Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nirvana are also believed to be working on cover versions of several seminal punk tracks for possible future release . |
| 2 | Example In an essay on an eighteenth-century play , which has argued that the women in the play are generally seen to be a source of disruption or confusion , you could conclude by asking whether women are general sources of disruption , broadly understood , in eighteenth-century drama . |
| 3 | Families whose incomes are not more than 40 per cent above the sb level are often considered to be ‘ living on the margins of poverty ’ ; in 1985 , seven in ten of all one parent families had incomes below this level compared with two out of ten two parent families . |
| 4 | Any of these packages which are not currently managed by the specified user are temporarily updated to be so , provided the current manager is a descendant of the specified user . |
| 5 | In general , Beccaria 's philosophy exhibits what could be regarded as a curious combination of concern with the rights of the individual under the social contract on the one hand , and utilitarian reductivism on the other — curious because rights theory and utilitarianism are often thought to be philosophically incompatible . |
| 6 | Another strand of our present voluntary sector are the self-help groups which of course are also going to be extremely individual , and one third point , Madam Chairman , the development of not for profit companies and things like that could also have a very individual strand to them as well since they sound a little bit like our existing small business sector under a community name . |
| 7 | The effects of serotonin on gastrointestinal motor function are generally believed to be mediated through myenteric plexus neurons . |
| 8 | The proximal colon and the small intestine are also thought to be dysfunctional in IBS . |
| 9 | In every part of Europe , twenty workmen serve under a master for one that is independent ; and the wages of labour are everywhere understood to be , what they usually are , when the labourer is one person and the person who employs him another . |
| 10 | In the three examples given at the beginning , having to do with the sound of the traffic , the windscreen wipers , and the warm left knee , a cause and each condition are naturally taken to be required for the effect , as distinct from alternatively required . |
| 11 | ( The privately rented sector has low values for a number of reasons : it contains a larger non-married proportion , and the form of stock is often considered to be less suitable for childrearing . |
| 12 | The result is ultimately destined to be a four-track flop . |
| 13 | If the end result is eventually going to be thrown away ; memos , reports , flyers , price lists and so on , then page printer output is probably more than adequate . |
| 14 | Coaching is also beginning to be recognized as an essential tool which has to be developed systematically , not left to chance or the interest of a few concerned managers . |
| 15 | We have found evidence for a possible aetiological link between anal cancer and cervical cancer , ; for which a sexually transmitted agent is strongly suspected to be involved . |
| 16 | Serum gastrin concentration is also known to be raised in patients with H pylori infection , and this is seen in the non-uraemic patients in the present study . |
| 17 | Copywrite fraud is now thought to be costing software companies £20m pounds a year . |
| 18 | Copywrite fraud is now thought to be costing software companies £20m pounds a year . |
| 19 | This instrument is thus seen to be a splendid complement to the other members of the woodwind fraternity . |
| 20 | Britain 's clinical research is widely acknowledged to be in very bad shape . |
| 21 | Research is commonly taken to be the specialist and reserved occupation of theorists , an activity which is carried out in detachment from the immediacy of actual events and requiring knowledge and expertise of a kind which only academic intellectuals can legitimately claim to have . |
| 22 | Kurk wool is generally considered to be among the very best available . |
| 23 | Hidden for centuries under plaster , the architrave of the main doorway is now revealed to be a monumental inscription from the time of the Emperor Trajan , which must have come from either the Roman baths or the imperial mint , both of which are nearby . |
| 24 | Greater examination of vehicles entering the complex is now expected to be introduced , and additional security staff may be deployed . |
| 25 | The kraken is generally believed to be a type of giant cephalopod which normally lives and feeds at the bottom of the ocean . |
| 26 | In fact the speed of light is now defined to be a constant . |
| 27 | Non-deglutitive motor activity of the oesophagus is usually considered to be a sign of disordered motility . |
| 28 | This anomaly is now seen to be largely explained by the intervention of the patron — the broker land agent — who set the objective for both lawyer and client in two of the three cases . |
| 29 | The theorem is now recognised to be older than Pythagoras , much of whose mathematics has an eastern origin . |
| 30 | The delayed Subsystem is now scheduled to be generally available in the first quarter of 1993 . |