Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Releasing on Nov. 15 its budget figures for 1991 , the government stated that it planned to increase spending by 22 per cent to the equivalent of US$499,000,000 and would face a fiscal deficit of $150,000,000 , only $91,000,000 of which could be expected to be covered by future loans . |
| 2 | Expenditure was budgeted at 10,100 million Comoros francs , with revenue of 8,500 million francs ; the shortfall was expected to be covered by French aid as in previous years . |
| 3 | Inspection and monitoring are expected to be done by mobile robots capable of pattern recognition . |
| 4 | An estimated US$1,500 million of this assistance , however , was expected to be absorbed by foreign debt service payments . |
| 5 | President Clinton last week announced a plan to add a new Clipper Chip in every government phone and computer line to prevent eavesdropping : the chip was developed by the US National Institute for Standards and Technology , and is expected to be used by commercial and private users as well ; to assure privacy , each chip containing the encryption devices would be assigned two unique keys that will be needed to decode messages ; according to the New York Times , they will be fabricated by Micotronx Inc , Torrance , California and VLSI Technology Inc , San Jose , and AT&T Co says it will incorporate the chip in its secure communications product line . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) It will be helpful if the announcement of the offer can coincide with positive public relations coverage for the offeror. ( 6 ) Ideally , a bid should not be announced at a time when it will have a reduced impact ( eg on a day which is expected to be dominated by other major financial news or company announcements ) . |
| 7 | Next week some laureates will take their campaign to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva , where their appeal is expected to be backed by other peace prize winners including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 8 | The anniversary of his coronation seemed destined to be marked by ignominious defeat . |
| 9 | This self-sustaining quality is said to be exemplified by current epistemologies . |
| 10 | Fordism is said to be characterized by high levels of mass production and work organized on standardized ( Taylorist ) lines , so that each element can be broken down , systematized and repeated . |
| 11 | Changes in social structure are said to be overdetermined by numerous contradictions . |
| 12 | Since it joined in 1980 Japan has listed only four sites for protection and one of these , Lake Utonai on the northern island of Hokkaido , is now said to be threatened by secret plans to build a 40-kilometre flood control canal . |
| 13 | In addition , social disruption and discontent are said to be fostered by temporary visitors , and ghost communities may be created out-of-season . |
| 14 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 15 | Differentials do exist between blue- and white-collar workers , but they appear to be narrower than in most Western companies , and they are seen to be justified by different educational qualifications . |
| 16 | Similarly , disabled persons needed to be enabled by appropriate technology . |
| 17 | During inhalation , the NO is absorbed by erythrocytes as they pass through the lungs and is thought to be inactivated by tight bonding to the haem , which is subsequently metabolised to methaemoglobin . |
| 18 | Our knowledge of all these sides of religious life at Canterbury at the time of the Conquest has had to be reconstructed by laborious scholarship , largely because Lanfranc turned a blind eye to every aspect of a native religious tradition . |
| 19 | By far the greatest part of maintenance research developed by institutions of state for marginal areas has been soil conservation techniques ( outlined in Ch. 5 ) , which , as this book shows , have had to be imposed by colonial powers to be ‘ induced ’ at all . |
| 20 | Additionally , the Plant Records System would have had to be rewritten by external consultants in a fourth-generation language such as Oracle , and minicomputer versions of specialist packages for Finance and the Library , which are more expensive than networked PC versions , would have had to be purchased and tailored to our specific requirements . |
| 21 | Traffic flows generally speeded up as highway improvements were carried out and congestion spots , often alleged to be caused by fixed-track trams , were removed . |
| 22 | Direct democracy has tended to be replaced by representative democracy , and political parties , pressure groups and others have sought to provide the information needed by the electorate . |
| 23 | By itself this might not be a bad thing , but elderly inmigration has tended to be accompanied by youthful outmigration , leading to a deteriorating age-sex structure . |
| 24 | Canton , Massachusetts-based Perception Technology Corp has agreed to be acquired by Brite Voice Systems Inc of Wichita , Kansas for about 3.35m new Brite Voice shares giving an indicated value of about $15.9m ; the combined companies would have had revenues in excess of $35m on a pro forma basis for fiscal 1992 . |
| 25 | The proposed development is contrary to the stated policy of the local planning authority where new dwellings in the countryside are normally resisted unless they can be shown to be justified by agricultural need . |
| 26 | This may be important as weight loss with accompanying reduction of blood pressure in obese non-diabetic hypertensives has been shown to be accompanied by reduced levels of plasma renin activity and aldosterone ( Tuck et al , 1981 ) . |
| 27 | The contract is scheduled to be completed by early summer . |
| 28 | The underground petrol tank was used as a mass grave for the bodies of those judged to be tainted by Western decadence . |
| 29 | Such amounts to a kind of agroforestry type of manipulation of the environment and is known to be practised by other groups , e.g. the Bora of the Peruvian Amazon . |
| 30 | Two of Britain 's remaining areas of lowland heath , and a coastal marsh used by thousands of migratory birds , have been found to be polluted by contaminated water leaking from neighbouring household rubbish dumps . |