Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | DEC is widely held to be the largest foreign computer company in the country , although IBM Corp 's turnover is unknown . |
| 32 | The first edition of Acid Earth is widely held to be the most comprehensive and effective popular book on the subject . |
| 33 | Most people , indeed , are unwilling to talk of ‘ crime ’ when they discuss breach of pollution regulations : this sort of language is considered appropriate only where clearly blameworthy conduct exists — where there is a calculated breach of regulation , or where the polluting substance concerned is widely known to be dangerous and there was carelessness or recklessness in handling it . |
| 34 | AT 30 , Daldry is widely considered to be an inspired choice as the artistic director-designate of the Royal Court , London 's embattled home of new writing . |
| 35 | Because it makes public that which should stay hidden , pornography is widely considered to be a form of sexual propaganda . |
| 36 | One of the main reasons for the Soviet failure to undermine Latin American reliance on Western imports is that Soviet industrial machinery and equipment is widely considered to be inferior in quality to its capitalist produced counterparts . |
| 37 | The regulation of these factors is widely considered to be the way in which the small intestine adapts to nutritional demands . |
| 38 | The G M B is widely hailed to be the most progressive British trade union and is regarded as a key opinion former of all matters of industrial and economic and social policies . |
| 39 | In no circumstances whatsoever will there be any admission that the real basic cause of the failure is the one that is most feared to be true . |
| 40 | On the Intel side , the PCE-5S Pentium machine will be shown : it is currently running at 50MHz , but is eventually intended to be a 66MHz machine — all being well at Intel Corp . |
| 41 | I find it to be an irritating reminder that the solid rail service taken for granted by this part of the country , the one that provides an essential lifeline spring , summer , autumn and winter , is eventually going to be lost to these seasonal theme-park trucks full of florid , truffle-guzzling lounge lizards . |
| 42 | If the end result is eventually going to be thrown away ; memos , reports , flyers , price lists and so on , then page printer output is probably more than adequate . |
| 43 | ‘ Is it not remarkable , ’ she said , her pretty brows arched in bewilderment , ‘ that an organisation set up in support of the family is thereby assumed to be against the welfare state ? |
| 44 | In the film version , Peter Sellers played the role of the simpleton gardner who repeats ( in a slow , almost meditative style ) what other people say to him , and is thereby thought to be highly perceptive . |
| 45 | At Stade Roland Garros , the Centre Court temperature is rarely like to be less than 100 degrees F. The sunbaked concrete and clay cauldron is no place for the weak kneed or willed . |
| 46 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
| 47 | He can be a ‘ character ’ , a source of quaint rustic humour or homespun rural philosophy on such matters as the seasons and the weather , but he is rarely expected to be either forward-thinking or ‘ forward ’ in his demeanour . |
| 48 | The Crusade successfully united all women to the right of the Christian Democrats , while the Front is unofficially known to be controlled by the ultra-right ARENA Party . |
| 49 | But here he confuses the issue , for while print may well have initially encouraged authors to focus on an individual 's perception and cognition of the world , this does not mean that this technique is necessarily bound to be dominant in printed texts , for as the novel evolved , so did the concept of point of view . |
| 50 | Today the potato is rightfully acknowledged to be the most important vegetable we eat . |
| 51 | This plan 's only going to be successful if they do n't suspect anything , and if they see her around they 'll suspect lots . |
| 52 | For some reason there 's only going to be 2,000 singles pressed which means you 're either going to have to be very lucky or start saving your unpaid poll tax money now . |
| 53 | For some reason there 's only going to be 2,000 singles pressed which means you 're either going to have to be very lucky or start saving your unpaid poll tax money now . |
| 54 | Now it 's only going to be a short one , just out towards that buoy and when I call you , you can turn round , okay ? |
| 55 | Oh it does , and he said to me , erm this afternoon , he said eh , oh he said eh , your weight loss is really , really noticing this week , and I thought well , even if I had lost weight this week it 's only going to be a couple of pounds , and a couple of pounds would not notice . |
| 56 | and there 's only going to be a couple of people there she knows and she was gon na ring Marie and see if Rob and I could go , you know , really as a , to keep , make up a foursome sort of thing |
| 57 | I only wondered because I 've got to go out later , I need to get somebody else to come in and , and be here but if I think it 's only going to be about that . |
| 58 | I do n't know , it do n't seem to react to that , that 's a bit , mind you there again there 's only going to be that there is n't it ? |
| 59 | [ On p. 36810 the latter 's daughter María Julia Alsogaray , the administrator of the state telecommunications company Entel , is wrongly stated to be the UCD leader . ] |
| 60 | On the other hand , Virtual Network Architecture is nicely positioned to be scalable to the wide area . |