Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [vb pp] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distinctive facade of an Edwardian warehouse is set to be the focal point of a magnificent new office and retail development in Chelsea . |
| 2 | Faulty circulation is thought to be the root cause of the disorder . |
| 3 | The cell is said to be the remains of an ancient Carthaginian temple . |
| 4 | The chapter is thought to be the first on this subject in a text of this type . |
| 5 | And at 5 ft 3 inches long , the car is believed to be the biggest sculpture of its kind in the world . |
| 6 | The force is reported to be the largest of its kind and is expected to become the prototype for other parts of the country with high-tech industry . |
| 7 | They have found that algae are thriving on nutrients from sewage , farm runoff and factory waste : when they die they drift to the bottom and consume the available oxygen ; water hyacinths clog the shallows , reducing the light and oxygen reaching the area where many of the native fish species live ; in the past the fish acted as a check on the algae , but more than 400 species have disappeared in recent years ; one culprit is considered to be the Nile perch , a large fish introduced in the 1950s . |
| 8 | Further delays could have a serious effects on Army plans to introduce a fleet of gunship anti-tank helicopters , for which the long range Trigat is intended to be the primary weapon . |
| 9 | With step-by-step diagrams and photography plus an A to Z listing of garden plants , plant propagation is said to be the cheapest way of getting a well-stocked garden . |
| 10 | The Mercier portrait is reckoned to be the earliest , and in many respects the most interesting likeness of Handel in London . |
| 11 | It is important to remember that if one act is held to be the sole cause of the damage and that act is one of the plaintiff , then the plaintiff will recover nothing . |
| 12 | However , receptive anal intercourse is shown to be the riskiest sexual behaviour . |
| 13 | This may provide another justification for the anthropic principle , for if all the histories are possible , then so long as we exist in one of the histories , we may use the anthropic principle to explain why the universe is found to be the way it is . |
| 14 | The active ingredient in garlic is thought to be the compound alliin . |
| 15 | A large circular flat stone on the green is said to be the remains of the market cross . |
| 16 | Their origin is thought to be the east Mediterranean and if the majority were being imported into Kent very few were allowed to pass further . |
| 17 | The quintessential form of the latter type is taken to be the blues . |
| 18 | Th that that circle is got to be the inside of the ring not the outside |
| 19 | The second period mean of the vacancy-wage distribution is taken to be the same as the first period mean adjusted for wage growth and inflation in the economy as a whole . |
| 20 | Thus , when pain is seen to arise within the counselling process , counselling is thought to be the cause . |
| 21 | God 's way of salvation is shown to be the same throughout the ages : men respond in faith to his initiative in grace . |
| 22 | Another consequence is seen to be the lower degree of legal regulation of industrial relations in Britain compared with countries where the labour movement developed in the context of a strong state ( see Bean 1985 : ch. 5 for a summary of the literature ) . |
| 23 | This double vision of the woman-goddess is said to be the mainspring of Shakespeare 's tragedies . |
| 24 | Today 's move is expected to be the conclusion of a bitter struggle for control of the group . |
| 25 | For each n the coefficient is defined to be the n'th coefficient in the approximation to degree 4 by a series of Legendre polynomials . |
| 26 | The HD-DOMS-to-Objectstore interface is claimed to be the first Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant interface available commercially and provides a shared repository for object types , object methods , and the instances of those objects . |
| 27 | For any symmetric section , one possibility being a section of the form of figure 9.14(a) with , the two iterative impedances are equal and the common impedance is said to be the characteristic impedance as stated earlier . |
| 28 | Although the Victorian era is considered to be the great age of plant collectors , the ancient Egyptians recorded plant collecting expeditions in their hieroglyphics . |
| 29 | The survivor in the haulage business is deemed to be the licence holder if within two months he notifies the licensing authority of the event and within four months applies for a new O licence . |
| 30 | The expulsion of the adult worm population is considered to be the consequence of an immediate-type hypersensitivity reaction to antigens derived from the developing larvae . |