Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We noticed now a trail of well-trodden snow winding back towards the shore , obviously a route known to be safe by the experienced locals . |
| 2 | POLICE are appealing for shopkeepers to help them trace an axe and a sledgehammer thought to be the weapons used in the murder of Liverpool couple Jean Larkin and Garry Pettitt . |
| 3 | Many pitched their suggested figure at a level considered to be somewhere near the price of an average house mortgage . |
| 4 | Every villager who had a mule seemed to be making his way that day to the beach north of Famagusta , by Salamis . |
| 5 | The whole problem was compounded by the fact that the first successful desktop publishing system was based on the Macintosh ; a computer designed to be easy to use and , therefore , give the feeling of rapid achievement . |
| 6 | That is to say that although he was clearly not endorsing a militaristic brand of Rambo-style Christianity — say , fighting modern crusades against Muslims , or shooting atheists — he was insisting that to be a Christian meant to be a person engaged in the Great Battle . |
| 7 | LIFESPAN will automatically mail a user deemed to be responsible for the SPR from the following list ( in the order specified ) : — |
| 8 | After Thompson 's killer blow , Ipswich midfielder Jason Dozzell performed a celebratory jig on the pitch with a fan believed to be his brother . |
| 9 | The inspiring and impressive castle gatehouse , with a trio of towers , and a superb archway , is surmounted by a figure believed to be that of Edward I. Visit the exhibition and nearby Denbigh Friary , Leicester 's Church and St Hilary 's Chapel . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One of their main assignments was to contact Edoardo Amaldi , a physicist thought to be in hiding near Rome . |
| 12 | BP PROPERTIES has sold a central London office to EIE International , the Japanese property investment group , in a deal thought to be worth about £200m . |
| 13 | The IRA men parked a car believed to be containing a bomb near to a place where soldiers from the Royal Anglian Regiment usually assembled before the changing of their guard . |
| 14 | The Port Authority policeman on the Ionian island of Kefallinia saw a child believed to be Ben Needham , from Sheffield , South Yorks , being driven in the back of a blue vehicle by two non-Greek women on February 17 . |
| 15 | A body thought to be hers was found two months ago . |
| 16 | The original duty owed was the basic one of not intentionally or recklessly injuring a trespasser known to be present ( Addie v Dumbreck Collieries [ 1929 ] AC 358 ) . |
| 17 | The occupier owed a duty of common humanity to a trespasser known to be present . |
| 18 | But the French-born widow does personally own a chateau believed to be worth £3 million and has found £900,000 for the legal fees of her sons Ian and Kevin . |
| 19 | By 1618–19 output had improved sufficiently , it seems , to warrant the building of a water-powered stamp-mill at a site believed to be at the foot of Red Dell or Thriddle and which , despite its altitude , was well placed to serve the mines about there which would now include the newly discovered God 's Blessing at the head of the dell and which like its namesake ( almost ) in Newlands Valley near Keswick , was highly esteemed but mistakenly so . |
| 20 | For example , in Dyason v Autodesk Inc. ( 1990 ) there was much confusion as to whether a " dongle " , a device required to be inserted into a computer before a program would operate , contained a computer program and in Gale 's Application [ 1991 ] , the trial judge ( erroneously ) drew a distinction between a program on disk and one hard-wired into a ROM chip . |
| 21 | This might be the case with provocation , for example : there may be objections to some of the distinctions now drawn by the law of provocation , but a broader defence of extreme emotional disturbance might provide for reduction of the offence in cases of loss of self-control when caring for a baby or when arrested by a police-officer known to be acting lawfully , and some might feel that there are strong arguments against this . |
| 22 | IPSWICH yesterday signed two players from Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon for a fee believed to be in the region of £200,000 . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Ipswich yesterday signed two players from the Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon for a fee believed to be in the region of Pounds 200,000 . |
| 24 | The centre-piece of the complex is an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Nicklaus — for a fee reputed to be IR£1 million . |
| 25 | A short cork is perfectly adequate for a wine destined to be drunk within a few years . |
| 26 | These fees are modest , but a person shown to be appealing in a frivolous or vexatious manner may have the costs of the appeal hearing awarded against him . |
| 27 | The need for short term care is therefore of paramount importance , yet this is a facility felt to be lacking throughout the country . |
| 28 | A schoolgirl thought to be as young as twelve has knocked down a pedestrian while driving a stolen car . |
| 29 | This paradox is strongly reminiscent of Bradleyan idealism , and to understand the nature of Four Quartets it is appropriate to recall what Eliot as a student considered to be one of the central principles of Bradley 's thought : that , for the sceptic faced with the possibility of acquiring only relative truth , coherence and comprehensiveness were important for their own sake . |
| 30 | But they had a lively fear that enclosure might rob them of their valuable rights — rights which made a real difference to their standard and their mode of living — in the interests of the large freeholders and a corporation known to be corrupt . |