Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] to be the " in BNC.

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1 It 's believed to be the second incident involving the same man in twenty four hours .
2 It 's reckoned to be the best method yet devised of keeping the body in good condition .
3 I think it 's bound to be the case
4 Well it 's meant to be the fucking opposite and it is the fucking opposite .
5 Los Altos , California-based Full Source Software Inc has begun shipping UniShred , a $150 suite of media erasure applications that irrevocably delete files and securely obliterate data in files , making any kind of retrieval impossible : it 's claimed to be the first Unix package to conform to the strictest government and commercial standards , directly replacing Unix 's rm utility .
6 Dragon racing uses skills learned from a two thousand year old legend … yet it 's claimed to be the fastest growing sport in Britain .
7 It 's thought to be the first time the species has been bred in captivity .
8 It is intended to be the first in a family of products — Amstrad suggests an A4 colour version for architects , a desktop feature-phone with pen-screen , and in-car version with built in CD that would project the user 's position on a map through data collected by global positioning satellite .
9 It is however a fundamental requirement of a review notice that it leaves the recipient in no doubt that it is intended to be the formal document invoking the landlord 's right to review the rent ( Schirlcar Properties Ltd v Heinitz ( 1983 ) 268 EG 362 ) .
10 It is said to be the most photographed village in Norway .
11 It is said to be the tree on which Judas Iscariot hanged himself , after which its pink blossom turned dark red in shame .
12 It is said to be the only tide mill in western Europe that is still operating .
13 Called Tickford Bridge , it is said to be the oldest iron bridge in Britain still in constant use .
14 It is said to be the longest-lived of the British dairy and dual-purpose breeds ; it is also hardy and with a low incidence of metabolic disease .
15 The agreement is also seen as a landmark in that it is said to be the first time that Apple has licensed Macintosh technology under such an OEM agreement , terms of which were not disclosed .
16 It is said to be the philosophy of government administrators , dangerous in their hands , corrupting treated as the basis of private morality .
17 It is said to be the smallest complete X Terminal design available , covering just under 50 square inches of broad space .
18 Dating from the seventeenth century , it is said to be the largest antique one-handed clock in existence .
19 His description of the group culminates in the famous formulation of the " perfect law of art " of which it is said to be the embodiment :
20 At this point , the DC is in state CREATED and the user who created it is said to be the ‘ associated user ’ .
21 This answer to the problem of overcrowding is not thought to need any further explanation because it is assumed to be the rational course of action : people saw that it was the only feasible thing to do , and acted accordingly .
22 It is believed to be the first time a developer has urged the Government to schedule an archaeological site .
23 It is believed to be the last living relic of the days when these islands were joined to Europe and the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine , where the same species of snail is still found .
24 Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England .
25 NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data .
26 It is believed to be the first time that prospective officers have sought election on a collective basis .
27 It is taken to be the ultimate proof of conjugal loyalty .
28 If the word exists in the dictionary it is taken to be the answer .
29 Now it is set to be the unofficial mascot of staff at Harper and Harper furniture , Northgate , who have taken the bird to a taxidermist to be stuffed .
30 Further discussion on the proposal will be deferred until the 1993 meeting , when it is expected to be the main focus of environmental lobbying .
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