Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schooldays are said to be the happiest days in your life but for Asian children in Britain they are often the harshest . |
| 2 | Category A prisoners are reckoned to be the most dangerous to the public if they escape . |
| 3 | Illustrations are seen to be a motivating factor for poor readers , but they are otherwise considered to be a distraction and ‘ do not themselves make the reading level of the prose any lower ’ ( ibid . |
| 4 | These peaks are believed to be a consequence of the inner Lindblad resonance ( ILR ) of the galactic bar . |
| 5 | Teeth are believed to be a more accurate indicator of exposure to lead than blood , which fluctuates from month to month . |
| 6 | These solutes are thought to be the origin of cements within the subsurface , either as quartz overgrowth cements ( e.g. Sibley & blatt , 1976 ) or as calcite cements . |
| 7 | Demonstrations over the Gatt agreement to reduce French farming exports are feared to be the tip of the iceberg . |
| 8 | Its radiation emissions are said to be a severe health risk to local residents . |
| 9 | Vertical loyalties within groups are taken to be the common base for the preservation of conformity as each individual knows their place and takes on a role consistent with that place . |
| 10 | Waiting lists are known to be an inaccurate indicator of need , as many doctors do not refer patients if they know the wait will be long ( this is as true for instance for hearing aids as it is for hip replacements ) . |
| 11 | ( Meliaceae ) but durian seeds are so damaged that ground-walking animals are thought to be the principal effective agents possibly sun-bears , or even tigers . |
| 12 | A second and more serious line of criticism is that the empress 's claims to real enlightenment and concern for the welfare of her subjects are shown to be a hollow pretence by the intensification and geographical extension of serfdom in Russia during her reign . |
| 13 | The computer-enhanced pictures are considered to be a vast improvement on the old photo-fit style in terms of clarity , and detectives are hoping the men will come forward quickly . |
| 14 | Details of the types of knives used in crimes are not generally available either , but ordinary kitchen and craft knives are believed to be the most commonly used in attacks , rather than the kind that the hon. Gentleman mentioned as being advertised . |
| 15 | Dutch insurers are reckoned to be the boldest European investors in private placements , but are now proceeding cautiously . |
| 16 | We focus our attention on the three months following the eruption , when the SO 2 -induced perturbations are expected to be the most significant . |
| 17 | In some respects these accounts are similar to those in the experimental situation where key characteristics were found to be a common strategy . |
| 18 | The way of life argument was often used against closure since schools were held to be an important aspect of local life since the loss of the teacher and the school building seemed like a sentence of death for the community . |
| 19 | Key variables were thought to be the size of the selected area , the population characteristics and the traffic structure . |
| 20 | The earlier stations were not as successful as their British counterparts but later designs were thought to be an improvement . |
| 21 | Er lots of languages have very complex kinship terms where in English they 're fairly simple , er I mean someone who is one of your parents brothers is going to be an uncle , no matter what . |
| 22 | A word on these computers is defined to be a set of four consecutive bytes ( 32 bits ) , and is specified by the store address of its left-hand byte . |
| 23 | The management of these relationships is expected to be an important determinant of success in the use of new technology by customer firms and should provide a route for product innovations by suppliers . |
| 24 | But , ethical issues aside , simply parading specialisms before existing , if not new , clients is believed to be a non-starter . |
| 25 | The self pride he showed in the first two books is shown to be the very cause of his gradual destruction and inner hell . |
| 26 | The short-run inability to unscramble market signals was presumed to be the particular affliction of suppliers , i.e. the suppliers of commodities and the suppliers of factor services . |
| 27 | A a lad that wore pyjamas was considered to be a bit of a a sissy type of a lad you see . |
| 28 | He bewildered his audience for a moment , and then moved them , when he suddenly turned a political invective about government 's neglect of the environment into a lament that one of the sad losses was going to be the poetry of the countryside , the pastorals of a Vergil or a Theocritus . |
| 29 | The estimate of 11 per cent of stock in use as second or holiday homes was felt to be an underestimate , and it was suspected that the real figure was nearer 26 per cent by 1980 . |
| 30 | House sites are seen to be a scarce resource , by both Shetlanders and incomers , basically because the amount of sites given planning permission by the local authority is ever decreasing . |