Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [verb] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Community makes laws which are intended to be binding upon and within member states . |
| 2 | However , even in these cases , there is an important difference from the fully oppositional groups , which characteristically begin with attacks on prevailing art forms and cultural institutions , and often with further attacks on the general conditions which are believed to be sustaining them . |
| 3 | This ejected fine dust and ash particles into the atmosphere , which are believed to be accelerating the chemical reactions by which ozone is destroyed by chlorine compounds . |
| 4 | Bristol claims its approach to the issue is more viable and ultimately more independent of Microsoft than other solutions from firms which are believed to be working on the same problem . |
| 5 | The aim : to persuade countries to reduce their output of greenhouse gases , which are thought to be warming the world faster than ever before . |
| 6 | ( a ) Conventions are non-legal rules of constitutional behaviour which are considered to be binding upon those who operate the constitution but which are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in Parliament . |
| 7 | Still , the limping aircraft , which were assumed to be carrying arms , were not challenged . |
| 8 | Local education authorities which were found to be abusing their powers risked direct action by Whitehall , he said in a letter to 108 chief education officers in England . |
| 9 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 10 | One of the problems to have emerged is , however , the relativity of the concept of special educational need , which is said to be causing ‘ uncertainty and confusion ’ amongst LEAs , and consequently ‘ variations in the extent of and provision for special educational needs from LEA to LEA ’ . |
| 11 | A school which is seen to be supporting its clients is much more likely to be supported in turn , by the community it is there to serve . |
| 12 | Pakistan 's military intelligence service , the ISI , which is assumed to be directing the attack , has lost face . |
| 13 | As well as being aesthetically pleasing , trees absorb carbon dioxide which is thought to be making holes in the ozone layer . |
| 14 | Trapped in a cost-cutting spiral , Computone and Specialix — plus Chase Research Inc which is rumoured to be courting a buyer — are being forced to streamline their organisations . |
| 15 | The problem is compounded by increased water consumption — up by 70 per cent per head compared to 30 years ago — and leakage in the supply system , which is estimated to be running at around 20 per cent . |
| 16 | Schools in Lothian have been asked to commence Testing in the summer term but only have to test one group in each class in either Language or Mathematics , if that class has a group which is deemed to be moving from one stage to the next . |
| 17 | About midday on 29th. the Navy in Malta suddenly asked me whether I could search along the Greek coast for the remnants of the Italian Fleet which was believed to be escaping northwards . |
| 18 | These typical judgements against dwindling authority formed part of a wider fabric of anxiety in this era , and there were some quite delirious fears in circulation about a supposed deterioration — both physical and moral — among the British people which was believed to be producing new and unprecedented forms of violence and depravity . |
| 19 | External locus of control was measured on four items , no more than one of which was allowed to be missing . |
| 20 | The talks which Lewis gave to the RAF were on such basic issues as ‘ Why we think there is a Right and Wrong ’ , and from such simple beginnings he framed , in language which was meant to be arresting to ordinary men in the ranks , an exposition first of the theist position , then of the Christian religion . |
| 21 | In Birmingham , Alabama , you could be banished from the city for being seen talking to a Communist , which was held to be committing a public nuisance . |
| 22 | President Yeltsin was also facing trouble from Russia 's supreme legislature , which was reported to be tabling a motion that would strip him of his emergency powers . |
| 23 | Royal Marines intercepted the vessel which was found to be carrying cargo which is banned under the United Nations measures . |
| 24 | Do you know what 's going to be happening tomorrow ? |
| 25 | I know I should n't , but I 'm just going to pop forwards half an hour and see what 's going to be going on . |
| 26 | But the end of something ought to be the start of something else , and I ca n't yet feel what 's meant to be beginning . |
| 27 | ‘ This is what 's meant to be forming our character , remember ? |
| 28 | And how do you hit the base of a thumb without dislocating what 's meant to be grasping a ski-pole for the next week ? |
| 29 | As we mentioned in the first chapter of this book , egalitarian marriage is now widely promoted as an ideal , but recent research indicates that there is a wide gulf between what is said to be happening in terms of sharing in marriage and what actually happens . |
| 30 | But envy is an ambivalent structure of feeling ; it involves the desire to possess certain idealized attributes of the Other and the desire to destroy them because they signify what is felt to be lacking . |