Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] is [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The future for me is going to be a vocal project . |
| 2 | The three remaining elders — Chen Yun , Wang Zhen and Song Renqiong , each of whom is believed to be in poor health — have conspicuously failed to put their name to a cause that , according to their past views , could lead to a ‘ capitalist restoration ’ . |
| 3 | Then bundle up your husband and boyfriend and send him to the woman whose name appears at the top of the list , you will receive 16,337 men — and one of them is bound to be a hell of a lot better than the one you already have . |
| 4 | ‘ If any of those bastards finds out that one of them is going to be a woman , there could be trouble , ’ Nicholson said flatly . |
| 5 | It seems to me that you get these big moments in the life of the church , as you do in the life of any institution , historically speaking , and it takes a long time for you to discover what the effect of them is going to be . |
| 6 | ‘ So obviously this guest cottage of yours is going to be just perfect . ’ |
| 7 | For instance , in South-Eastern fashion , I name that commodity the love of which is said to be the root of all evil as ‘ munny ’ ; my Birmingham friend calls it ‘ mon-ay . ’ |
| 8 | The US Agriculture Department has proposed the use of irradiation to kill salmonella and other bacteria in raw poultry , some 40 per cent of which is believed to be contaminated with salmonella . |
| 9 | A remarkable amount of it is alleged to be had through nominees . |
| 10 | As the responsibility of the Department of Employment , TVEI represents a determined government effort , practically by-passing the government department that has traditionally exercised responsibility for the schools and the school curriculum , to effect a swift and decisive orientation of the curriculum towards what is considered to be of immediate relevance to the skills and know-how required by a technological society . |
| 11 | Secondly of course there are opportunities and limitations to your , the resources that you have and I 've mentioned resources before , they can be economic , military , your education system erm you know at the moment the government 's expanding higher education , going up , well we 've , we 've touched already I think thirty percent now in higher education one of the reasons for that is not just to , for self-fulfilment for those who are erm involved in higher education as I 'm sure you 're all self-fulfilling yourself here today , it 's because of what is perceived to be a national need for a highly educated workforce . |
| 12 | Most importantly , John Smith has finally backed moves to rid the party of what is perceived to be the biggest unwanted legacy remaining of its heritage , the voting power of the trade unions . |
| 13 | The LTA magazine sells less than 10,000 copies in newsagents , and is subsidised through LTA membership fees to the tune of what is believed to be nearly £250,000 . |
| 14 | In an attempt to redress some of this balance , FlyPast has undertaken the compiling of what is believed to be the most comprehensive list of surviving World War Two Japanese aircraft yet published . |
| 15 | Certainly the recent discovery of what is believed to be a fifth example , at Trelleborg in Skåne , may add significantly to our knowledge . |
| 16 | For this reason it seems best to concentrate upon the Mustakimzade tradition in order to be able to set the Katib Celebi tradition against the background of what is felt to be a more probable account of the origins of the Muftilik . |
| 17 | The enclosure movement gave us much of what is said to be the traditional English landscape . |
| 18 | Mr no doubt of what is said to be the divine preference for called three . |
| 19 | Critique of what is claimed to be a new , over- positive stereotype of ageing which denies its problems . |
| 20 | Contemporary shot of what is claimed to be TE566 ‘ DU–A ’ in Czech service . |
| 21 | We shall examine the relation of this new humanism to the history of Western colonialism in a later chapter : it is not a question that Foucault himself elaborates in the course of what is claimed to be an , ethnology of Western culture' . |
| 22 | OIL prices remained firm yesterday after the latest flurry caused by Middle East tension and the start of what is expected to be a new round of petrol price rises . |
| 23 | And national guidance does contain some fairly specific indicators of what is expected to be structure plans . |
| 24 | Even the Member of Parliament , Jim Wallace , has been unable to obtain a copy of what is thought to be a damning indictment of Orkney Islands Council Social Work Department . |
| 25 | An aviation archaeologist in Normandy has dug up the remains of what is thought to be a Seafire , naval version of the Spitfire fighter , buried some 20 feet deep in a maize field near Rauville-la-Place . |
| 26 | Detectives and uniformed officers went to an address in Victor Road on Friday evening and seized a quantity of what is thought to be cannabis resin . |
| 27 | Including that holding , Owners was last night claiming the support of holders of more than 25 per cent of its shares , while Airtours , despite purchases in the market and the assent of what is thought to be Mercury Asset Management 's 15 per cent stake , claimed control of just 22.8 per cent . |
| 28 | Our expectation of what is deemed to be " creative " is equally vague . |
| 29 | Three-year and two-year diploma students should bear these figure in mind so they have some idea of what is going to be involved when they make an application for a further education grant to their local authority . |
| 30 | For this is the poetry of statement , of clear prose exposition of what is known to be true — ‘ This , which I know , I speak with mind serene ’ ( line 40 ) . |