Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] are [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costs of its route are claimed to be about £2.5bn . |
| 2 | Artists whose cash-pressed dealers have ended their stipends are said to be climbing on board . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Within the other major departments , reflecting the other phases of design , their responsibilities are seen to be in responding to direct requests for schemes or analysis . |
| 7 | The Heritage was working out of Scarborough and her crew are believed to be from Bridlington . |
| 8 | The statements of their writers are presumed to be evidence of judicial decisions that have been lost and are therefore accepted if not contrary to reason . |
| 9 | The problems posed by authors changing their names are thought to be very limited . |
| 10 | The problems posed by authors changing their names are thought to be very limited . |
| 11 | Certain features of their performance are found to be correlated with and hence to convey information about direction and quality and distance of food source . |
| 12 | The type of government in power and its stability are bound to be of concern to expatriates . |
| 13 | If their discharges are seen to be causing harm they can be liable in the civil courts . |
| 14 | The self-regulation of the profession and the high standards demanded of its members are said to be the justification for the monopolies enjoyed by those engaging in the activity and by the restrictive practices permitted . |
| 15 | But its members are thought to be waiting to see what its British equivalent comes up with . |
| 16 | It is an issue both of absolute shortages of the wood .. and the distributions of available wood supplies between different uses and users … its causes are seen to be closely linked to the distribution of economic and political power between classes and social groups which determines who gets how much of a scarce resource . |
| 17 | A further advantage of the new index investment trust is that dealings in its shares are expected to be more liquid than in the individual shares of many smaller companies . |
| 18 | He is expected to leave within the next couple of weeks , and his lawyers are understood to be negotiating a settlement . |
| 19 | His attackers are thought to be in their 20s . |
| 20 | It is often at these times that the glider becomes stalled without the pilot noticing , and then his instincts are bound to be automatic as the nose and wing drops . |
| 21 | I do n't think our strengths are meant to be equal . |
| 22 | Of course , our conscious rationalizations of our own significance and the significance of our art are bound to be quite illusory . |