Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My blackness was seen to be a public and political fact , whereas my gayness was seen as a purely personal matter . |
| 2 | ‘ Working in a much smaller department , my work is bound to be more varied . |
| 3 | I always was attacked on the grounds that the world I wrote about did n't exist and it 's only in the last five to ten years here in Ireland , that my work is seen to be actually true . |
| 4 | When I was anorexic I had only dim feelings of resentment as to how my body was destined to be used , and the thought of anything as positive and specific as penetration never entered my mind . |
| 5 | The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there , a few steps back from the vehicle , gazing steadily into the interior . |
| 6 | And from then on , er there was never a hitch at all , my mother was considered to be one of the best butter maker i in the vicinity . |
| 7 | My boyfriend was allowed to be by my side throughout this operation . |
| 8 | Even some members of the Party and its affiliates were said to be included . |
| 9 | Border emerged from that verbal fracas with a flea in his ear from Australian officials , but their patience is said to be wearing thin . |
| 10 | Its decision was thought to be motivated by concern about pressure from the US , which threatened during the meeting to impose trade sanctions on countries that resumed commercial whaling . |
| 11 | Naming rape victims without their permission is thought to be a bad thing . |
| 12 | The gap between the ride and the swamp was a different matter , for if the children were attempting that route their progress was bound to be slow . |
| 13 | They were jailed after their visas were found to be forged . |
| 14 | The costs of its route are claimed to be about £2.5bn . |
| 15 | It was years since she 'd played , of course , and her fingers were bound to be rusty , but she could n't resist trying out some of the pieces of music she used to play so long ago . |
| 16 | Artists whose cash-pressed dealers have ended their stipends are said to be climbing on board . |
| 17 | Its teeth were said to be venomous , its flesh poisonous , its hair lethal ( causing suffocation if a few were accidentally swallowed ) , and its breath infectious , destroying human lungs and causing consumption . |
| 18 | In an age when décolletage mattered , her shoulders were said to be superb . |
| 19 | Exactly what the sea anemone gains from this relationship is not known , but crabs with anemones on their shells are known to be much less vulnerable to attack by octopuses . |
| 20 | The injured woman was admitted to hospital in Bristol with serious burns , where her condition is said to be comfortable . |
| 21 | A second and more serious line of criticism is that the empress 's claims to real enlightenment and concern for the welfare of her subjects are shown to be a hollow pretence by the intensification and geographical extension of serfdom in Russia during her reign . |
| 22 | They were taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital where their condition was said to be stable . |
| 23 | I 've never seen the sort of breathtaking squalor I witnessed there but give them a day when their neighbourhood is shown to be worth the world running through it , gratefully accepting water and candy from them at the roadside , and it 's amazing the way mutual mistrust can disappear . |
| 24 | ( It should be made clear that , in the vast majority of cases , the poison is so aged that its potency is thought to be negligible . ) |
| 25 | Their origin is thought to be the east Mediterranean and if the majority were being imported into Kent very few were allowed to pass further . |
| 26 | The phasor potential difference across the capacitance C lags 90° behind the phasor potential difference VR across the resistance R , assuming negligible loading of the output taken between terminals P and O , while All of these aspects are maintained in the phasor diagram of figure 8.12(b) and its geometry is seen to be such that the point P moves over a circle , centre O , as the resistance R is varied . |
| 27 | Her spectre is reputed to be that of Frances Culpepper , daughter of Lord John Freschville . |
| 28 | Britain 's voluntary , though gradual , conversion of the colonial Empire into the British Commonwealth of Nations would help her recovery as a great power : her military commitments to provide overseas garrisons should diminish , and her influence was expected to be enhanced as she became the central pivot of an association of free and independent states girdling the globe . |
| 29 | Although her candidacy was dismissed in most quarters as irrelevant , she was potentially the best-funded of the candidates ( although much of her wealth was believed to be inaccessible in frozen Swiss bank accounts ) and had the advantage of the remnants of her husband 's huge patronage network . |
| 30 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |