Example sentences of "is understood [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former building society is understood to be prepared to take court action if it does not wrest the compensation from Lloyds . |
| 2 | The Bank of England is understood to be keeping a watch as discussions continue between Eurotunnel and its four agent banks , which include the Midland and National Westminster . |
| 3 | ITV is understood to be concerned about what it sees as a weakening of its expensive agreement by individual clubs . |
| 4 | The Department of Health is understood to be highly sceptical . |
| 5 | GM , the world 's largest car maker , is understood to be planning to take an initial 15 per cent shareholding in Jaguar , rising to 29.9 per cent immediately the Government 's golden share in Jaguar expires in January 1991 . |
| 6 | The main problem is understood to be integrating the software and the microchip decoder apparatus in the receiver . |
| 7 | The rest of the evidence against Mr Ryan is understood to be mainly circumstantial . |
| 8 | Julian Bailey , despite failing to qualify his Lotus 102B at Phoenix , is understood to be prepared to commit himself to Lotus for the entire season — if Martin Donnelly is n't fit enough to race — backed by a personal investment of up to £75,000 , earned during two years with the Group C Nissan team . |
| 9 | Aetna , the large US insurance group is understood to be a front runner on the 20-strong list of potential buyers for Gartmore . |
| 10 | He is understood to be pressing ahead with the rest of the agenda set by his predecessor , Mr Douglas Hurd , including a white paper proposing less use of imprisonment for non-violent offenders . |
| 11 | But if no progress is made towards full ethnic monitoring of the West Midlands case , the commission is understood to be prepared to raise the matter with Mr David Waddington , the Home Secretary , who is responsible for both the commission and the authority . |
| 12 | Is then an MP , who must keep the hours of a street-walker ; who is understood to be — if the public is to be believed — either impotent or corrupt ; who spends the best years of his life listening to Ministers , speeches , and to the complaints of his constituents ; is he to receive as his only reward after twenty years of service a signed photograph of Jim Prior ? |
| 13 | Heron is understood to be confident its rescheduling programme , backed by a mass of financial information contained in three volumes , will be accepted by bankers and bondholders . |
| 14 | The main problem is understood to be the difficulty of avoiding the impression that the principal characters are based on the real Royal family . |
| 15 | I ask whether this money too , which was given to him after the will was made , is understood to be included in the legacy . |
| 16 | He is understood to be siding with ICC chairman Sir Colin Cowdrey in backing the England bid , knowing he is a leading candidate to next summer become the first non-English chairman of world cricket 's governing body . |
| 17 | Davies , 30 , who has two and a half years of his contract to run , is understood to be disillusioned and keen to quit the professional game . |
| 18 | In such a situation behaviour is understood to be analogous to war . |
| 19 | The Institute is understood to be investigating the activities of Sting 's auditors Moore Sloane , which closed down in September . |
| 20 | The big surf companies have caught on to such a trend towards the plain and dark : Quicksilver is understood to be behind the Pirate Surf label , and Gotcha runs a second , more cultish label called More Core Division . |
| 21 | This is understood to be a reference to the coming destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD . ) |
| 22 | Hewlett-Packard is understood to be contributing parts of its DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility and IBM parts of its SOM to the object core layer . |
| 23 | However , Laming is understood to be keen to start detailed monitoring . |
| 24 | They came up with the Militant Clergy Association , which is understood to be moderate , and the Militant Clerics Society , which is described as left-wing fundamentalist . |
| 25 | The basis of Pink , the Apple/IBM ( Taligent ) object-oriented operating system of the future is understood to be a proprietary microkernel called Opus that began life in Apple back in 1988 . |
| 26 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is understood to be most advanced at this stage in development of working parts . |
| 27 | HP is understood to be contributing parts of its DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility and IBM parts of its SOM to the object core layer . |
| 28 | Bell Atlantic is understood to be working on an implementation of Multiflow 's ingenious Trace Scheduling Compilers for 64-bit Sparc architectures . |
| 29 | The advantage of a ‘ message ’ Christology would seem to be that , with the shift of concentration from the person of Christ to his message , we circumvent the problems which present themselves when the symbol of a male person is understood to be central to Christianity . |
| 30 | In developing styles of music to make worship accessible to as many people as possible , the primary aim of music in the house church movement is understood to be to glorify God . |