Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] be [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these traditional roles she is shown to be effective . |
| 2 | And with those computers they were bound to be receptive . ’ |
| 3 | Anti-English slanders they were held to be by the genteel Victorian travellers who continued to come to the Pyrenees . |
| 4 | In the parents ' houses the Dynmouth Hards crept upstairs and into bedrooms in which other people slept , considerate because in their homes they were required to be . |
| 5 | I know that 's the visiting times you 're allowed to be down there |
| 6 | In the darkness they seemed not the amusing and-loveable clowns they were meant to be but somehow menacing . |
| 7 | Compared to glassfibre boats they were said to be heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and , because they bent rather than broke , dangerous . |
| 8 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 9 | In those days it was estimated to be guarded by some three hundred Hezbollah fanatics and , despite being a single-storey construction , it was known to have several basement levels . |
| 10 | As a leading man in films he was expected to be nothing other than purely masculine . |
| 11 | So we know what sort of times we 're expected to be sort of selling raffle tickets and |
| 12 | In many situations it is felt to be inappropriate to worship God without an organ . |
| 13 | But then , as RSPB members we were bound to be biased ! |
| 14 | The object of the final analysis is to create a data set which contains , for each raster , the number of times it is simulated to be inside the areas resulting from the sequence of GIS operations . |
| 15 | Erm I ca n't tell you what time he 'll be home really erm well say in the twenty minutes he 's bound to be home cos he he 's been home and then he 's had to shoot out again , he 's gone to get the battery so he wo n't be long . |
| 16 | Further development of the programme and of the role of the Community Mother is possible , though within the present structures there is a danger that it could become a mere extension of the health services , with the Community Mother as a low-waged employee , losing voluntary status , altering motivation and reducing their effectiveness as change agents , becoming as Gill Walt concludes about Community Health Workers in many countries , ‘ just another pair of hands ’ rather than the change agents they were claimed to be . |
| 17 | Not only were the garotters thought to be visiting hot-blooded Neapolitan outrage upon English soil , but on other occasions they were said to be ‘ like the sanguinary fanatics of the French Revolution ’ as well as resembling the ‘ Indian ‘ thuggee' ’ ’ . |
| 18 | There was speculation that Soviet concern could extend to the possibility of missile attacks launched from any of the republics they were known to be located . |
| 19 | To the Nuer , god appears both as lofty and remote , though omnipotent , while sometimes approachable and near-at-hand : indeed on some occasions he is felt to be too close for comfort and is earnestly beseeched to withdraw his presence and leave his people in peace . |