Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , the accounts are required to be audited by an auditor appointed by the same Secretary of State . |
| 2 | The pennants date from 1974 , while the chains are believed to be five years older . |
| 3 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 4 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Dec. 27 reported that the debts were understood to be owed mainly to the Soviet Union and east European states , and possibly Iran . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly the most important group of works by the artist to appear at auction for many years , the canvases are said to be in extremely good condition . |
| 6 | He stressed that ‘ Heshang ’ was mainly intended to raise questions and some of the reactions were bound to be critical . |
| 7 | The second is that the proposals are considered to be impracticable for most small companies and their auditors . |
| 8 | The proposals were believed to be ‘ an attempt to cash limit a demand led service which will damage the doctor/patient relationship and be detrimental to patient care . ’ |
| 9 | The proposals were expected to be endorsed by the special party congress . |
| 10 | Day-to-day management of the groups was expected to be in the hands of experienced Western managers , with board chairmen being Polish nationals . |
| 11 | For the NHS , the main impact may well be on the labour force , as staff of all types have greater freedom to use their qualifications and experience wherever the rewards are perceived to be . |
| 12 | The products are claimed to be cabable of operating as a client to Novell 's NetWare SAA communications server across Novell and TCP/IP networks . |
| 13 | The thrombi are considered to be secondary to local injury , stasis or cor-pulmonale . |
| 14 | ( d ) Overflow can not occur on multiplication if the values are assumed to be integral , but multiplication of two operands both of which are the maximum negative number causes overflow under the fractional convention . |
| 15 | The savings are estimated to be more than £250,000 annually . |
| 16 | All the candidates were said to be in favour of free legislative elections and economic reform . |
| 17 | The animals were found to be carrying antibodies against a variant of the hepatitis virus , indigenous to Old World primates , but unknown in the New World outside captivity . |
| 18 | The density of the intrusions is assumed to be 2,800kgm -3 , the same as the surrounding material . |
| 19 | Some of the borders are designed to be cut out and appliquéd on to a host fabric , while others are an integral part of a plain background material . |
| 20 | These were analogous to the special migrant stations in the United States and Russia with the exception that most of the Tamils were expected to be only temporary migrants . |
| 21 | Second , it was written by a working party headed by John McFarlane , which meant that the non-practitioners were seen to be playing a prominent role in the APB 's activities and encouraging widespread debate . |
| 22 | The brothers are reputed to be amongst the richest men in France and Lagerfeld , born into money , waxes richer by the year . |
| 23 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 24 | The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on . |
| 25 | The winners are expected to be announced in October and the trials are likely to start in the new year . |
| 26 | The risks are thought to be very small : ( 1 ) because the balance of the natural environment is primarily controlled by the species already present which appear to operate to the detriment of new introductions ; and ( 2 ) because in new releases of microorganisms to date , all very closely monitored , there has been no evidence of any of them getting out of control or adversely affecting the environment . |
| 27 | The bottles are designed to be reused up to 20 times over a period of five years before being recycled into filling for toys , anoraks and duvets . |
| 28 | It took some time , but after 36 buns and a 40-ounce bottle of whiskey had been used up , the gulls were found to be reacting admirably and appeared to be enjoying the ‘ experiment ’ as much as the engineers . |
| 29 | The remainder of the plates were taken to be placed on the table , and she began rolling the cutlery into paper napkins , her fingers shaking as she did so . |
| 30 | In all cases the movements are assumed to be continuous . |