Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [be] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he and Frank Williams had confirmed the sport 's worst kept secret , the 30-year-old Londoner said : ‘ Both my sisters are going to be at home this Christmas and I 've got a job — so I guess I 'm buying the drinks . |
| 2 | Even some members of the Party and its affiliates were said to be included . |
| 3 | Martin Richmond and a friend were jailed after their visas were founds to be forged . |
| 4 | They were jailed after their visas were found to be forged . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Artists whose cash-pressed dealers have ended their stipends are said to be climbing on board . |
| 7 | who thought that their houses were going to be demolished er preferably on Christmas Eve or |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In an age when décolletage mattered , her shoulders were said to be superb . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She 'd progressed from a rather lowly start to her present place on the team with IMP just at the time when the true importance of the fuel companies and their technicians was beginning to be appreciated by the general public , or at least those aficionados who followed the world of Grand Prix racing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The futility of their efforts is deemed to be enough to teach them the lessons they need to learn . |
| 16 | So that all her figures are going to be all in one column so you can check them easily , you can add them up easily , you can find the total . |
| 17 | The problems posed by authors changing their names are thought to be very limited . |
| 18 | The problems posed by authors changing their names are thought to be very limited . |
| 19 | On fundamental questions of doctrine or canon law their decisions were expected to be unanimous . |
| 20 | If their discharges are seen to be causing harm they can be liable in the civil courts . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But its members are thought to be waiting to see what its British equivalent comes up with . |
| 23 | They were interested , but their fees were considered to be too high . |
| 24 | i it 's , it 's obviously a thing which , if one can possibly avoid it 's a good idea to and erm I must say it helped but it you do n't know what is helping because you know we do n't know what her symptoms are going to be . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The verificationist who is unwilling to admit the possibility of such facts ( in this he is a consistent anti-realist ) must therefore say that such a statement , though perhaps it may be determinately false when one of its consequences is observed to be false , still can not achieve determinate truth . |
| 27 | Secondly , if they accept those arguments , then before anything becomes public I then need to embark on a process of consultation with the residents themselves and with their relatives and with their staff , so that we can explain it carefully to them — what it 'll involve , the time scale , what their options are going to be , how we 'll go through this process and all the rest of it , all the ins and outs , and then I shall have to then go formally to a special meeting of the Social Services Committee , probably in April , to say that I 've carried out this consultation , that this is my recommendation as to the home the Council should choose , and if they agree that then we move into implementation . |
| 28 | They should be subject to punishment if their complaints were found to be vexatious and without foundation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In part this was due to the recent unification of the kingdom ; he and his successors were felt to be kings not of one but of a group of kingdoms . |