Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of a complete index was demonstrated to be so important to bureaux workers that plans to cut the reissue of the index from four times a year to three were shortlived . |
| 2 | Overall , though the various criminal justice agencies were seen as differentially culpable with regard to racial discrimination , racially prejudiced attitudes were thought to be widespread . |
| 3 | It does n't mean that your regional accent is going to be bullied out of you , so that you are unable to use it ever again — on the contrary , your accent may in all probability be your most interesting and valuable possession . |
| 4 | The sufferings of the young when first they go away from home and try to hold their own with cruel contemporaries are felt to be very great even when they are not . |
| 5 | Labour hours are expected to be limited to 800 next year . |
| 6 | Metallic hydrogen is expected to be produced at very high pressures because the molecules of molecular hydrogen ( H 2 ) will be forced so close together that each of the two hydrogen atoms in the H 2 molecule is attracted to atoms in neighbouring molecules as much as to its partner . |
| 7 | It is an inescapable fact that , despite all the care taken in passing legislation , some statutory provisions when applied to the circumstances under consideration in any specific case are found to be ambiguous . |
| 8 | ‘ Political progress is going to be very difficult to achieve as the electorate is not at present united enough to force the politicians to compromise . |
| 9 | The rate of technical progress is assumed to be determined exogenously , which means that the steady-state rate of growth of output is unaffected by taxation ( it is equal to . |
| 10 | But at the same time , it is clear that as soon as the war was over the purely economic contradictions were bound to be excessively aggravated . |
| 11 | But there it is , and outside and foreign firms will put money in , especially if subsidized by temporary government measures , for as you know , public investment in private industry is judged to be ideologically correct , while public investment for public and community concerns is judged ideologically to be harmful , but the firms are interested in making money out of the region if I may so put it , not in sustaining world promotion and healthy living in the region . |
| 12 | Transcription of the exogenous sequences was shown to be alpha-amanitin resistant , which indicates that the procyclin/PARP promoter was active . |
| 13 | Before we plunge into that debate we ought to recognize that recruitment to elite positions in the public and private sectors is said to be highly meritocratic . |
| 14 | Some stolen stock was allowed to be recovered by the traditional method — not , it can be imagined , without amusement on the part of the Masai , who had spent forty years resisting the government 's efforts to abolish that fighting spirit which was now deemed so commendable . |
| 15 | People lacking supportive relationships were expected to be prone to depression whether or not they experienced major difficulties or threatening events . |
| 16 | At the end of February total casualty figures among the 700,000-strong allied force were estimated to be at least 131 killed in action and 100 in accidents or other incidents . |
| 17 | High support was found to be associated with a low rate of illness , and a high level of events with a high rate of illness . |
| 18 | A lot of different disciplines were going to be dragged in . |
| 19 | The Cornish giants were reputed to be a stupid and murderous bunch , fond of hurling boulders around the countryside . |
| 20 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 21 | So in an attempt to upgrade the tournament and I suspect to make sure that the host nation of the top division is bound to be involved in that division , the number of teams in each division has been increased from sic to eight . |
| 22 | If the coordinate system is set along the axis of the shaft , only one rotational freedom is seen to be allowable . |
| 23 | These terminal direct repeats are believed to be generated by the mechanism through which migrating transposons reinsert themselves into the chromosomal DNA . |
| 24 | Most Iraqi cities are reported to be without electricity or telephones . |
| 25 | The empty houses are expected to be re-occupied . |
| 26 | Lots of suggestions , old cinemas were going to be used as a sort of permanent blues club . |
| 27 | Schools where the size of the delegated budget was seen to be adequate , or even generous , were able to take more steps along the path to staff involvement in decision-making than those with a reduced budget . |
| 28 | British Aerospace is said to be one of the key contenders to mount a rescue bid for Ferranti , a vital subcontractor providing navigational and radar equipment for BAe 's military aircraft . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | The commitment seismic programme is expected to be completed during 1993 . |