Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [be] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goran now plays his futba in Turkey ( where money is rumoured to be good ) |
| 2 | These problems or investigations are expected to be diverse . |
| 3 | Of the four factors , a confiding tie with a husband or lover was seen to be the most important , in that this could protect against depression whether or not any one of the other three vulnerability factors was present . |
| 4 | The situation is more encouraging in the Netherlands , where parents were found to be involved in the care process ‘ to some extent ’ at least in 90 per cent of cases ; intensive involvement is , however , limited to 39 per cent of cases ( Ploeg and Scholte , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Even in such classic areas as the Mississippi delta , where sediment is thought to be accumulating rapidly , there is plenty of evidence to suggest that , after building up for a while , much of it is carried away again . |
| 6 | Why should the primary sufferer want to seek recovery if the quality of life without alcohol or drugs or other addictive substance or process is going to be no better than that of the family member ? |
| 7 | As a potential finesse on Mal , Mike also called Bob at Binary with a view to repossessing the option on ‘ Sonnet ’ plus development money at rolling compound — and redeveloping it somewhere else entirely , say at Red Giant , where Rodge was known to be very interested . |
| 8 | Given that membership of the school was universally perceived as a privilege , social and disciplinary problems were minimal and few special arrangements for pastoral care or counselling were thought to be necessary . |
| 9 | It is not a geographical accident of birth that determines whether an individual or group is going to be rich or poor , but a question of class location . |
| 10 | Where libraries were seen to be furthering school purposes there was a strong case for supporting them adequately , in both financial and wider terms . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope Luib 's bunch bloodied their nose for them , or things are going to be rather tight around here in a few moments . ’ |
| 12 | In Malaysia , a single tiger whisker ground up in the animal 's flesh or bone is thought to be powerful enough to kill an enemy . |
| 13 | I am aware — and so are local social workers — of at least one large housing estate in a provincial town where incest is thought to be the norm rather than the exception even today ; and such is the difficulty of its location and proof that cases coming to light are probably only the tip of an iceberg . |
| 14 | It is clear that where service is required to be effected in a Contracting State , the provisions of the convention , as given effect in national law or as a self-executing Treaty , will prevail over the general law as to service of process . |
| 15 | However where demand is known to be variable , for example if a large share of output is exported , any major internal expansion carries the danger of periodic over-capacity with consequent higher average costs just as the market is weakest . |
| 16 | Where TVEI is designed to be only a part of a pupil 's curriculum in the 14–18 age range , the CPVE has , in contrast , been designed explicitly for that section of the pupil population for whom A-levels are inappropriate , but who wish to achieve some further , more vocationally relevant qualification at school . |
| 17 | Any symptom or illness is intended to be a source of growth . |
| 18 | The Gooding-Sanken company will be located at Aberaman in the Cynon Valley where unemployment is estimated to be 21 per cent — the highest in south Wales . |
| 19 | Two of my colleagues from the BBC did , it is true , succeed in smuggling an entire satellite telephone system ( complete with dish ) through Iraqi customs shortly before the war began , and there are plenty of guns in private hands which can be bought ; but the Mukhabarat are everywhere , and it would be impossible to find out where Saddam was going to be at any given time . |
| 20 | Women are under more ideological pressure to maintain a perfect home in owner-occupied property , where standards are seen to be the individual responsibility of the owners , rather than being outside a tenant 's control as in rented property , although of course women in all forms of accommodation are subjected to these pressures . |
| 21 | Where children are considered to be ‘ at risk ’ within their families , the social service agencies have a statutory duty to monitor their continued safety , and to co-ordinate services to help their families look after them properly . |
| 22 | ( In the year 2000 the number of homes with either cable or satellite is expected to be just over 10 million . ) |
| 23 | The benefits of synergy or cross-fertilisation were claimed to be one of the main reasons for the link-up . |
| 24 | A renewal card or invoice was suggested to be sent each September to cover PAF , Insurance ( if required ) , QT fees and Membership . |
| 25 | At the bottom of the hierarchy of the production structure , where spirits are assumed to be crushed , have come a new army of workers — fresh , vivacious and increasingly angry . |
| 26 | She kept her eye on things generally , such as : tactfully suggesting to an under-housemaid ( caught out bypassing Lizzie 's careful instructions ) that pos were meant to be scrubbed till their inner china gleamed , as well as being emptied every morning . |
| 27 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 28 | In addition , they say that prisoners are going to be employed in the kitchens to work alongside civilian staff , because recruitment is so difficult . |
| 29 | We must also ensure that teaching is seen to be important , and a simple way to start is to insist that all doctors must document their experience when applying for jobs and that all appointments committees should ask about it . |
| 30 | Just as drugs were often used , even when their properties were poorly understood , to investigate physiological processes which they evidently modified , so X-rays were found to be a valuable tool in certain fields of study . |