Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [vb pp] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For even at the generally modest level of competition that Beckenham offers , the British are shown to be dismal failures . |
| 2 | It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric . |
| 3 | However , anything which is non-zero is considered to be TRUE . |
| 4 | What Derrida argues is that any discourse which conceives of itself as scientific is bound to be logocentric : it will assume that it is transparent to its object and that that object is a stable entity . |
| 5 | The Japanese are said to be keen to invest more , but worry about the safety of their executives there . |
| 6 | The marginal costs of providing this particular public good are assumed to be constant . |
| 7 | By 1936 , the year of Rowntree 's second survey in York , 15 per cent of the poor were found to be old people , but this was still adjudged to be a far less significant cause of poverty than unemployment or low wages . |
| 8 | On the other hand , an excess of isolated teeth is all the more unlikely to be due to sampling error , and so excess is considered to be significant and to indicate preferential destruction of mandibles and maxillae . |
| 9 | In particular , his idea that the depths of the sea were lifeless was shown to be false with the deep-sea dredges begun in connection with the laying of telegraph cables beneath the oceans . |
| 10 | As the gap between the rich and the poor was perceived to be widening , students felt this was bad for them and the country as a whole . |
| 11 | Based on information from police and village heads , some of the 66 people still missing were believed to be dead ( although no other graves had been discovered ) , while the rest were reported to have joined a " trouble-maker group " which was said to be in hiding , according to an ABRI official . |
| 12 | No detailed analysis has been conducted on the geographical distribution of the responses , since the likelihood of being able to extrapolate reliable trends on the basis of the information available was thought to be slight . |
| 13 | Thus in the valuable Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Basin , bands about an inch thick are said to be correlatable over an area of some 20000 square miles and even microscopic varves within those bands can be traced over 185 miles . |
| 14 | The Sihanoukists and the KPNLF in particular were believed to be short of artillery shells . |
| 15 | Younger players in particular were expected to be clean-living . |
| 16 | The proximal end of the stent is adjusted to be level with the papillary orifice . |
| 17 | In general , materials that are carbon-based are said to be organic . |
| 18 | Moreover , Unix System Labs and Novell Inc are believed to be antagonistic and resentful of UI if for no other reason than it stands between them and their OEM customers . |
| 19 | Motorola Inc is said to be concerned that the move will fuel suggestions that the 88000 RISC chip is dead even though the company may be at least partially responsible for the shortfall in 88open 's funding . |
| 20 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc is expected to be able to produce up to 600,000 Am486 chips this year , and it could produce some 4m — where Intel Corp is expected to produce some 26m 80486 chips this year and another 31m of the things in 1994 . |