Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goran now plays his futba in Turkey ( where money is rumoured to be good ) |
| 2 | Even in such classic areas as the Mississippi delta , where sediment is thought to be accumulating rapidly , there is plenty of evidence to suggest that , after building up for a while , much of it is carried away again . |
| 3 | I am aware — and so are local social workers — of at least one large housing estate in a provincial town where incest is thought to be the norm rather than the exception even today ; and such is the difficulty of its location and proof that cases coming to light are probably only the tip of an iceberg . |
| 4 | It is clear that where service is required to be effected in a Contracting State , the provisions of the convention , as given effect in national law or as a self-executing Treaty , will prevail over the general law as to service of process . |
| 5 | However where demand is known to be variable , for example if a large share of output is exported , any major internal expansion carries the danger of periodic over-capacity with consequent higher average costs just as the market is weakest . |
| 6 | The Gooding-Sanken company will be located at Aberaman in the Cynon Valley where unemployment is estimated to be 21 per cent — the highest in south Wales . |
| 7 | Police reported no new congestion on roads , although traffic was expected to be heavier because of the rain . |
| 8 | This was clearly identified in the consensus statement from the King 's Fund : ‘ Until teaching is recognised to be an important professional activity ( comparable in status to clinical service , research and management ) it is unrealistic to expect those involved to devote the necessary time and effort to planning and implementing any new curriculum . ’ |
| 9 | Plainly , any questions about sex or gender are necessarily non-philosophical , if philosophy is taken to be conceptual analysis in this narrow sense . |
| 10 | If empiricism is claiming to be the study of the observable and explicable , then it is no more than behaviourism returned , vampire-like , to seek new life in the fear-ridden haunted village of modern academia . |
| 11 | Shareholders are right to wonder whether , if business is going to be that good , it should be they rather than their managers who make the killing . |
| 12 | If price is thought to be a significant factor in the product 's success , then the manufacturer should only deal with distributors who are willing to agree a mark-up and selling price with the manufacturer . |
| 13 | If penicillin was going to be tried in man , how on earth was enough going to be made ? |
| 14 | If television is going to be with you , you will need to arrange stronger lights on the key focal points — you would do well to get a set of four ‘ redheads ’ ( 800 watt TV lights ) . |
| 15 | If competition is perceived to be open , the ‘ rules ’ are seen to be fair , and the determinants of success are within the competitors ' control , competition can be extremely fruitful . |
| 16 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 17 | Cosla complained it had no extra resources to meet the requirement , and suggested the registers would be unworkable , raising complicated questions of liability if land was found to be contaminated . |
| 18 | But this one , standing before me in her underwear , was immediately possessable , if possession means the same thing as physical penetration , or if possession is something you measure by its financial cost , and if possession is acknowledged to be temporary , a leasehold , an object you lose or abandon . |
| 19 | Unless toplessness is going to be the next feature of your act . ’ |
| 20 | They have been exempted from certain reporting requirements by my Department under the companies legislation , and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer put a lot of measures in last year 's Budget to improve the position of small businesses , because tax is revealed to be one of their most noticeable problems when they reply to our consultations . |
| 21 | In the small nursery class , contact was frequent and speaking face-to-face was preferred , so they held a special coffee morning for parents and families ( with a creche provided , since baby-minding was known to be a problem ) . |
| 22 | Again , since truth is held to be individual and also fallible , rulership will be both conditional and also temporary ; because clearly the views as to what is true and therefore proper for government to act upon will change from time to time as opinion fluctuates amongst the body of the people . |
| 23 | On the basis of their findings , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) put forward the suggestion that latent inhibition derives from a loss of effectiveness by the specific cues that characterize the CS ( and thus requires pre-exposure to that very stimulus ) , whereas neophobia is taken to be a reaction to the aversive properties of novelty per se and can be attenuated by prior exposure to any other novel event ( see also Braveman 1978 ) . |
| 24 | However , since the Glasgow study began 18 months earlier than the Wirral survey , and since prevalence was estimated to be on the increase , it is possible that the rate of known opioid use in Glasgow exceeded that in Wirral by 1984–5 . |
| 25 | A downturn is expected in 1993 since activity is anticipated to be lower as the company does not expect these contracts to be repeated . |
| 26 | , The NRC ordered the indefinite shutdown of the Sequoyah Fuels plant in Gore , Oklahoma , after uranium was found to be leaking into the ground . |
| 27 | LESTER Piggott 's chances of renewing his famous Derby partnership with Vincent O'Brien increased yesterday as Fatherland was reported to be making good progress from injury . |
| 28 | well — as seen on sky norwich' disallowed goal was even more doubtful — strach — was — offside ( but not interfering with play ) — kind of like the goal that lorimer ‘ scored ’ against Bayern Munich way back then when bremner was judged to be offside . |
| 29 | Though gastrin is recognised to be the main mediator of meal stimulated acid secretion , the effect of H pylori on acid secretion remains unclear . |
| 30 | Though gastrin is considered to be the main mediator of food stimulated acid secretion , its role in the regulation of basal acid output is unclear . |