Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [be] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goran now plays his futba in Turkey ( where money is rumoured to be good ) |
| 2 | The situation is more encouraging in the Netherlands , where parents were found to be involved in the care process ‘ to some extent ’ at least in 90 per cent of cases ; intensive involvement is , however , limited to 39 per cent of cases ( Ploeg and Scholte , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Even in such classic areas as the Mississippi delta , where sediment is thought to be accumulating rapidly , there is plenty of evidence to suggest that , after building up for a while , much of it is carried away again . |
| 4 | As a potential finesse on Mal , Mike also called Bob at Binary with a view to repossessing the option on ‘ Sonnet ’ plus development money at rolling compound — and redeveloping it somewhere else entirely , say at Red Giant , where Rodge was known to be very interested . |
| 5 | Where libraries were seen to be furthering school purposes there was a strong case for supporting them adequately , in both financial and wider terms . |
| 6 | I am aware — and so are local social workers — of at least one large housing estate in a provincial town where incest is thought to be the norm rather than the exception even today ; and such is the difficulty of its location and proof that cases coming to light are probably only the tip of an iceberg . |
| 7 | It is clear that where service is required to be effected in a Contracting State , the provisions of the convention , as given effect in national law or as a self-executing Treaty , will prevail over the general law as to service of process . |
| 8 | However where demand is known to be variable , for example if a large share of output is exported , any major internal expansion carries the danger of periodic over-capacity with consequent higher average costs just as the market is weakest . |
| 9 | Where TVEI is designed to be only a part of a pupil 's curriculum in the 14–18 age range , the CPVE has , in contrast , been designed explicitly for that section of the pupil population for whom A-levels are inappropriate , but who wish to achieve some further , more vocationally relevant qualification at school . |
| 10 | The Gooding-Sanken company will be located at Aberaman in the Cynon Valley where unemployment is estimated to be 21 per cent — the highest in south Wales . |
| 11 | Two of my colleagues from the BBC did , it is true , succeed in smuggling an entire satellite telephone system ( complete with dish ) through Iraqi customs shortly before the war began , and there are plenty of guns in private hands which can be bought ; but the Mukhabarat are everywhere , and it would be impossible to find out where Saddam was going to be at any given time . |
| 12 | Women are under more ideological pressure to maintain a perfect home in owner-occupied property , where standards are seen to be the individual responsibility of the owners , rather than being outside a tenant 's control as in rented property , although of course women in all forms of accommodation are subjected to these pressures . |
| 13 | Where children are considered to be ‘ at risk ’ within their families , the social service agencies have a statutory duty to monitor their continued safety , and to co-ordinate services to help their families look after them properly . |
| 14 | At the bottom of the hierarchy of the production structure , where spirits are assumed to be crushed , have come a new army of workers — fresh , vivacious and increasingly angry . |
| 15 | Just as drugs were often used , even when their properties were poorly understood , to investigate physiological processes which they evidently modified , so X-rays were found to be a valuable tool in certain fields of study . |
| 16 | Neighbourhood Watch The Belmont Road scheme continues to work effectively although cars are continuing to be broken into especially when goods of value are on display . |
| 17 | Neighbourhood Watch The Belmont Road scheme continues to work effectively although cars are continuing to be broken into especially when goods of value are on display . |
| 18 | The first enlistments to the Macedonian army were reported on April 13 , although Albanians were said to be refusing to obey the call-up . |
| 19 | Police reported no new congestion on roads , although traffic was expected to be heavier because of the rain . |
| 20 | Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion . |
| 21 | Although Aurangzeb was held to be bold and valiant , he was capable of great dissimulation and hypocrisy . |
| 22 | Although London was bound to be the main target for attack , its preparations were seriously inadequate . |
| 23 | The presence of incomers was presented as the most immediate and tangible aspect of the general threat to the Shetland ‘ Way of Life ’ Although Shetland is reputed to be something of a melting pot , given the many different influxes of people over the centuries ( one native council official saw the typical Shetlanders as a bit of a ‘ mongrel ’ ) , these incomers were presumed to be somewhat different : most of them are here because their jobs brought them here ( those who are not here because of their jobs are eccentric ! ) , their stay will be temporary , there are more of them , they represent mainstream and hence dominant ways of life , they regard Shetlanders as peasants or country hicks . |
| 24 | Celebratory events were taking place all over the Soviet Union ; but none was more extraordinary , in its modest way , than Charsky 's promised to be . |
| 25 | This was clearly identified in the consensus statement from the King 's Fund : ‘ Until teaching is recognised to be an important professional activity ( comparable in status to clinical service , research and management ) it is unrealistic to expect those involved to devote the necessary time and effort to planning and implementing any new curriculum . ’ |
| 26 | If g is taken to be the local gravitational acceleration then we can see that the metric connections correspond to the components of the gravitational acceleration . |
| 27 | Well , if I ca n't have Heathcliff as my friend , if Edgar is going to be mean and jealous , I 'll try to break both their hearts by breaking my own . |
| 28 | Plainly , any questions about sex or gender are necessarily non-philosophical , if philosophy is taken to be conceptual analysis in this narrow sense . |
| 29 | The doctor was so pleased with his progress he said the patient could go home if Eva was going to be there to look after him . |
| 30 | If Deane been told to be target man and also lay the ball off for the likes of rodders and Speed then he 's OK this season , but £3 mil for a STRIKER ! ! |