Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | an in-patient ( or awaiting admission or booked to be admitted ) in a hospital or nursing home ; or |
| 2 | Who would have thought that the Oakland As , celebrated by Mr Will and thought to be a collection of giants , would have been blown away in the World Series by a bunch of journeymen from Cincinnati ? |
| 3 | As of January 1991 four groupings continued to vie for control in Liberia : the Interim Government of National Unity , headed by Amos Sawyer and installed with the backing of the ECOWAS ( Economic Community of West African States ) peacekeeping force ECOMOG in November 1990 ; the Armed Forces of Liberia , the remnants of erstwhile President Samuel Doe 's forces , currently headed by Gen. Hezekiah Bowen ; the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , led by Charles Taylor and thought to be in control of much of the countryside outside the capital Monrovia ; and the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia , led by Prince Yormie Johnson . |
| 4 | That to the northeast has not been examined , but its southern counterpart was sectioned south of the junction and shown to be 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) wide with alternating bands of gravel , sand and cobbling . |
| 5 | It was interesting to observe how they arrived full of animation and determined to be good and entertaining guests and then to watch the slightly false vivacity fade away as the melin had its usual effect . |
| 6 | Yet while nobody can possibly deny the growing , and sometimes dramatic , impact of nationalist , or ethnic , politics , there is one major respect in which the phenomenon today is functionally different from the ‘ nationalism ’ and the ‘ nations ’ which combined nation-state and national economy was plainly a central fact of historical transformation and seen to be such . |
| 7 | Conservatives politely queued to join the the key conference of John Major 's career and prepared to be rallied … |
| 8 | Of those six present one was on his Sub-Committee and known to be in favour . |
| 9 | Covering 13,000 square metres and designed to be both relaxing and inspirational , the centre 's facilities are quite simply superb . |
| 10 | The debate about lead pollution from vehicle exhaust emissions is well known ; less publicity has been given to PAHs ( polychlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons ) , a ubiquitous product of combustion processes and known to be carcinogenic ( Lioy and Daisey 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Whereas his brother and sister , Manfredo and Margharita , had been brought up in Italy and educated to be Italians , he was a hybrid , with a mind trained to be English but emotions entirely Italian . |
| 12 | A British submarine on patrol off Crete had come across several Greek caiques or schooners of around 100 tons and known to be carrying German troops , petrol and ammunition . |
| 13 | Yet , as with declarations , such utterances will only be perceived as orders if certain conditions are in operation and known to be in operation by both the sender and the receiver . |
| 14 | Only poor Webb , still in plaster but determined to be back in the side in time for Italy , can feel discouraged by the way he brought it off . |
| 15 | Researchers in Birmingham and Aarhus in Denmark have found a protein called LMP , produced by the virus and thought to be involved in the cancer , in cells from about half of a sample of 84 tumours from patients with Hodgkin 's disease . |
| 16 | Initial conditions for the chemical constituents were taken from two-dimensional model results and adjusted to be consistent with recent observations . |
| 17 | Wallace had a good goal disallowed as Strach was on the far edge of the 6 yard box and deemed to be interfering with play when Wallace scored . |
| 18 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |
| 19 | She was identified with the planet Venus and thought to be the daughter of the sky god , for another of her epithets is Mistress of the Sky . |
| 20 | Lenin was the son of an education official in Simbirsk province and trained to be a lawyer . |
| 21 | Many of these plateaus have anomalous crustal thicknesses of between 20 and 40 km and an upper layer 10 to 15 km thick with P-wave velocities in the range 6.0–6.3 km s-h These values are in the range of granitic rocks in the continental crust and so it is inferred that many oceanic plateaus ( such as the Seychelles Bank ) are drowned continental fragments originating from the edges of ancient land masses and destined to be swept towards a subduction zone in the future . |
| 22 | Olomouc , former capital of Moravia and reputed to be Czechoslovakia 's second most interesting city , does n't look its best in mid-March . |
| 23 | You do n't have to read the book , it 's rubbish , but I mean you can just say , if you remember the title , The Imperial Presidency , here was a view that the presidency had become dominant , the presidency had grown out of all proportion to the intentions of the founding fathers and needed to be reined back . |