Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [verb] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rape is only held to have been committed in English law where the sexual intercourse is ‘ unlawful ’ , and it is generally assumed that the function of that term is to remove non-consensual intercourse between a man and his wife from the ambit of rape . |
| 2 | This is generally thought to have been done deliberately , to improve drainage in the days before clay and now plastic field drains . |
| 3 | In England the chapel was fully manned in the time of Edward the Confessor ( though the title ‘ chancellor ’ is generally thought to have been instituted by the Normans ) . |
| 4 | D , which now forms part of British Library ( BL ) MS Cotton Tiberius B iv , and is usually thought to have been produced in either Worcester or York , may date from little if at all before 1100 . |
| 5 | For example , a company which has given a preference to a person connected with the company is rebuttably presumed to have been influenced by a desire to prefer that person . |
| 6 | Part of a coffee grinder is also understood to have been found in the house along with newspapers dating back to the beginning of May . |
| 7 | The RSC is working with the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) and the Department of Employment to develop the Indicative register of analytical chemists into a NVQ at level V. The RSC is also contributing to work being undertaken by employer organisations to develop other NVQs , mainly at levels I to III . |
| 8 | SBus performance is also claimed to have been increased 25% . |
| 9 | The squad is also reported to have been ordered to take a 10 per cent wage cut to cover falling gates . |
| 10 | However , he is now said to have been becalmed by his current companion , Miss Nina Huang Peterson who has nicknamed him ‘ Thumper after the character in Bambi ’ . |
| 11 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 12 | It 's well proven having been shipped since nineteen eighty seven but provides new advanced technology with the new System Ten release . |
| 13 | 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 ) ) . |
| 14 | The dynastic change from Tudors to Stuarts in 1603 is sometimes said to have been accompanied by a shift from optimism to gloom , and Bacon certainly took an unusually sober approach . |
| 15 | Modern science , which is commonly held to have been given its philosophical base by Descartes , has nearly always presupposed precisely this kind of dualistic contrast between objective matter and introspective mind . |