Example sentences of "[adv] they [be] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oblong block markers are n't centrally positioned either ; perhaps they 're meant to be offset as well … |
| 2 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 3 | Nevertheless they were held to be in contempt but , the strike having collapsed , no penalty was imposed . |
| 4 | Now they were assumed to be — well , gay , but not in the sense he acknowledged . |
| 5 | However , hags could assume many appearances ; often they were thought to be of enormous proportions , such as the giantess Grendel of Scandinavian legend , or the Blue Hag of the Highlands in Scotland , whose grey-blue cape was the swirling mist of the glens . |
| 6 | Well they 're bound to are n't they ? |
| 7 | Ah I mean they will soften anyway and they are comfortable it 's just that the sides are a bit rigid at the moment but then they 're bound to be and they will give . |
| 8 | If ever they lose the ability to scavenge energy , and put it to use in repairing their own fabric , then they are said to be dead ; and they begin immediately to fall apart . |
| 9 | There 's none of the rigorous logic and choreographed confusion of real farce , and director Jude Kelly labours under the mistaken impression that if the characters rush around and shout a lot , then they are bound to be funny . |
| 10 | They were hailed in the media as breakthroughs — and then they were shown to be wrong either by their own authors or by others . |
| 11 | Consequently they are said to be only suitable for the rarified world of HQ where men with no ‘ bottle ’ and the non-combatants have fled . |
| 12 | Instead they are designed to be ‘ read ’ in the following way . |
| 13 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 14 | Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores . |