Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , since trade with the Soviet Union is intended to be bilaterally balanced , it has been necessary to find some Yugoslav products to supply to the Soviet Union in return for its petroleum and other raw materials . |
| 2 | Ophiohelus is considered to be closely allied to these three genera . |
| 3 | In Galloway , for example , the reduced breeding performance of golden eagles is considered to be directly related to afforestation due to loss of open moorland which is their main feeding area . |
| 4 | In 1982 this rose to 70% and by 1990 this is expected to be comfortably exceeded . |
| 5 | There is clearly therefore no legal difficulty involved in aborting a mentally handicapped child , or a child who is expected to be mentally handicapped . |
| 6 | Lee 's intervention is expected to be warmly welcomed by City fans who idolised him during his playing days . |
| 7 | The patient is expected to be suitably dressed for treatment : men usually wear comfortable , loose-fitting shorts , with adequate underpants underneath , while females wear shorts plus a camisole top , or a sleeveless vest with a comfortable brassière underneath it . |
| 8 | As a result of the sales agreements entered into by Pertamina in 1991 , the capacity of the LNG plant is expected to be fully committed in 1992 and 1993 . |
| 9 | ‘ Many of the artists in the 1993 Biennial exhibition work consciously to deconstruct and de-center the politically constructed site of whiteness and its relation to the ever-changing direction of Americanness ’ , writes one newly appointed curator , who is said to be already organising an exhibition scheduled for 1995 on the deconstruction of the African-American male , ‘ the body provides an immediate site for discussions of culture , gender , class , and sexual specificity . |
| 10 | Neighbouring Azici , an even more rural community , is said to be completely destroyed . |
| 11 | Some plants , however , are known to be efficiently dispersed by two quite distinct types of agent , e.g. the fruits of Faramea occidentalis ( Rubiaceae ) on Barro Colorado Island are eaten by a range of mammals and birds , but dispersal is said to be principally effected by howler and white-faced monkeys and by crested guans . |
| 12 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 13 | The cortex is said to be retinotopically mapped . |
| 14 | If you can find someone with a key to let you in , the interior of the chapel is said to be interestingly decorated , but the one time I was in Harambels I could find cows but no people . |
| 15 | A finite ladder of identical symmetric sections , which has the last section loaded with the characteristic impedance in order that all sections are so loaded , is said to be correctly terminated . |
| 16 | Mia , 47 , is said to be so devastated by her daughter 's affair with Allen she has been unable to eat . |
| 17 | In this procedure b is said to be parallel transported from B to A. Comparison of local vectors in a curved space is less straightforward because it is no longer possible to set up a single Cartesian coordinate system to cover all space . |
| 18 | Since the superstructure of society — the major institutions , values and belief systems — is seen to be largely shaped by the economic infrastructure , the relations of production will be reproduced in the superstructure . |
| 19 | To reverse the same idea , individual behaviour is seen to be strongly influenced by the systems in which it functions . |
| 20 | This is characterised by the perception of an author requiring a reader to make an effort in reading , but the text is seen to be maximally facilitating the search for coherence . |
| 21 | Also , the device immediately to the right of this — a stylised calyx — when compared with similar devices in other parts of the pavement , is seen to be poorly drawn . |
| 22 | The head , body and arms open out boldly in such a way that the performer is seen to be fully revealed to all as an honest , sincere person who has no need to dissemble . |
| 23 | The first of these concern a judgement as to the likelihood of the pupil returning to school which in turn is seen to be crucially influenced both by the nature of the pupil 's case history and the record of the school in re-admitting pupils . |
| 24 | In spite of this , there is plenty of scope for what is sought to be greatly reduced ; it is also possible for the permission to be limited in time , in other words for the development , building and/or use to be permitted only until some date in the future . |
| 25 | The tone chosen can indicate whether the tone-unit in which it occurs is being used to present new information or to refer to information which is felt to be already possessed by speaker and hearer . |
| 26 | Moreover , the Umgeni River near the plant , which is used for drinking water and bathing by local people , is alleged to be dangerously polluted with mercury . |
| 27 | It occurs naturally in Palestine , but the hyssop of the Bible is thought to be either marjoram or the caper plant ( Capparis spinosa ) . |
| 28 | Fear is the commonest change in mood associated with complex partial seizures and is thought to be exclusively related to the right temporal lobe . |
| 29 | Quaternary variation in carbonate and silica abundance in deep sea sediments is thought to be largely determined by the balance between the surface production of calcium carbonate and its dissolution in the undersaturated deep waters . |
| 30 | The early component of the meal stimulated increase in contractile activity is thought to be neurally mediated and the late component is thought to be hormonally mediated . |