Example sentences of "[noun] is understood to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABS describes his fears as " irrational " but Nuclear Electric is understood to be seriously concerned at the implications . |
| 2 | The basis of Pink , the Apple/IBM ( Taligent ) object-oriented operating system of the future is understood to be a proprietary microkernel called Opus that began life in Apple back in 1988 . |
| 3 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 4 | However , Laming is understood to be keen to start detailed monitoring . |
| 5 | The car is understood to be owned by the mother of the driver . |
| 6 | Heron is understood to be confident its rescheduling programme , backed by a mass of financial information contained in three volumes , will be accepted by bankers and bondholders . |
| 7 | He was taken to Walton Hospital where his condition is understood to be stable . |
| 8 | The Bank of England is understood to be keeping a watch as discussions continue between Eurotunnel and its four agent banks , which include the Midland and National Westminster . |
| 9 | The Institute is understood to be investigating the activities of Sting 's auditors Moore Sloane , which closed down in September . |
| 10 | Aetna , the large US insurance group is understood to be a front runner on the 20-strong list of potential buyers for Gartmore . |
| 11 | ITV is understood to be concerned about what it sees as a weakening of its expensive agreement by individual clubs . |
| 12 | The charge is understood to be connected to the discovery of ten bags of fertiliser at a house in the west of the city last weekend . |
| 13 | Bell Atlantic is understood to be working on an implementation of Multiflow 's ingenious Trace Scheduling Compilers for 64-bit Sparc architectures . |
| 14 | The advantage of a ‘ message ’ Christology would seem to be that , with the shift of concentration from the person of Christ to his message , we circumvent the problems which present themselves when the symbol of a male person is understood to be central to Christianity . |
| 15 | In such a situation behaviour is understood to be analogous to war . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the infinitive event is understood to be realized after verbs of achievement ( I managed , got to ask the Prime Minister a question ) , causation ( I persuaded , convinced him to give up smoking ) , etc . |
| 17 | But if no progress is made towards full ethnic monitoring of the West Midlands case , the commission is understood to be prepared to raise the matter with Mr David Waddington , the Home Secretary , who is responsible for both the commission and the authority . |
| 18 | In developing styles of music to make worship accessible to as many people as possible , the primary aim of music in the house church movement is understood to be to glorify God . |
| 19 | Hewlett-Packard is understood to be contributing parts of its DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility and IBM parts of its SOM to the object core layer . |
| 20 | Mr Bailey has been very much a front of house man at Hatchards and well known to many of the bookshop 's most distinguished customers , but Dillons is understood to be reorganising the store 's management structure under its new general manager , Roger Katz , and , with the recent appointment of Duncan Goldie-Scot , looks to be putting greater emphasis on direct marketing . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the notion of change of state does not have to be a criterial trait of the meaning of the verb ( see Cruse , 1986 ) ; it is sufficient that a change of state is understood to be compatible with the lexical value of the verb . |
| 22 | The former building society is understood to be prepared to take court action if it does not wrest the compensation from Lloyds . |
| 23 | HP is understood to be contributing parts of its DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility and IBM parts of its SOM to the object core layer . |
| 24 | The rest of the evidence against Mr Ryan is understood to be mainly circumstantial . |
| 25 | FORMER Middlesbrough boss Bruce Rioch is understood to be on a shortlist of six for the manager 's job at Darlington . |
| 26 | Associated Newspapers is understood to be considering a bid for the Oracle teletext franchise , alongside Carlton Communications , Independent Television News , TV-am and MAI Broadcasting . |
| 27 | The big surf companies have caught on to such a trend towards the plain and dark : Quicksilver is understood to be behind the Pirate Surf label , and Gotcha runs a second , more cultish label called More Core Division . |
| 28 | Mr Major is understood to be prepared to co-operate with a visit , but only under conditions which ensure diplomatic neutrality on the issue . |
| 29 | The bid to obtain Objective One status is understood to be on a knife edge and caution was the order of the day . |
| 30 | The Department of Health is understood to be highly sceptical . |