Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early animal links were therefore retained either in the god 's shape , in the attributes assigned to him , or in his association with certain animals deemed to be sacred to him . |
| 2 | She was a tall , awkward-looking girl overwhelmed at being close to someone who had long been her idol . |
| 3 | During counterinsurgency operations government forces sometimes used rape and sexual abuse to try and extract information from women suspected of involvement with the armed opposition , or even to punish women merely for living in areas known to be sympathetic to insurgents . |
| 4 | This consideration can affect the process of data modelling since the cognitive models available define the ‘ entities thought to be relevant to the task in hand ’ . |
| 5 | Reports in South Africa said a number of members of the Broederbond , the secret Afrikaner pressure group , were included in the talks , as well as individuals known to be close to Gerrit Viljoen , the Constitutional Planning Minister . |
| 6 | On the same day Mohsin Siddiqi , an opposition senator known to be close to the MQM , was one of 15 people killed in Karachi by unidentified snipers . |
| 7 | Mostly they consisted of reporting upon the current state of affairs in Vienna , with particular reference to the activities of certain persons suspected of being hostile to the French and their emperor . |
| 8 | i.e. it carries the presupposition that the person acted upon is subject to the dominion of the causal agent . |
| 9 | The following list is a guide intended to be useful to graduates or qualified persons wishing to take a further course of study . |
| 10 | Two of the deaths occurred in patients known to be sensitive to aspirin . |
| 11 | According to the Paris-based Indian Ocean Newsletter other appointments to the 300-member assembly included a former communist , members of the opposition Umma Party and Democrat Unionist Party ( DUP ) , and people known to be close to former President Nemery , reflecting a desire by the regime to broaden its support in the face of the unrest unleashed by its economic reforms . |
| 12 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 13 | The facts that might have prompted CSM to take a more serious view of Opren at its November 1981 meeting are : 1 its own unprecedented number of adverse reaction reports ; which by 1 November 1981 included over 20 deaths which reporting doctors suspected to be due to an Opren reaction ; 2 The reports of the Paris symposium , which it could have attended ; and 3 Dista 's suggestions for a change in the dosage recommendations . |
| 14 | We wished to establish whether epitopes within this peptide are specific to those cereal prolamins known to be toxic to patients with coeliac disease . |
| 15 | The history of the imposition of obligations without compensation has been to push that point progressively further on and to add to the list of requirements considered to be essential to the well-being of the community . |
| 16 | For the purposes of the present work , there will be an emphasis on structural differentiation and the availability of industrial products to the mass population , providing a material rather than an evolutionary legitimation for the exclusion , with respect to issues thought to be specific to modernity , of countries without monetary wealth or the necessary degree of equitable distribution . |
| 17 | The patients were referred to the gastroenterology unit of the Adelaide Children 's Hospital for evaluation of symptoms thought to be due to gastro-oesophageal reflux or a feeding disorder . |
| 18 | In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester 's merchants and employers — local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade — he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery . |
| 19 | The fate of UK telecommunications equipment manufacturers may also hang on the decision : if the UK market deemed to be open to US suppliers , the US government could decide to waive its penalties against UK suppliers . |
| 20 | The high rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia among black people were at one time thought to be due to widespread misdiagnosis of bizarre behaviour and transient hallucinatory experiences by white psychiatrists unfamiliar with normal Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions of severe distress . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State , Dean Acheson , warned the American mission in Seoul on 13 April 1949 that information had been received from a source believed to be reliable to the effect that serious trouble might arise in Korea within two months and that the initiative in these developments would be taken by South Korea . |