Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oracle7 , Sybase , Ingres and Informix are said to have been tuned for the 1000 . |
| 2 | Amnesty International is also concerned that in other instances , during the operation some unarmed civilians were reportedly killed deliberately by Soviet and Azerbaydzhani law enforcement officials without warning or attempts to apprehend them , and that some people are said to have been detained for short periods solely on grounds of their ethnic origin . |
| 3 | At intervals round each temple there were adyta , sunken and secluded rectangular areas which are thought to have been used for important ceremonies ( Marinatos 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Do you know that you are thought to have been imprisoned for debt ? ’ |
| 5 | Although thousands of civilians have been reported extrajudicially executed or ‘ disappeared ’ in the emergency zones during the past decade , no members of the armed forces are known to have been convicted for their part in these violations . |
| 6 | ‘ I have heard , ’ said Henry slowly , ‘ that on occasion — by accident , usually — aconite has been known to have been mistaken for horseradish . ’ |
| 7 | For the uncommitted public , however , there were two effects of startling importance : sexual frankness took an immense leap forward and the image of women could be said to have been changed for ever . |
| 8 | This can be done by timing the sequence with a stop watch ( which can itself be proved to have been checked for accuracy if required ) . |
| 9 | These objects are actually made of brass , but are believed to have been used for the weighing of gold dust ( fig. 9.4 ) . |
| 10 | A further 40 Sendero guerrillas were said to have been killed for the loss of three policemen dead and 20 wounded on Sept. 27 during an attack on a police post in Nuevo Progreso , San Martin department in the Upper Huallaga valley , the country 's major cocaine producing area , a Sendero stronghold . |
| 11 | Former Premier Li Gun Mo ( in 1986-88 — see p. 36937 ) and other disgraced officials were rumoured to have been detained for having opposed the planned succession of Kim Jong Il , the son of Kim Il Sung . |
| 12 | It is reported to have been used for surveillance of the United Unionist Action Council strike headquarters in May 1977 together with an infinity bug in a newlyinstalled telephone in a committee room . |
| 13 | Amis 's Stanley and the Women drew blood , for a time , from feminist opinion , and is said to have been blocked for a period from entry into the United States ; and Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses ( 1988 ) forced its author , a Muslim-born Indian , into hiding in 1989 for its alleged blasphemy against the Prophet . |
| 14 | Published in 1693 by R. Smith ( 'under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill' ) with the title The Christian Soldier 's Penny Bible , Shewing from the Holy Scriptures the Soldier ‘ s Duty and Encouragement … fit for the Soldier ‘ s or Seaman ‘ s Pocket , it is thought to have been produced for our troops in Flanders . |
| 15 | New Zealand was amply supplied with basalt , greywacke and argillite , each of which is known to have been used for the adze blades used to shape the timbers required for canoes , houses and defensive works . |
| 16 | The stone has now vanished and is believed to have been used for paving the walks of St. James Church in Brackley . |
| 17 | About £20m of the original money is believed to have been accounted for , although about another £6m is still missing . |
| 18 | Although the wood is presumed to have been used for firesetting. the association between mining activity and the sample is rarely certain . |
| 19 | One shuttle tanker , Polikon , was reported to have been hit for the fourth time and written off as a ‘ constructive total loss ’ ( CTL ) . |
| 20 | However , the attack , which was thought to have been planned for Kiechle 's 60th birthday party on March 3 in Bavaria , had not taken place and a further letter from the RAF stated that it had been called off due to a " mistake in co-ordination " . |
| 21 | Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) witnessed on May 30 the total destruction of the Al-Atheer nuclear complex on the grounds that its technical core was held to have been designed for weapons development [ see pp. 38838 ; 38886 ] . |