Example sentences of "[noun pl] be understood [prep] be " in BNC.
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1 | Discussions are understood to be under way with several companies which have expressed an interest in setting up alongside the plant to supply components to Motorola , which operates on a just-in-time principle of bringing in materials just as they are required for the production process . |
2 | In the run-up to next month 's Twickenham showdown , discussions are understood to be taking place on the staging of a floodlit fixture to officially hansel the completed Murrayfield super-stadium in the autumn of 1994 . |
3 | Sometimes authorities are understood to be limited by the kinds of acts which they can or can not regulate ( given some restrictive ways of classifying acts ) . |
4 | Moreover , members of other cultures are understood to be themselves active participants in such model building and so their social and linguistic ‘ grammars ’ have to be taken into account also . |
5 | Miss Boothroyd 's supporters are understood to be ready to put the issue to a vote , while there is an equal determination on the Tory side to put forward their preferred nominee . |
6 | Other directors are understood to be satisfied that he was not implicated in the fraud and had no knowledge of it . |
7 | Mirror directors are understood to be deeply concerned about the mounting costs as the company continues to work on its 1991 results figures and a report on on its financial health , now expected later this month . |
8 | Mirror directors are understood to be deeply concerned about the mounting costs as the company continues to work on its 1991 results figures and a report on its financial health , now expected later this month . |
9 | Meanwhile , investigators are understood to be examining an uncompleted property transaction between the French company and a Leichtenstein trust connected with Robert Maxwell . |
10 | Arts Council officers are understood to be considering changing the practice of handing out separate information about the arts to the different political party conferences . |
11 | The forgeries are understood to be changing hands at up to £60 a time across the province in pubs and clubs . |
12 | Security chiefs are understood to be deeply annoyed that information about today 's celebrations has fallen into the hands of the IRA . |
13 | He is expected to leave within the next couple of weeks , and his lawyers are understood to be negotiating a settlement . |
14 | Individual governors are understood to be unhappy at the tax arrangements and the way it appears to have damaged Mr Birt 's credibility in the eyes of licence payers . |
15 | However in South Armagh the security forces are understood to be facing a blank wall in their search for an IRA sniper who has killed three members of the security forces and for the IRA 's mortar team . |
16 | At the time , both departments were understood to be concerned about potential tax losses and a steep increase in collection costs . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Dec. 27 reported that the debts were understood to be owed mainly to the Soviet Union and east European states , and possibly Iran . |
19 | There is no substance to Neumann 's remark that the ‘ many minuets [ of the classical masters ] without tempo indications were understood to be in Tempo di menuetto or in Allegretto and that , we have seen , was anything but fast ’ . |
20 | The plans come as ministers are understood to be finalising plans for legislation to introduce voluntary membership of student unions , with a bill likely next parliamentary session . |
21 | The plans come as ministers are understood to be finalising plans for legislation to introduce voluntary membership of student unions , with a bill likely in the next parliamentary session . |
22 | Others are understood to be considering similar action . |
23 | In a world in which women are understood to be the equals of men , and in which we must promote the equality of people of different races , such a Christology as that which I was proposing would seem to be fruitful . |
24 | BBC insiders are understood to be relieved by the appointment of David Mellor to head the new heritage ministry , which will oversee the Corporation 's charter renewal in 1996 . |
25 | Other car makers are understood to be evaluating coil coatings which are commonly used in the automotive industry in Japan . |
26 | The social panic surrounding the emergence of the Teddy Boys formed part of a much wider structure of feeling in 1950s Britain that the social changes wrought on the postwar world were destroying the old ‘ British way of life ’ and the former civility of the British people , and the Teds were understood to be symptomatic of these social alterations . |