Example sentences of "and is [adv] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schofield has already had cause to caution Montgomerie — in 1991 — and yesterday he said : ‘ He is a fine golfer and is clearly going to be a major figure in the game for as long as he remains active in it , but he has to be able to take it on the chin . |
| 2 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Managers are members of the company pension scheme , which allows for retirement at 60 and is generally recognized to be reasonably generous . |
| 6 | For example , the RVH creche costs £35 per week per child and is generally seen to be ‘ only for children of professionals ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is successful where temperate zone type methods are not , and is generally held to be the most efficient in terms of soil recovery . |
| 9 | He flights the ball well and is already proving to be a master in disguising the googly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The treaty has been signed , sealed and is just waiting to be delivered . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Great Expectations ’ was one of his last three novels and was published in 1861 , and is often considered to be his greatest novel . |
| 16 | The wisdom of not proceeding simultaneously very much depends on the condition of the property market at the time and is inevitably going to be a gamble . |
| 17 | He was subsequently returned to Khartoum for medical treatment and is now believed to be back in Kober prison . |
| 18 | Susan Hyland joined the British Foreign Service , while Anne McGivern survived the torturous B.C.L. programme and is now training to be a barrister in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | But erm , yes , so I still do n't know what 's happening with that yet , and I 'm waiting also for them to confirm a date for this first sort of Do Business in France seminar , that we 're going to help them with , which was originally going to be February , and is now going to be March . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Largue was an apprentice turner but because of his injuries is now unable to lift heavy objects and is now retraining to be an electronic engineer . |
| 23 | 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 . |