Example sentences of "[n mass] be [verb] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half of all aircraft are said to be inoperable and two thirds of all vessels are in port at any given time . |
| 2 | For intergroup comparison the data were assumed to be non-parametric and the Wilcoxon 's rank-sum comparison was used . |
| 3 | It also entitles observers from the State in which the aircraft is registered to be present at the inquiry if that State is not the State in which the accident occurs . |
| 4 | Heron is understood to be confident its rescheduling programme , backed by a mass of financial information contained in three volumes , will be accepted by bankers and bondholders . |
| 5 | Surely they only take place when the data 's known to be applicable to people . ’ |
| 6 | Fish are judged to be unfit for human consumption at just 2 ppm . |
| 7 | According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ . |
| 8 | A uni-processor design , with a peak of 150 MIPS is said to be scalable to 300 MIPS ‘ over time . ’ |
| 9 | The point is that working people are bound to be concerned about issues which can not be tackled effectively without central government involvement , issues such as mass unemployment , inflation , industrial decline , poverty , the social effects of government expenditure cuts . |
| 10 | About 1.7m people are reckoned to be unemployed in Vietnam , and the pay of 1.2m civil servants is stuck at an average of 80,000 dong ( $10 ) a month . |
| 11 | We saw in the main street the corpse of a woman already gnawed by dogs ( people are beginning to be afraid of dogs ) . |
| 12 | Look happy — other people are waiting to be friendly . |
| 13 | Such people are going to be disappointed with what follows , for I shall merely continue to look critically at some of the concepts to which she has given prominence . |
| 14 | I do n't think people are going to be disappointed if they miss out . |
| 15 | When you get to about 13 or 14 , you begin to realize that your colour , even if you had n't thought about it much , means that other people are going to be different to you . |
| 16 | There is an assumption behind all this that size does matter , which seems to be belied by the fact that IBM 's enormous $60,000m a year bulk has been unable to save the company — but IBM 's problems all arise from the fact that the company 's business is so hopelessly slewed to one sector of the market , with products that fewer and fewer people are going to be happy to own . |
| 17 | But I 'm aware that people are going to be suspicious of another band mixing guitars with dance beats . |
| 18 | One hundred and twenty people are thought to be dead and more than fifty are injured in what 's thought to be China 's worst air disaster . |
| 19 | They are unfit to look after such vulnerable people and some of the conditions these people are subjected to are appalling . ’ |
| 20 | When people are attempting to be different for the sake of it , I find it incredibly irritating . ’ |
| 21 | The overall facility is quietness and staff are trained to be unobtrusive . |
| 22 | Patients with stones of any composition , size and number contained in a thin walled gall bladder with a fasting volume greater than 15 ml were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 23 | The people were said to be lazy , their manner of living rustic . |
| 24 | The idea that older people should leave the labour force at some point gained ground in the earlier part of the twentieth century with the popularity of ideas about scientific management , which implied that older people were bound to be inefficient workers . |
| 25 | In conclusion , it does seem that some people were born to be fat , but are only able to be fat because of the relatively affluent society in which they live . |
| 26 | Plenty of other people were going to be dead before the night was out . |
| 27 | In February 1992 the government had introduced minimal safety-net welfare payments , for which some 7,400,000 people were estimated to be eligible . |
| 28 | These three reactive oxygen species are believed to be responsible for tissue injury . |
| 29 | Movement in such species is known to be due to turgor changes in the specialised hinge-like regions of the leaf , known as pulvini . |
| 30 | When Ps. lanisticola was first described by Dr Warren Burgess in 1976 , the hobby was in general not impressed , as the new species was said to be similar in appearance to livingstonii with the main difference being in the dentition . |