Example sentences of "that they [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | The only difference between railways and the other utilities is that they are precieved to be costing the exchequer money , not providing revenue to it . |
2 | Other aspects of the grammar and phonology of these sentences ( from different speakers ) make it clear that they are intended to be " Patois " . |
3 | Agreement with the objectives will help to ensure that they are seen to be important and that activity will be directed towards their achievement . |
4 | Quite apart from the fact that they are bound to be different something approaching 60% of the basic functions will be identical ; loading , saving , printing , editing , type selection , etc . |
5 | There is not much comfort for the museum in the knowledge that celebrated works are impossible to fence ; the idiosyncratic choice of stolen works strongly suggests that one buyer 's taste was being followed and that they are destined to be hidden away in a private collection , possibly in South America or Japan . |
6 | The habit of mind which opposes family and state , and which gives the family a special position in the organization of a polity , is not solely Libyan : strongly étatique societies have often tried to abolish or limit the institution of the family ; and the attempts by government to regulate family life by intervening to increase or to decrease births , by altering rules of inheritance , by inhibiting or encouraging kinship corporations , are so familiar that they are taken to be natural functions of the state . |
7 | Indeed , they are often considered to be so routine that they are taken to be ‘ normal ’ . |
8 | Often the attraction of broader approaches like counselling is that they are thought to be able to tackle many massive problems at the same time . |
9 | The modules remain online until such time that they are requested to be offlined again , at which time they are simply deleted from online storage . |
10 | Other clauses are subject to a test of reasonableness , and are enforceable only to the extent that they are shown to be reasonable . |
11 | It is said that his influence came through his extraordinary power , both learned and ‘ uncanny ’ , to rearrange suggestively the letters of the divine Name ( the Tetragrammaton : YHWH ) , which are so sacrosanct that they are considered to be unpronounceable . |
12 | Germans now are Europeans in a way they were not before , and indeed the demand of East Germans that they be allowed to be Europeans , with the same wide-ranging and unquestioned rights to travel , study , and residence as the rest of us was both a catalyst and an indication of how much things have changed . |
13 | Germans now are Europeans in a way they were not before , and indeed the demand of East Germans that they be allowed to be Europeans , with the same wide-ranging and unquestioned rights to travel , study , and residence as the rest of us was both a catalyst and an indication of how much things have changed . |
14 | Both Warnie and Minto were jealous of anyone who claimed Jack 's love ; this meant that they were bound to be jealous of one another , since for both of them Jack was the most important person in the universe . |
15 | That the police should stop law-abiding Kent miners at the Dartford tunnel on the grounds that they were thought to be destined for the Yorkshire coalfield two hundred miles away was remarkable indeed . |
16 | I knew that they were sincere and above all that they were meant to be helpful . |
17 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
18 | That means that they were designed to be viewed right through at one sitting . |