Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [be] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact of the Tiananmen massacre is bound to be detrimental in this respect . |
| 2 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co is determined to be recognised as a genuine contender in the mass market , and to demonstrate its commitment it immediately responded to the Compaq Computer Corp price cuts with cuts of its own in the US . |
| 3 | The EFA radar contract is thought to be worth around £1.5billion to the consortium which wins the contract . |
| 4 | The EFA radar contract is thought to be worth around £1.5billion to the consortium which wins the contract . |
| 5 | The difficulty with any kind of platonism that claims the ontological primacy of qualities — or any kind of universals — is that in presenting its case it implicitly relies on certain assumptions about existentially unique particulars , which no sooner are made explicit than the whole platonist case is shown to be built on sand . |
| 6 | Intel Corp 's Scientific Computer Division is expected to be first to market in December , with an installation at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee . |
| 7 | I do n't know I do n't know how long income support 's going to be , I do n't know how long my next pay packet 's gon na be or what have you . |
| 8 | In every way , the submarine cable was proving to be ‘ … one of the great technical adventures of the 19th century , something akin to exploration of space today ’ .9 |
| 9 | Full IBM CICS support is said to be on its way . |
| 10 | An architect certifying amounts payable to a contractor under a building contract was held to be in the position of an arbitrator in Stevenson v Watson ( 1879 ) 4 CP 148 and therefore not liable to the contractor , and , by a considerable extension of the same argument , not liable to the employer either in Chambers v Goldthorpe [ 1901 ] 1 KB 624 . |
| 11 | There are few descriptions of the histological features of gold induced colitis , but a preservation of glandular architecture and diffuse inflammatory cell infiltrate sometimes with a prominent eosinophil component are said to be characteristic . |
| 12 | Over 35,000 plant species were carefully screened for anti-cancer properties , and yew bark extract was found to be effective against tumours in mice . |
| 13 | The presence of an attachment figure is considered to be vital to the emotional and social survival of the individual , and when attachments are threatened or removed in any way it can lead to intense forms of attachment behaviour , such as clinging , crying and extreme grief . |
| 14 | Budget maximization is held to be both rational and necessary for survival . |
| 15 | If , as seems likely , drug makers , food companies and others who are obliged to have their new products approved by the US Food and Drug Administration are going to be asked to pay for their vetting , it seems only reasonable that they should have a say in how it is run . |
| 16 | and er it must be borne in upon them that the alternative for us are not having money to keep up our roads programme is going to be very dangerous therefore I think there is no question that the recent test programme is the second priority for concern . |
| 17 | A SECOND prosecution against a firm accused of supplying machine tools to Iraq in breach of an export ban was expected to be dropped today . |
| 18 | Control Data Corp is said to be considering taking over the development of Portable NetWare for the MIPS chip , sources claimed last week . |
| 19 | Explaining why Mujadid , was sent to London to further his education , group chief geologist Tim Burnhill said : ‘ We are committed to enhancing and improving the technical skills of our employees , and the Imperial College course is deemed to be one of the best of its type anywhere in the world . |
| 20 | However , the working out of these three dimensions in the undergraduate curriculum is bound to be rather different from their manifestation in the school curriculum because higher education comes at a different stage in the educational life-cycle . |
| 21 | Representatives of Everton Football Club are expected to be present . |
| 22 | While a higher proportion of temporary workers than of the total labour force were found to be women workers ( 6 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) , temporary workers were also ‘ considerably younger ’ than the generality of workers , largely because a high proportion of the former are still teenagers . |
| 23 | of the crew of a British fishing boat were required to be of British or other Community nationality , only extended to vessels fishing within British fishery limits because of the problems of enforcement outside United Kingdom jurisdiction . |
| 24 | The companies act and the act on the stock exchange are considered to be of primary importance for the creation of a free market economy . |
| 25 | MEMBER firms of the London Stock Exchange were thought to be back in profit in the last quarter of 1992 after a third-quarter deficit caused by heavy dealing losses and falling revenues . |
| 26 | Unlike Western governments , which have been careful to avoid giving the appearance of fomenting unrest in eastern Europe , the Norwegian Nobel committee is thought to be ready to try to advance the cause of democracy in a country which has shown only the most rudimentary signs of change . |
| 27 | South Glamorgan county council and the Vale of Glamorgan borough council are reported to be planning increases limited to three percent or below . |
| 28 | This week the Action Team are going to be getting to grips with the Council Tax which came into effect from the 1st of April this year and affects us all . |
| 29 | ‘ Because , ’ said Henry , ‘ my pig wife was going to be made into bacon . ’ |
| 30 | This tooth tusk is thought to be used more for jousting matches than to help in feeding , and narwhal tusks brought back to Europe by early ocean adventurers almost certainly inspired the legends of the one-horned unicorn . |