Example sentences of "the [adj] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eight were reported to be well- equipped but had no overnight gear . |
| 2 | The proximal end of the stent is adjusted to be level with the papillary orifice . |
| 3 | Well if through the winter months when there 's no fire in there , no nothing in there the damp is bound to be coming through there . |
| 4 | The defensive partners in Galway 's biggest triumphs at the end of the 80s are resigned to being substitutes , but do n't rule out the introduction of one or both . |
| 5 | The FA-18 is said to be not well-suited to Switzerland , where fast aircraft find mountains looming up alarmingly soon . |
| 6 | THE BRITISH are said to be fascinated by the weather and talk of little else when the talk is small . |
| 7 | For even at the generally modest level of competition that Beckenham offers , the British are shown to be dismal failures . |
| 8 | From the outset , despite the talk of ‘ equality ’ with Germany , the French were determined to be the prominent power in EDC . |
| 9 | In 1759 the French were known to be preparing an invasion of Scotland in which French forces would sail and rouse any remaining Stuart rebels . |
| 10 | Yet because the old are seen to be more ill , more often than other age groups , illness and old age have become closely associated in our minds , leading to the belief that the old have to suffer and bear an unavoidable amount of pain and discomfort . |
| 11 | The Japanese are said to be keen to invest more , but worry about the safety of their executives there . |
| 12 | The 230 is designed to be an entry desktop workstation or server and has 8Kb of mixed instruction and data cache , and an additional 128Kb of level 2 cache . |
| 13 | The 230 is designed to be an entry desktop workstation or server and has 8Kb of mixed instruction and data cache , and an additional 128Kb of level 2 cache . |
| 14 | In a recent ‘ Out On Tuesday ’ programme on Channel 4 , Susan Hemmings observed how , in Britain , feminist lesbians in the seventies were expected to be attracted to a woman on the basis of her ideas rather than her appearance . |
| 15 | By 1936 , the year of Rowntree 's second survey in York , 15 per cent of the poor were found to be old people , but this was still adjudged to be a far less significant cause of poverty than unemployment or low wages . |
| 16 | As the gap between the rich and the poor was perceived to be widening , students felt this was bad for them and the country as a whole . |
| 17 | For example , if the firm 's home state and the host state go to war , bargaining with the latter is bound to be gravely affected , as British firms experienced recently in Argentina . |
| 18 | The latter is imagined to be a snake-like movement that translates the chain through the tube and allows it to escape at the tube ends . |
| 19 | The latter were thought to be Yak-9s , considered ‘ one of the USSR 's better conventional fighters , which compares well with USAF 's F-51 ’ . |
| 20 | ( 1.3 ) The possible argument consists in the premiss ( 1 ) that decisions and the like are taken to be effects but also to be no more than events which follow on conditions which are required for them , the further premiss ( 2 ) that it is to be presumed that we have a single conception of effects rather than several , and the conclusion ( 3 ) that all effects , including what have been called standard effects , are merely events preceded by conditions required for them . |
| 21 | Most of the mergers actually referred to the MMC were found to be against the public interest , and the effects of the legislation went beyond the cases actually referred . |
| 22 | The first was known to be Tony Gauci , son of the owner of Mary 's House , the boutique in Sliema from which the clothing in the bomb suitcase had allegedly been purchased . |
| 23 | The thickness of the Mesozoic is taken to be 1.3 km , with 0.3 km erosion during the Cenozoic . |
| 24 | Subsequently , when the remedy is given to treat sick people , other symptoms that had not been brought out in the Proving are noted to be cured by the remedy and if this happens repeatedly then those symptoms are added to the picture of that remedy . |
| 25 | The mood and issues of the 1990s are bound to be different from those of the 1980s . |
| 26 | But , perhaps , the biggest single difference between the work of the TechDoc system and the more insidious desktop publishing package is that the former are designed to be used in conjunction with other systems . |
| 27 | We can perhaps include in the category of semantic indicator such cases as the dis — of disappoint , disgust , dismay , etc. , and the im — of impertinent , impudent , etc. , if the former is felt to be related to the dis — of dislike and disapprove , and the latter to the im — of impolite ; the segments — appoint , — gust , — may , — pertinent and — pudent have no discernible semantic function , and do not need a label . |
| 28 | The main difference between the ‘ Oracles ’ and the Created God is that the former were believed to be of ‘ divine ’ origin , whereas the latter would be of mankind 's own creation , and therefore under human control . |
| 29 | Only two members of the Cabinet , Almonte and Parayno , had military backgrounds , but the former was known to be a particularly close confidant of Ramos . |
| 30 | The marriage of a person who has been judicially declared insane is totally void , and the same is said to be true of any disposition of property made by such a person . |