit goal of the Treaty of Rome , the establishment of a free trade zone based upon economic co-operation between member states . |
| 3 | Rational techniques were introduced to try to solve what were perceived to be problems at the time . |
| 4 | To repeat what is known to be shared knowledge , ‘ things as they were before ’ , flouts Grice 's maxim of quantity . |
| 5 | Witnesses said armed soldiers kept up an overnight siege at Kinshasa 's People 's Palace conference centre because the notes used to pay them are said to be cursed and are almost impossible to spend . |
| 6 | The boys in the prowl-car had been sent to investigate what was believed to be a burst of machine-gun fire — I could confirm that it was — and had called on Rico and the Battler to pull up . |
| 7 | A further specialized module , scheduled for docking in March 1990 , was intended to complete what was designed to be a multipurpose orbital complex for enhanced research in the fields of astrophysics , space biology , medicine and technology and the investigation of the Earth 's natural resources . |
| 8 | Precisely they drew on what was common knowledge ( that is to say what was believed to be knowledge ) in their day . |
| 9 | After the Sun changes signs on the 20th , it will immediately begin to make what is considered to be a disturbing aspect to Pluto in Scorpio . |
| 10 | In all of these cases special considerations , which I have elaborated , serve to limit what is thought to be appropriate treatment ; but in none of them do we consult the recipient 's point of view , for there is no such view to be had . |
| 11 | In contrast , the gigantic photographic images depicting what the curator Jeffrey Deitch has called our Strange Developments act to bludgeon what is assumed to be our jaded sensibilities , but more obviously demonstrate the burn out of a certain faction of the mid Atlantic artworld , curators and buyers . |