Example sentences of "and is [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 What is thus left unstated forms the normal background or context of statements of legal validity and is thus said to be ‘ presupposed ’ by them .
2 The interval between two events P 1 and P 2 with coordinate separation ( ) is defined to be and is easily shown to be invariant under Lorentz transformations .
3 Managers are members of the company pension scheme , which allows for retirement at 60 and is generally recognized to be reasonably generous .
4 For example , the RVH creche costs £35 per week per child and is generally seen to be ‘ only for children of professionals ’ .
5 A valve , or vacuum tube , looks like a typical electric light bulb , it requires a large amount of power for its operation , generates a considerable amount of heat and is generally found to be unreliable in operation .
6 It is successful where temperate zone type methods are not , and is generally held to be the most efficient in terms of soil recovery .
7 The legislation makes some attempt to list circumstances in which consent will not be regarded as present , but the list is short and is not intended to be comprehensive .
8 He underwent a manipulative operation on his neck yesterday and is not expected to be fit .
9 Zanardi , who partners Johnny Herbert , is still recovering from his huge practice shunt at Spa-Francorchamps in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix and is not expected to be given the go-ahead to race .
10 iv Comedian or mascot : This child , often the youngest of the family , is treated as a pet and is not meant to be bothered by " serious " matters .
11 The extreme form of participant observation — what I have called the ‘ complete participant ’ — is , in fact , typified by the spy , who is believed by members of the group to be a genuine member of that group and is not known to be an observer at all .
12 PGL is not , in itself , an illness and is not thought to be a sign of impending illness .
13 In the film version , Peter Sellers played the role of the simpleton gardner who repeats ( in a slow , almost meditative style ) what other people say to him , and is thereby thought to be highly perceptive .
14 McHale is an admirer of York City 's out-of-favour keeper Chris Marples and is also thought to be keen on City midfielder Sean Reid .
15 If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner .
16 Built in 1814 , it is 72 feet high , and is often said to be the tallest windmill in the country , though that honour properly belongs to a tower mill at Sutton ( q.v. ) in Norfolk .
17 ‘ Great Expectations ’ was one of his last three novels and was published in 1861 , and is often considered to be his greatest novel .
18 He was subsequently returned to Khartoum for medical treatment and is now believed to be back in Kober prison .
19 HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology .
20 Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it was trying with NT , and is now thought to be unlikely to go with the $99 price .
21 Insulin-dependent diabetes is the most severe form of the disease , and is now considered to be an auto-immune disorder in which the cells of the pancreas responsible for producing insulin ( the beta-cells ) are destroyed by the body 's immune system .
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