Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes . |
| 2 | Napoleon is meant to have said that an army marches on its stomach . |
| 3 | Buxton is given a standing ovation |
| 4 | Midland shares were the most actively traded on the stock market and fell 7 to 365p on announcement of the all-paper terms compared with the 400p which Lloyds is believed to be prepared to pay . |
| 5 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 6 | Gary Crosby is dropped to accomodate Chettle , Tobbi Orlygsson moves to the right-wing , while Kingsley Black makes way for Woan . |
| 7 | Stukeley 's claim for All Saints ' College at Wothorpe is based on Speed 's early seventeenth-century map , and is just a misreading of an entry in Valor Ecclesiasticus , Henry VIII 's survey of the value of ecclesiastical property . |
| 8 | Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you , so that you may guard ( against evil ) Surrah 11 , 183 |
| 9 | In this region the Kupferschiefer is underlain by a thick series ( several hundred to one thousand meters ) of Rotliegendes ( Lower Permian ) , often represented by volcanic rocks . |
| 10 | It is interesting to note that farther to the west , in southern Oldenburg and at the Ems estuary , where Kupferschiefer is underlain by thin Rotliegendes and flat lying Upper Carboniferous , vitrinite reflectance is about the same in the Kupferschiefer and at the top Carboniferous , thus reflecting the predominance of recoalification . |
| 11 | Bull sources nevertheless told Reuter some kind of partnership was being sought for Zenith.Bull is included on the list of state-controlled companies France wants to privatise . |
| 12 | In the House of Commons sixty MPs tabled a motion ‘ deploring the manner in which Lady Diana Spencer is treated by the media ’ , and ‘ calling on those responsible to have more concern for individual privacy ’ . |
| 13 | If Spencer is taken as the model it seems clear that Victorian evolutionary social theory was far from being collectivist in its orientation . |
| 14 | At home , Marks & Spencer is considered the most sensible place for the middle class to shop . |
| 15 | From Moscow , Mr Gorbachev is believed to have given personal orders that his troops should stay firmly in their East German barracks during recent demonstrations and not respond to local provocation . |
| 16 | Indeed , one merchant from Phrygia is known to have visited Rome no fewer than seventy-two times . |
| 17 | As the survivors are air-lifted to safety by helicopter , the badly wounded Elias is seen being pursued and shot down by the North Vietnamese , his outstretched arms at the moment of death consciously evoking the Crucifixion . |
| 18 | In 1228 Bishop Richard Poer was translated from Salisbury to Durham , whereafter Elias is found witnessing deeds relating to both these sees . |
| 19 | Development for third party environments such as Mentor Graphics , Cadence Design Systems , Viewlogic Systems , Logical Devices and OrCAD is expected this summer . |
| 20 | At some point in 1975 , when he was seventy-eight and beginning to feel weary , Pope Paul VI made the following note : The whole of Giovanni Battista Montini is contained in these lines . |
| 21 | The Inter-Andean Depression of Ecuador is controlled by two terrane boundaries ( sutures ) , the Cainozoic reactivation of which provided channelways for the double chain of volcanic cordilleras , which form a caldera-graben . |
| 22 | Cotopaxi in Ecuador is reported to have lobbed a 200-ton bomb over fourteen kilometres , but this seems a little difficult to swallow . |
| 23 | Fresco was developed as a portable environment and Linton is thought to have his sights firmly set on Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT for the toolkit . |
| 24 | The DoH is committed to monitoring the new arrangements until July , but the findings will not be released until then . |
| 25 | Still searching for his other 3 assailants , Paul Lanighan is disgusted by the sentence . |
| 26 | ISC is understood to have small contracts in each of these territories but further ‘ phantom ’ contracts are believed to have been invented to make the company seem more successful than it was . |
| 27 | Before Hector is blinded by a lust for glory , he say to Troilus : |
| 28 | Midfielder Willie Falconer is lined up to deputise for Phillips , who was sent off for violent conduct against Southend United . |
| 29 | Eventually Gnashrak is defeated and captured at the Battle of Broken Leg Gulley by a Dwarf army led by Lord Ungrim Ironfist of Karak Kadrin . |
| 30 | They are stories situated in different countries — Villette is set in France , and was written in the 19th century , while ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ is set in America , and was written in this century . |