Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crew of that canoe were believed to be among the first human beings to set foot on the Islands . |
| 2 | The importance of a complete index was demonstrated to be so important to bureaux workers that plans to cut the reissue of the index from four times a year to three were shortlived . |
| 3 | Overall , though the various criminal justice agencies were seen as differentially culpable with regard to racial discrimination , racially prejudiced attitudes were thought to be widespread . |
| 4 | In this form it will handle 600 activities ; a memory expansion unit to raise this figure to 3000 activities is expected to be available in 1990 . |
| 5 | Each segment is designed to be small enough to be covered by the salesperson during one day 's work . |
| 6 | The sufferings of the young when first they go away from home and try to hold their own with cruel contemporaries are felt to be very great even when they are not . |
| 7 | People could borrow from the social fund , he said , and get money that was interest-free , but money was taken from their income support immediately , even though that support was meant to be the lowest level of income on which one could cope . |
| 8 | Labour hours are expected to be limited to 800 next year . |
| 9 | Metallic hydrogen is expected to be produced at very high pressures because the molecules of molecular hydrogen ( H 2 ) will be forced so close together that each of the two hydrogen atoms in the H 2 molecule is attracted to atoms in neighbouring molecules as much as to its partner . |
| 10 | It is an inescapable fact that , despite all the care taken in passing legislation , some statutory provisions when applied to the circumstances under consideration in any specific case are found to be ambiguous . |
| 11 | The rate of technical progress is assumed to be determined exogenously , which means that the steady-state rate of growth of output is unaffected by taxation ( it is equal to . |
| 12 | But at the same time , it is clear that as soon as the war was over the purely economic contradictions were bound to be excessively aggravated . |
| 13 | But there it is , and outside and foreign firms will put money in , especially if subsidized by temporary government measures , for as you know , public investment in private industry is judged to be ideologically correct , while public investment for public and community concerns is judged ideologically to be harmful , but the firms are interested in making money out of the region if I may so put it , not in sustaining world promotion and healthy living in the region . |
| 14 | Transcription of the exogenous sequences was shown to be alpha-amanitin resistant , which indicates that the procyclin/PARP promoter was active . |
| 15 | It was not that ruffianism was thought to be funny , but the radical and socialist press wished to place a different emphasis on the criminal question which took full account of the social and material circumstances of working-class life . |
| 16 | Before we plunge into that debate we ought to recognize that recruitment to elite positions in the public and private sectors is said to be highly meritocratic . |
| 17 | Some stolen stock was allowed to be recovered by the traditional method — not , it can be imagined , without amusement on the part of the Masai , who had spent forty years resisting the government 's efforts to abolish that fighting spirit which was now deemed so commendable . |
| 18 | the district judge held that each defendant was bound to be found negligent . |
| 19 | People lacking supportive relationships were expected to be prone to depression whether or not they experienced major difficulties or threatening events . |
| 20 | The Oct-2 proteins are thought to be effectors of octamer-dependent immunoglobulin gene transcription and certain cytokine genes [ 7 ] . |
| 21 | The conditions of mass unemployment certainly helped to support the feeling of leniency , in that crime was thought to be an inevitable consequence of poverty , so that there was an active sympathy for the young unemployed whose miserable condition was further highlighted in a perceived increase of suicides among the young . |
| 22 | At the end of February total casualty figures among the 700,000-strong allied force were estimated to be at least 131 killed in action and 100 in accidents or other incidents . |
| 23 | The intrapatient standard deviation for this parameter was assumed to be 0.6 mmol/l . |
| 24 | High support was found to be associated with a low rate of illness , and a high level of events with a high rate of illness . |
| 25 | Of particular importance from the Soviet point of view , states of this kind were held to be ‘ objectively anti-imperialist ’ in that they generally opposed the substantial control over their domestic affairs that had traditionally been exercised by the major capitalist powers . |
| 26 | But this guitar is meant to be a tribute and if you are going to do the job properly , then details like this should n't be overlooked , whether the Floyd is better or not than the original . |
| 27 | This index is claimed to be a world list of books in the English language . |
| 28 | Another march is being held in Bonn next Monday , three days before the summit , when 50,000 Germans are expected to be on the streets . |
| 29 | This story is written to be read out loud , and in many contemporary cultures , reading out loud is something done mostly for children . |
| 30 | As is very much the fashion these days , the contract could be protested by the losers who in this case are believed to be Control Data Systems and its subcontractors . |