Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent introduction of pilot one-stop-shops , which are intended to be the main local point of access to and promotion of all DTI services , and the diagnostic and consultancy brokerage services which are being developed to succeed the Consultancy Initiatives , will play a key role in helping firms , in particular smaller firms , to access the technology which they need as part of their business and marketing plans . |
| 2 | RIG owners are expected to be the main losers from oil tax changes announced in the Budget , according to a study issued yesterday by the Edinburgh energy consultants , Wood Mackenzie . |
| 3 | Local authority general services — mainly district functions like refuse collection and disposal , recreation , tourism and the countryside , as well as functions shared with regions like industrial development — are expected to be the main beneficiaries of the extra money from the EC . |
| 4 | Who should inspect the schools for councils but ex-teachers , because they are deemed to be the only people properly qualified ? |
| 5 | Since 1948 , for example , the elderly have no longer been deemed to be the financial responsibility of their adult children or grandchildren . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus irreducible elements are seen to be the fundamental building blocks with respect to multiplication for the system Z. |
| 8 | This leads inevitably to great simplification or stylization , and , at the same time , to a clarification and accentuation of what are felt to be the significant features or details of the object depicted . |
| 9 | This is despite a major reduction in the proportion of calls performed by deputising services , the use of which had been said to be the main factor increasing the numbers of night visits . |
| 10 | As in previous attacks on the protesters , the real agents provocateurs are said to be the Western media egging on the rabble . |
| 11 | The differences are said to be the following : |
| 12 | Mycotoxins are produced by certain fungi and are suspected to be the deadly ingredient in yellow rain . |
| 13 | Such conditions , shown in Fig. 8.1 B and D , have been shown to be the main ones responsible for damaging marine structures . |
| 14 | ( Meliaceae ) but durian seeds are so damaged that ground-walking animals are thought to be the principal effective agents possibly sun-bears , or even tigers . |
| 15 | The word ‘ model ’ implies a physical description that does not attempt to be complete or accurate in detail but that encapsulates what are thought to be the central features of the phenomenon . |
| 16 | The C2s ( skilled workers to lower management , broadly ) are courted , flattered and endlessly solicited for their opinions , since they are thought to be the deciding factor in the election . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Some time later Philip wrote to say that , although he had not put his own name forward for consideration , he himself had been invited to be the official biographer and had accepted . |
| 19 | JB-4 ( Polysciences ) , a water-soluble resin , has been found to be the optimal embedding medium . |
| 20 | Muscular tension is often a factor , and may be considered to be the prostatic version of a tension headache . |
| 21 | Again the family member will argue that this is perfectly reasonable behaviour for any family : total commitment regardless of cost to self might be considered to be the moral basis of family life . |
| 22 | It has been argued that special attention should be focused upon the resilience and potential for recovery of the soil profile in view of the inputs induced by man ( Trudgill , 1977 , chapter 8 ) , and the importance of the problem is underlined by Toy ( 1982 ) in a review of accelerated erosion when he concludes that such erosion can be considered to be the pre-eminent environmental problem in the United States by virtue of its widespread occurrence and cumulative cost . |
| 23 | In the case of an unincorporated body , such as a partnership , the partners will be considered to be the joint authors of the work . |
| 24 | It can be considered to be the microelectronic equivalent of a mainframe 's central processing unit ( CPU ) . |
| 25 | This may well have been the intention , but in fact the implications are clear : demolition rates are too low , compulsory purchase of homes for redevelopment is inevitable in the future ; owner-occupiers can not be trusted to be the final arbiters of whether their homes arc unfit' ; and some existing environments may be so drab as to be not worth preserving' . |
| 26 | The fabric of our society would be seen to be the ridiculous thing it is . |
| 27 | Some caputs can be seen to be the logical successors to Roman and pre-Roman sites , the latter remaining as hillforts which may have been reoccupied in post-Roman times . |
| 28 | Even the notorious " one consonant or two ? " problem can sometimes be solved this way : " reccommend " can be seen to be the wrong spelling because the word is made by adding the prefix " re " to the word " commend " . |
| 29 | For that God has been conceived as male , and that biblical teaching which arose out of a patriarchal society has been held to be the revelation of God , must surely be seen to be the underlying facts of western culture which have led to discrimination against women . |
| 30 | This can immediately be seen to be the obvious solution which , on its own , gives rise to the Kasner metrics as will be shown in the next section . |