Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [vb pp] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Islington , Southwark , Camden and Hounslow were thought to be in the bag . |
| 2 | Animal production in the Auvergne is estimated to be worth 4,700 million FF Per annum . |
| 3 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 4 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 5 | It was 17th October and Balliol was known to be on the move . |
| 6 | Furthermore , ICC chairman Sir Colin Cowdrey is known to be in favour of the World Cup returning to England , where it was first staged in 1975 , 1979 and 1983 , on a rotational basis . |
| 7 | However , ICC chairman Sir Colin Cowdrey is known to be in favour of the competition returning to England , where it was first staged in 1975 , 1979 and 1983 . |
| 8 | The Rutland jurors again asserted that King John , who seems to have been cast by popular tradition as the villain of the piece , had afforested the greater part of the forest in that country , whereas it seems in fact to have been a creation of Henry I. In Exmoor , the Buckinghamshire part of Bernwood , Cumberland , Worcestershire and Wiltshire the perambulations of 1300 demanded more extensive disafforestments than ever before : more than half the forest area that remained in England was declared to be outside the ancient bounds . |
| 9 | On 5 June he is said to have ignored a request from a Catholic merchant for protection for his family in the Mansion House ; and he stirred himself only when the Bank of England was reported to be in the mob 's sights . |
| 10 | As recently as January , the bank 's bid for the heart of England was reported to be in difficulties with the regulatory authorities . |
| 11 | LATE summer sightseers flocking to the famous Antrim Coast Road are warned to be on the alert for stone-throwers . |
| 12 | Now new owner Chris Knight is reported to be in financial difficulties . |
| 13 | Mrs Robinson is scheduled to be in Britain from Wednesday to Friday , and is likely to see the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Thursday . |
| 14 | Until the 1980s the killing of 2000 or so pilot whales each year in the Faroe Islands was considered to be of far less significance than the slaughter of tens of thousands of the much rarer great whale species . |
| 15 | Col. Iafai Camara was reported to be under house arrest in November [ see p. 37842 ] , but charges were reported to have been dropped and he remained in post . |
| 16 | According to one source I 've spoken to , when this area was constructed a full crescent was exactly what Loraine Crescent was intended to be with no through road into Hammond Drive . |
| 17 | Following the trial Walsh was reported to be considering forcing North and Poindexter to testify before a grand jury in order to determine if there were others within the Reagan administration who had made false statements to Congress but had not yet been charged . |
| 18 | Rory Finegan was reported to be considering going to the European Court . |
| 19 | After suffering serious losses , Onoue was reported to be on the verge of bankruptcy with debts of 410,000 million yen . |
| 20 | Soon two-thirds of the activists of the Provisional IRA in Ulster were reported to be in prison either awaiting trial or convicted . |
| 21 | Except where a delay or derogation was allowed under the Directive — and the UK had now also accepted that its grounds for derogation had all along been invalid — ‘ all supplies of drinking water in the United Kingdom were required to be in compliance with the Directive by 20 July ’ . |
| 22 | Telepoint offers one-way telephone services and PCN is expected to be like an affordable cellular radio , so the need for paging seems dubious . |
| 23 | of river water in the United Kingdom is judged to be of a good or very high standard is something of which I am enormously proud . |
| 24 | The first test match in South Africa was expected to be against India , which proposed South Africa 's membership . |
| 25 | Palestine was meant to be to the south , beyond Golan , on the West Bank , in Gaza , in Israel itself . |
| 26 | The Maldives was judged to be at particular risk due to its composition of low-lying coral islands and atolls . |
| 27 | Next I proceed to what may be called conservative Christologies , Christologies in which the maleness of Christ is said to be of the very essence of Christology . |
| 28 | President Bob Palmer is expected to be among those fielding questions which should get pretty pointed . |
| 29 | The N.E.B.E. have decided that they will ONLY accept applications if the Students have achieved a pass mark of 60% in the End of Module Tests.This is felt to be in the best interests of both Students and Tutors since they do form 25% of the final Written Examination Marks . |
| 30 | Ambulance Service paramedic Brian Moss is said to be in a comfortable condition in hospital ; the ambulance driver , Glyn Day , has already been discharged . |