Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Robin Tavistock 's table , where I was honoured to be seated , was a superb square birthday cake , iced in Robin 's racing colours , with fifty tiny candles in miniature gold candelabras . |
| 2 | That feeling that you are not where you are meant to be . |
| 3 | Interaction between judges is probably more significant in the United States with the stable membership on the Supreme Court , but even in Britain the phenomenon of ‘ opinion deference ’ , whereby one or more judges defers to the opinion of another because he or she is acknowledged to be an expert or to have seniority , is not unknown . |
| 4 | Where we are held to be contracting carriers for the purposes of air or sea carriage please note that our liability is limited in the manner provided by relevant international conventions , ‘ special contract ’ with Governments or UK statute law . |
| 5 | The effect of trees on foundation design was discussed earlier but a physical inspection of the site should include the location of all major trees , particularly where they are required to be retained under a tree preservation order and may therefore affect layout and density . |
| 6 | If you do manage to overcome this one , the next problem is to simulate the migratory tendencies of moving upstream to fresher waters where they are reported to be pelagic egg-layers . |
| 7 | In experiments on rats it has been shown that where experimenters expected rats to be maze-bright , the rats fulfilled their expectation and where they were expected to be maze-dull the rats also fulfilled expectations . |
| 8 | In 1942 he was persuaded to go into hospital , where he was said to be schizophrenic . |
| 9 | The policeman gave chase but one of the suspects turned and shot him twice in the back w He was rushed to Homerton Hospital where he was said to be in a serious condition early today . |
| 10 | He performed only 24 hours within the first 12 months of the order , and was brought before the Crown Court where he was found to be in breach of the order , which was revoked . |
| 11 | A second received burns over 60pc of his body and was taken by helicopter to hospital , where he was reported to be seriously ill . |
| 12 | Where it is felt to be important , information on number can therefore be encoded lexically . |
| 13 | The CBI table highlights the fact that local laws may apply to merger proposals , not only on competition grounds but also on other grounds , for example where it is deemed to be in the national interest to prevent foreign control in certain sectors such as maritime and air transport , banking and insurance . |
| 14 | On the wider issue , it has been made clear , not simply from what I have said but through what I have done over many years — in an earlier ministerial capacity and in my present one — that we are more than willing to take action where it is shown to be necessary , once we are sure that such action would be well-judged . |
| 15 | Another version of the bronze lion , from the collection of Dr Simon in Berlin , is illustrated in Bode 's 1908 book on Italian Renaissance bronzes where it is considered to be sixteenth-century . |
| 16 | However , even where it was acknowledged to be still relevant — in the colonies of the European empires — the Congress of the International was no more clear . |
| 17 | To check for a developmental role for these hypersensitive sites , the presence of the transgene was tested in newborn mice and where it was shown to be expressed ( data not shown ) . |
| 18 | The offeror will have to depend on publicly-available sources of information and whatever else it can obtain or it is required to be given under the Code ( see para 5.8 below ) . |
| 19 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 20 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 21 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 22 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 23 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm a sister , so I 'm bound to be a dragon . ’ |
| 25 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 26 | TV funnygirl Pamela Stephenson demonstrates that she 's determined to be the star of this show . |
| 27 | When found , her behaviour was such that she was thought to be mentally deficient : |
| 28 | And it was wonderful to have heard from Liz today , when her cousin had rung to wish her a happy birthday , that she was expected to be discharged from hospital in about a week 's time . |
| 29 | The fact that she was known to be on a special complex carbohydrate diet designed to help her regain weight did n't help matters . |
| 30 | Detectives in Colchester expressed concern for Lisa 's safety following her disappearance and revealed that she was known to be upset over personal problems . |