Example sentences of "they be [vb pp] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , discharges frequently run from septic tanks in the grounds of country cottages , many of whose occupants are old people who have the sympathies of field men , since most of them are believed to be badly off . |
| 2 | The consequence of this is that women are feared because they are seen to be sexually aggressive , and relations with men are spoiled because a close tie to them , which might otherwise constitute a conflict-free alternative nevertheless connotes a parallel threat of passive dependency . |
| 3 | Different attitudes confront older people ; they are seen to be too slow , too set in their work practices , or possessing skills which have become or will become redundant . |
| 4 | Bourque and Grossholtz ( 1984 ) argue that the acceptance of ‘ masculinity as ideal political behaviour ’ has dire consequences for studying women : the unquestioned assumption that the political attitudes , behaviour and preferences of men define mature political behaviour means that when women do not match these they are said to be either apolitical or politically naive . |
| 5 | They are said to be generally positive to the takeover but still need to achieve certain comfort levels . |
| 6 | They are said to be very fast over the first 40 yards , and the advice offered by the locals is that you should run on a zig-zag course if one of them takes a fancy to you . |
| 7 | I have not tried the Nitragon myself but they are said to be very good . |
| 8 | Consequently they are said to be only suitable for the rarified world of HQ where men with no ‘ bottle ’ and the non-combatants have fled . |
| 9 | This financial year , they are expected to be just over £1 billion — about one half of 1 per cent . |
| 10 | They are designed to be less restrictive than full safety helmets and are known as ‘ bump caps ’ . |
| 11 | The matter is further complicated by the fact that the disclosure letter will almost always say the disclosures are made by reference to the warranty to which they are thought to be most applicable , but they also apply to all warranties . |
| 12 | Although they always look so tempting on the garden centre shelf , they are known to be very hard to please . |
| 13 | They 're bound to be wide awake . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They 're socialised to be very obsequious . |
| 15 | We 're running balloons on them , they 're meant to be like blown balloon things . |
| 16 | They were born to be bloody tragic . ’ |
| 17 | The medical profession found his theories very difficult to shake off , even when they were demonstrated to be manifestly false . |
| 18 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 19 | Fernando loved her and she loved him and they were meant to be together . |
| 20 | In contrast , trade unions in France had too little organisational strength in the workplace to be able to inflict major economic losses on the firm and they were considered to be too ideologically radical to be permitted a higher degree of participation . |
| 21 | Since only a limited number of hypotheses could be tested prospectively , other potential risk factors , such as a previous history of slow ulcer healing , were tested exploratorily either because it was not felt necessary to confirm their reported effect on healing or because they were considered to be less important to ulcer healing . |
| 22 | English vessels were unpopular among shippers because they were judged to be incompetently run . |
| 23 | They were chosen to be infinitely large in order to reduce the problem to a one-dimensional one . |
| 24 | One of a batch of large bogie cars , delivered to Gravesend where they were found to be too large , also found its way onto the Aurelia Road site , to be tried out when the line opened . |
| 25 | They were found to be more satisfactory . |
| 26 | In comparison with accountants , bank managers , NHS doctors and estate agents , they were found to be as easy to talk to as bank managers and easier to talk to than all the others bar NHS doctors , to be easier to understand than accountants and estate agents , to be more efficient than accountants and estate agents , to be more hardworking than accountants , bank managers and estate agents , to be as dependable as bank managers and more dependable than accountants and estate agents , to be as up-to-date as accountants and more up-to-date than estate agents . |
| 27 | Because the cats wandered about , often at night , they were thought to be either the supernatural servants of the witches , or else the witches themselves , transformed into cat-shape to aid their nocturnal travels when seeking revenge . |
| 28 | Many problems which we are prepared to treat as bipolar have ramifications which could be taken into account if they were thought to be as important as the impact of the decision on the two contestants . |