Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [verb] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An estimate of how well the non-crystallographic fivefold symmetry is conserved has been made by applying an exact fivefold rotation for a given atom and determining the r.m.s.d. from the observed positions . |
| 2 | A different type of biologically engineered pest control is claimed to have been effected through a free-living soil bacteria . |
| 3 | The pseudotachylite is considered to have been formed in places as molten material , by heat generated from frictional sliding along the thrust plane . |
| 4 | Through Christ , who was and is God , it is considered to have been revealed to us what is God 's will . |
| 5 | Generally service is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 ) . |
| 6 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 7 | Service is deemed to have been effected on the date of the certificate ( Ord 7 , r 11 ) . |
| 8 | Unless the contrary intention appears , property bought with money belonging to the firm is deemed to have been bought on account of the firm . |
| 9 | s21 Unless the contrary intention appears , property bought with money belonging to the firm is deemed to have been bought on account of the firm . |
| 10 | A successive fixed date summons is deemed to have been issued on the date of the original summons ( Ord 7 , r 19(3) ) . |
| 11 | WE can see from the definition of a tackle that : ‘ If the ball carrier is on one knee , or both knees , or is sitting on the ground or is on top of another player who is on the ground , the ball carrier is deemed to have been brought to ground ’ . |
| 12 | In 891/1486 , when Bayezid II built his medrese in Amasya , he stipulated that the muftis of Amasya should act as muderris , a condition which is reported to have been observed without exception until 1033/1623–4 , and with a few exceptions until 1084/1673–4 when the two offices were finally separated . |
| 13 | Mehmed II is reported to have been hurt by the fact that Hocazade appeared to prefer high rank to his company . |
| 14 | This aircraft is reported to have been shipped to an East Coast workshop where work is currently under way with a view to making it fly again . |
| 15 | It is reported to have been used for surveillance of the United Unionist Action Council strike headquarters in May 1977 together with an infinity bug in a newlyinstalled telephone in a committee room . |
| 16 | The level at which stamp duty is imposed has been lifted to £60,000 , which should save homebuyers at the lower end of the market an average £600 . |
| 17 | While a beneficiary of Aethelwealh 's patronage , however , Wilfrid is said to have been sought as a spiritual father by Caedwalla ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 42 ) . |
| 18 | Historians say that Anerley Station was named after a villa owned by a Scots merchant and meaning ‘ Lonely ’ and the area is said to have been developed between 1853 and 1858 . |
| 19 | Perrier 's source of Vergeze in southern France is said to have been discovered by Hannibal in the year 218BC . |
| 20 | Though it has been suggested that Cynddylan may have been among Penda 's British allies at the Winwaed , there is no direct evidence for this , but when Penda attacked Oswiu in the mid-650s he is said to have been supported by British kings ( HB ch. 64 ) , principal among whom was Cadafael ap Cynfedw , king of Gwynedd ( HB ch. 65 ) . |
| 21 | Some are hazardous : for example , nitrates and radon , which is said to have been regarded as an invigorating tonic in some Italian mineral water . |
| 22 | A younger Callisthenes quoted as an authority on Gaul by Ps. -Plutarch , De fluviis 6.1 ( Jacoby , no. 291 , 5 ) is said to have been born in southern Italy , that is , in territory under Roman control . |
| 23 | On top of that , Taylor is said to have been determined from the outset to exert his authority and not to be overshadowed by superstars . |
| 24 | The positive test is said to have been given after the Lievin race on 13 February which saw Narozhilenko , the world 100m hurdles champion in Tokyo in 1991 , begin an extraordinary record-breaking sequence at 60m hurdles . |
| 25 | The Emperor is supposed to have considered giving up the Province , and Seneca , who , as one of his advisers was well informed , is said to have been calling in his , or the Imperial , loans . |
| 26 | It is said to have been built without nails , bolts , dowels or other fixings to a design by Newton , but to have been bolted together following its dismantling by drunken students who were unable , when sober , to reverse their vandalism ! |
| 27 | It is said to have been built as a smock mill but later , after a period as a dwelling house , changed to a tower mill and made higher . |
| 28 | IBM top brass is said to have been meeting with Hewlett-Packard officials at various locations around the US over the last few days to lobby for their support and an announcement may now be imminent . |
| 29 | Shortly before he became bishop of Lindisfarne , Cuthbert is said to have been asked by Aelfflaed , abbess of Whitby and daughter of Oswiu and Eanflaed , who would succeed her brother ( who had no son ) . |
| 30 | No one will explain why he should have had a turtle-shell to lie in instead of some more orthodox cradle , but during the anti-monarchical excesses of the French Revolution this venerable carapace is said to have been saved from destruction by a naturalist of Pau , who was able to switch it for one without any such incriminatory associations from his own collection . |