Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one . |
| 2 | Several of the main fugitives from the present Colombian crackdown on the drugs industry are alleged to be sheltering in Panamanian safe-houses . |
| 3 | A more marginal case is where the defendant is seen to be raising his fists in anticipation of the fight . |
| 4 | It is hoped the slabs will block the conduit from which the main force of the lava is said to be bearing down ‘ like a train ’ , causing it to break up and cool . |
| 5 | But behind the scenes the 86-year-old reformer is believed to be working to bring his economic programme back to life . |
| 6 | The department is reported to be formulating ideas for new mechanisms to raise money from the private sector to pay for clean-up . |
| 7 | Professor Parker shows that this is not always a matter of dispassionate assessment but may turn on whether the research is seen to be delivering ‘ good ’ news or ‘ bad ’ news . |
| 8 | The US Air Force is going to be installing 350 DEC Alpha AXP workstations by April . |
| 9 | For the first time in its brief history , the semiconductor industry is going to be making , and trying to sell , three generations of memory chips in large volumes at the same time . |
| 10 | The Clinton administration is said to be looking again at the tangible objectives underlying the federal government 's support for research ( see page 776 ) , while the British government , in the shape of the Department of Trade and Industry , is seeking a more direct ( if a more avuncular than the American ) role in fostering industrial competitiveness . |
| 11 | Occasionally when an employee is found to be driving whilst uninsured on his employer 's business he can put forward a defence where he shows — |
| 12 | His condition is said to be giving cause for concern . |
| 13 | A seaborne US Marine task force was reported to be heading towards Kuwait having completed a " dress rehearsal " amphibious assault on the southern shore of the Saudi Arabian peninsula . |
| 14 | James Butterworth followed the hooligan careers of similar boys — ‘ Sam Smiler ’ and ‘ Thomas Tiddler ’ — along with the apprenticeship of ‘ Tiddler Junior ’ , because the British hooligan was thought to be getting younger in his time , as in ours : |
| 15 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in the last recession under this Government the collapse of manufacturing industry was said to be making it leaner and fitter to face the future ? |
| 16 | Pockets of Iraqi troops continued to resist until Feb. 2 , and fighting was reported to be continuing between allied forces and retreating Iraqi units elsewhere in the border region . |
| 17 | However , this attempt to end the NPFL offensive failed and fighting was reported to be continuing as the month ended , with the ECOMOG headquarters in the capital a particular target of the rebels . |
| 18 | Violence was believed to be declining ; the last war involving more than two great powers had been fought in the Crimea , far away , and the assumptions which governed fighting were more humane than ever before . |
| 19 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 20 | After it was unpacked the plaque was found to be missing . |
| 21 | Clwyd county council and Cardiff city council are reported to be proposing a reduction in their council taxes . |
| 22 | South Glamorgan county council and the Vale of Glamorgan borough council are reported to be planning increases limited to three percent or below . |
| 23 | Interest was also expressed over another site in the village , adjacent to the school , which East Hampshire District Council were said to be looking at with a view to a second affordable housing development . |
| 24 | Under the no boundary proposal one learns that the chance of the universe being found to be following most of the possible histories is negligible , but there is a particular family of histories that are much more probable than the others . |
| 25 | Sun is believed to be keeping a low profile on the suit lest it catch flak for restricting the clone trade . |
| 26 | Sun is said to be going into direct competition with Apple Computer Inc spin-out General Magic Inc and has already licensed designs for its nomadic computer to two Japanese companies , and is in talks with French and German consumer electronics companies . |
| 27 | In July , looking thin and strained , the Princess is said to be suffering from post-natal depression during the Balmoral holidays . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the condition of the two year old boy is said to be improving . |
| 29 | In the drawing the arrow is seen to be pulling inwards the boundary of the information field . |
| 30 | In the North York Moors National Park , bracken is estimated to be encroaching into the moorland at a rate of about 120 hectares a year . |