Example sentences of "[coord] [is] [verb] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stone has now vanished and is believed to have been used for paving the walks of St. James Church in Brackley . |
| 2 | It is of a rock type not common to the immediate area , the nearest appears to be found at Cayton and Cornelian Bays , ten miles distant , and is believed to have been brought to Rudston for religious reasons , since it was there long before the church . |
| 3 | It was mounted on four solid tyred wheels and is believed to have been painted dark blue . |
| 4 | The altar was discovered at the end of the eighteenth century close to the remains of the Villa of Tiberius on Capri and is believed to have been among objects looted by British troops in 1806 . |
| 5 | She has been a deputy Speaker since 1987 , and is understood to have been Mr Kinnock 's choice for Speaker if Labour had won last week 's General Election . |
| 6 | She is considered incredibly bright , capable , and is said to have been the prime mover in persuading Mr Lamont to reduce tax on new cars — a popular move in last month 's Budget statement . |
| 7 | Amis 's Stanley and the Women drew blood , for a time , from feminist opinion , and is said to have been blocked for a period from entry into the United States ; and Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses ( 1988 ) forced its author , a Muslim-born Indian , into hiding in 1989 for its alleged blasphemy against the Prophet . |
| 8 | Mehetabel , or ‘ Hetty ’ as she was generally known , received the same education as her brothers , and is said to have been able to read Greek at the age of eight . |
| 9 | It was bought by Baron Meyer de Rothschild for Mentmore before 1860 , and is known to have been in Palazzo Manfrini , Venice , by the 1850s . |
| 10 | The King Edward VI grammar school is one of the most ancient in the country and is known to have been an educational institution from at least 1276 , though it received its Royal Charter in 1551 . |
| 11 | What is more , Gavel 's largest shareholder , investment group Stratagem with 31 p.c. , is still refusing to sell out and is rumoured to have been buying Gavel 's convertible shares in an attempt to block any capital reconstruction . |
| 12 | The mill is first mentioned in the first part of the 17th century and is thought to have been built around 1620 , although clearly much of the present building is of a later date . |
| 13 | The present building was originally a corn mill , and is thought to have been built around the mid-18th century . |
| 14 | West believed that his mother had murdered his father ; the idea preyed upon him and is thought to have been contributory to his early death . |
| 15 | A little museum in Broadbank helps to tell the history of the town and right at the door is placed the Blue-stone : an enormous boulder which once stood on a street corner in the town and is thought to have been brought here by the Scandinavian ice flow . |
| 16 | ( This is not the present ladies ' room but is believed to have been on the first floor of the main clubhouse where it was known to be in the 1940 's at least ) . |
| 17 | Its date is uncertain but is thought to have been about 9Myr , and it is placed at this date on the phylogeny in Box 3 ( identified as SH ) . |