Example sentences of "[Wh pn] be [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also necessary , in areas where student members are small , to select experts who are seen to be neutral and do not have a conflict of interest with the college . |
| 2 | The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has been asked to look at the allegations and to arrange for certain persons who are said to be able to shed new light on the case to be interviewed . |
| 3 | Brilliant story of three sisters who are determined to be famous but are dogged by tragedy . |
| 4 | Health authorities and local authorities are sometimes willing to pay high prices to buy care for those one or two individuals who are felt to be unmanageable in their own services . |
| 5 | Can you imagine it comrades , you would have a position in which we attempt to put into place a bureaucratic list of people who are meant to be Labour supporters , they are n't Labour members . |
| 6 | But such an individual usually defines him or herself against a body of people who are meant to be homogeneous and standard-issue . |
| 7 | Clary , still remained the tramp , he loved to be , six days of the week , one along with many who are taken to be inhuman . |
| 8 | It went on : ‘ No persons suffering from infectious diseases , dropsies , disordered in their intellect , nor any who are considered to be incurable will be admitted as in-patients , except in special cases . |
| 9 | Their aim is to give aid to groups of people who are held to be disadvantaged for any reason — because of ethnic origin , sex , sexual preference , age , unemployment or any kind of disability . |
| 10 | A high percentage of the homosexuals who are found to be positive , practise fellatio and , in particular , allowed ejaculation to take place in the mouth and then swallowed the semen . |
| 11 | Those who are alleged to be unfit to practise by virtue of illness can be referred by the Investigating Committee , Professional Conduct Committee or any concerned citizen to a separate UKCC Health Committee , so that their cases may be considered with medical reports and advice available . |
| 12 | Female staff of childbearing age , particularly women who are known to be pregnant , require special protection from radiation hazards and there are codes of practice which apply to radiotherapy and X-ray procedures . |
| 13 | People who are used to having responsible jobs at home or in the office and who are known to be good managers and organizers can not understand why suddenly the simplest task seems to be beyond them , and this makes them feel out of control and very unsafe . |
| 14 | Brothers , choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom . |
| 15 | We believe that the joint working party 's recommendations should include the routine use of such a device for people caring for patients who are known to be positive for HIV or hepatitis B virus and for high risk patients . |
| 16 | Whereas most research on listening uses academically successful individuals as subjects ( typically undergraduates ) , the project studies the behaviour of 14-16 year olds in secondary schools , being particularly concerned with differences in strategies , or use of strategies , between those who are judged within the school system to be academically successful and those who are judged to be unsuccessful . |
| 17 | Immediately after the first wave of evacuation had taken place there was a chorus of outrage from reception areas about some of the evacuees — evidently those from the poorest homes in inner-city areas — who were said to be filthy , verminous , incontinent , ungrateful and thoroughly ill-mannered . |
| 18 | Before it left , the UN mission compiled information on 1,100 people who had been detained , were alleged to have been detained or who were said to be missing , back to 1977 . |
| 19 | The Nightriders collected cash for Children in Need from passengers who were said to be full of Christmas spirit . |
| 20 | Second , and more important , even nobles who were determined to be recalcitrant expressed their recalcitrance in many different ways . |
| 21 | But some drivers who were assessed to be unsafe admitted that their peers encouraged them to drive fast . |
| 22 | The leadership was actually a collective one rather than a personal domination , and Law recognized his obligation to take the advice of those who were seen to be worthy of consultation by the party as a whole . |
| 23 | What you had was , F B I agents who were trained to be proactive , to be to do things , to force a conclusion . |
| 24 | War weariness was increasing the unpopularity of the Whigs , and although the Tories were happy with Queen Anne , the prospect of the succession of the House of Hanover , foreign Lutherans who were known to be sympathetic to the Whigs , was not particularly appealing to them . |
| 25 | However , of the significantly reduced number who were found to be poor , 68 per cent were pensioners ( table 5.1 of A. B. Atkison , ‘ Low pay and the cycle of poverty ’ , in Low Pay , ed . |
| 26 | Table VI summarises the number of subjects in each subgroup who were accepted for respite and day sitting services and who were found to be eligible for the mobility and attendance allowances before and after the interview . |
| 27 | On March 21 , Israeli commandos infiltrated southern Lebanon north of the " security zone " ( created by Israel in 1985 ) , killing two people in the village of Louwaizeh who were alleged to be pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrillas . |
| 28 | They were to elect , as members of the Committee , four verderers , who were required to be resident in one of the forest parishes . |
| 29 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 30 | On April 1 King Birendra , at the request of Prime Minister Marich Man Singh Shrestha , dismissed nine ministers who were reported to be unhappy with the government 's tough line . |