Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] be [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Where libraries were seen to be furthering school purposes there was a strong case for supporting them adequately , in both financial and wider terms . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Any symptom or illness is intended to be a source of growth . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( In the year 2000 the number of homes with either cable or satellite is expected to be just over 10 million . ) |
| 19 | The benefits of synergy or cross-fertilisation were claimed to be one of the main reasons for the link-up . |
| 20 | A renewal card or invoice was suggested to be sent each September to cover PAF , Insurance ( if required ) , QT fees and Membership . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , since representations of satyrs are often given negroid features , there is a suggestion that negroes were considered to be in some sense monstrous . |
| 27 | Whatever the problem , there is always a solution , so long as you are prepared to use your ingenuity , be flexible and remember that rules were made to be broken — or at least bent a little . |
| 28 | Where documents are admitted during the discovery process , RSC Order 27 rule 4(1) provides that copies are presumed to be ‘ true ’ unless authenticity is disputed by the other party . |
| 29 | Under the previous law , the offence was committed where the onlooker believed that violence was intended to be provoked or ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . ’ |
| 30 | " I 'm sorry to have asked for an explanation — you will understand that bankers are trained to be cautious . |