Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But France pointedly refused to participate in meetings where substantive decisions affecting the nature of the EEC were scheduled to be taken . |
| 2 | The RAF was thought to be responsible for 32 murders over 20 years , the most recent being that in April 1991 of Detlev Rohwedder , head of the Treuhand privatization agency [ see p. 38155 ] . |
| 3 | As of late November the Nasir group still claimed to control Malakal , whereas the government account stated that the town had been attacked abortively by a group led by a local religious leader , and Garang 's wing of the SPLA was said to be claiming that the town had been captured by " southern nationalists " within the army , aided by the southern rebel faction calling itself Anyanya II . |
| 4 | Apple Computer , Inc. in the States is claimed to be the world leading computer manufacturer , and in January 1992 , they advocated a prospect and development for ‘ PDA ( Personal Digital Assistant ) ’ information devices of a new category which would bridge the gap between the current personal computers and consumers electronics . |
| 5 | Animal production in the Auvergne is estimated to be worth 4,700 million FF Per annum . |
| 6 | Up to 10,000 armed Palestinians live in Sidon and the surrounding hills , and the PLO is bound to be accused by its enemies of involvement in the kidnappings at the very moment when President Mubarak of Egypt is trying to involve PLO supporters in peace talks with Israel . |
| 7 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 8 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 9 | The TBC was intended to be self-financing , yet in 1960 it obtained only £5,002 from licences and £6,896 from advertising . |
| 10 | Motorola Inc hopes to capture a broad market for the PowerPC processor by pricing the first versions well below Intel Corp 's fastest microprocessors , US PC Week reports : preliminary pricing for the PowerPC , due in volume in the third quarter , has been listed at $280 for the 50MHz 601 and $374 for the 66MHz version of the chip in quantities of 20,000 or more , according to sources familiar with Motorola 's plans — significantly below the Pentium and the 66MHz 80486DX2 , although the Pentium will outperform the PowerPC chips ; systems that use the PowerPC are expected to be priced at from $3,000 to $4,000 . |
| 11 | In addition , its future is uncertain , as the original funding from the GLC is known to be running short . |
| 12 | The GLC was meant to be the dominant authority ( see section 1 ) , with the LTE as its instrument , and the power of the GLC to make grants to the LTE ‘ for any purpose ’ was strong evidence of this . |
| 13 | He replied that although the PVQ was designed to be completed easily , the JMU was always open to suggestions for improvements . |
| 14 | G Those discussions were fitted into a regular CDP meeting which itself discussed ‘ polytechnic autonomy ’ , and in which a variety of views were recorded — the institutions were at different stages of development ; the CNAA had established national status and its degrees were accepted currency ; the CNAA was known to be giving serious attention to ways and means of giving greater freedoms to experienced colleges ; emphasis should not be placed on charters as such … . |
| 15 | Perhaps because the Galapagos was bound to be an explosive issue , and he was still unsure of his findings , Darwin decided to publish a more general Zoology of the Beagle 's voyage on some uniform plan . |
| 16 | As English is destined to be the international language of the twenty-first century , the OED is destined to be the world 's foremost reference book . |
| 17 | Lincoln 's role in determining the future of the Barnes is bound to be contested bitterly . |
| 18 | The ANC leadership rejected this as a " propaganda ploy " , although by the end of the month the ANC was reported to be under intense diplomatic pressure to attend the " peace summit " . |
| 19 | The report 's conclusions on the SIB are expected to be echoed in a nearly completed report to the Treasury from the SIB chairman , Andrew Large , which was commissioned in the wake of the Maxwell pensions scandal . |
| 20 | The HAPCs are thought to be the manometric equivalent of the mass movements seen during radiological studies although not all HAPCs are associated with mass movements . |
| 21 | The Maldives was judged to be at particular risk due to its composition of low-lying coral islands and atolls . |
| 22 | But working near the top of the BBC is said to be a nightmare , with Checkland a lame-duck , Birt not speaking out and Hussey acting like an executive . |
| 23 | And that is why the SDP was declared to be a spent force the instant David Owen said that it would not be contesting every seat at the next election . |
| 24 | At the time , the CCCP was considered to be the third , fourth or fifth largest wine producing country in the world ; any reliable figures were buried in bureaucratic tangle . |
| 25 | If a child is aged under 2 then any provision which is made for him/her by the LEA is stated to be special educational provision ; in the case of a child aged 2 or over it is ‘ educational provision which is additional to , or otherwise different from , the educational provision made generally for children of that age in schools maintained by the LEA ’ . |
| 26 | The man most concerned to limit the publicity given to the Memorie was said to be Bernard Berenson . |
| 27 | Almost 80 per cent of the female seals in the Baltic are known to be sterile , primarily as a result of PCB poisoning , and by the year 2000 , grey seals in the Baltic may well have become extinct . |
| 28 | The Ardakkeans were said to be superhumanly strong and invulnerable to most life-threats . |
| 29 | The objective of the EMS was defined to be the creation of " a zone of monetary stability in Europe " through the " monetary cooperation " among the EC member countries . |
| 30 | The separate inquiry into the disappearance of state funds through the CPSU was scheduled to be completed by July . |