Example sentences of "by the [noun pl] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This particular winter the temperature was considered by the Zanskaris to be mild , never dropping below -20°C in the gorge . |
| 2 | Price Waterhouse surveyed 120 companies across Scotland of which a third were reckoned by the respondents to be appropriate for an MBO . |
| 3 | Johnson reported the lake water , so often gunmetal and brooding , as remarkably clear and pleasant , and is imagined by the natives to be medicinal' . |
| 4 | As Adam Smith observed , it is important that any tax is perceived by the taxpayers to be fair . |
| 5 | This planned initiative runs alongside individual action and studies show that this system is not deemed by the teachers to be incompatible with their creative freedom ( Bjerke , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Meal times were felt by the children to be dreary occasions . |
| 7 | Could this point be ‘ sold ’ to the public , who are thought by the politicians to be uninterested with matters ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ ? |
| 8 | In order to be fruitful , competition must be open , rather than closed ; or , rather , must be perceived by the participants to be open , rather than closed . |
| 9 | Nor does National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 in which it was held that payment of betting duty under a statutory provision thought by the plaintiffs to be applicable but later held by this House in a similar case to be inapplicable , was made under a mistake of law and not of fact and was therefore irrecoverable . |