Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps elephants are meant to be fat , ’ says her son Luke plaintively . |
| 2 | Payton had been hauled down by Penney , so justice was seen to be done when he hit Mohan 's free-kick past Veysey . |
| 3 | Bright states in his introduction that the " audience is seen as academic and professional , but interdisciplinary ; thus articles are designed to be intelligible and useful to people in related disciplines " ( Vol.1 , p. ix ) . |
| 4 | Thus God is said to be trinity in unity , the second person of the trinity becoming incarnate in Christ . |
| 5 | Incidentally , in World War 1 you were shot — and many people were shot — by a firing squad of their own regiment , thus Buster was sentenced to be flogged . |
| 6 | After the demonstration , television film crew members , who only yesterday morning were reported to be ‘ under surveillance , ’ were lecturing to their own crowds of supporters . |
| 7 | One month later Glassford was reported to be completing the work of preparing nominal votes , and in this his lawyer , who lacked experience in such matters , was being helped by the agent of Lord Dundas , who clearly considered him still an ally , but on August 6th , Glassford removed such illusions by making it quite plain that he meant what he had said about his price for support , and denied that he was in any way pledged to Lord Dundas : |
| 8 | Previously it was shown that the SM1 and SM2 MHC isoforms were produced by alternative splicing of a single gene ( 6 ) but both isoforms were shown to be co-expressed in all smooth muscle cell types ( 4,5,6 ) . |
| 9 | The result is that often illnesses are considered to be purely physical when in fact they have an emotional trigger , as in the case of the lady who developed rheumatoid arthritis after her visit to Flanders , or a mental or possibly even spiritual precipitating factor . |
| 10 | Seeing that Alina was upset by the memory , she said , ‘ You do n't have to go on , ’ but now Alina was determined to be heard . |
| 11 | And now Butcher is set to be the first big name to move into management . |
| 12 | However , right now USL is believed to be back on the road to going public . |
| 13 | In Victorian times more than now boys were enjoined to be little men . |
| 14 | Here B is chosen to be the lower triangular part of A , including the diagonal , with all superdiagonal elements null . |
| 15 | Here B is chosen to be the diagonal matrix of the diagonal elements of A. Its reciprocal can therefore be written down . |
| 16 | But even Fujitsu is said to be more interested in Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and the new Unix axis it is forging with its affiliates — see opposite . |
| 17 | In his province , Huy remembered , Surere had tried to impose what he had interpreted as the supporting columns of a decent society : sexual responsibility and even monogamy were held to be the roots of a stable family ; sexual relations between members of that family were restricted to cousins . |
| 18 | Even doctors are allowed to be beautiful , you know . ’ |
| 19 | A little while ago children were expected to be down in the mines and underneath textile machinery , so they were n't actually treated as children , they were erm wager earners at a very low age , as soon as they could be walking they were doing a job , so I feel that we 're all children in fact , there is no great division between being a child and being an adult , and we in fact ca n't always cope with what 's happening and the shocks infect . |
| 20 | Sometimes authorities are understood to be limited by the kinds of acts which they can or can not regulate ( given some restrictive ways of classifying acts ) . |
| 21 | If an individual was right-handed , then speech was thought to be controlled by the left hemisphere ; if he was left-handed , then the right hemisphere was considered responsible . |
| 22 | Only those actions which are within the ‘ objects clause ’ of the memorandum of association may be undertaken , otherwise actions are deemed to be ultra vires ( outside the power of the company ) and do not bind it . |
| 23 | The other tribe , however , finds twins fearful , appalling , degrading , an aberration , because you see only animals have litters of young and therefore twins are considered to be inferior , a threat , so much so , in fact , that this latter tribe ritually murders them at birth . |