Example sentences of "the [noun pl] are [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , the accounts are required to be audited by an auditor appointed by the same Secretary of State . |
| 2 | The pennants date from 1974 , while the chains are believed to be five years older . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly the most important group of works by the artist to appear at auction for many years , the canvases are said to be in extremely good condition . |
| 4 | The second is that the proposals are considered to be impracticable for most small companies and their auditors . |
| 5 | For the NHS , the main impact may well be on the labour force , as staff of all types have greater freedom to use their qualifications and experience wherever the rewards are perceived to be . |
| 6 | The products are claimed to be cabable of operating as a client to Novell 's NetWare SAA communications server across Novell and TCP/IP networks . |
| 7 | The thrombi are considered to be secondary to local injury , stasis or cor-pulmonale . |
| 8 | ( d ) Overflow can not occur on multiplication if the values are assumed to be integral , but multiplication of two operands both of which are the maximum negative number causes overflow under the fractional convention . |
| 9 | The savings are estimated to be more than £250,000 annually . |
| 10 | Some of the borders are designed to be cut out and appliquéd on to a host fabric , while others are an integral part of a plain background material . |
| 11 | The brothers are reputed to be amongst the richest men in France and Lagerfeld , born into money , waxes richer by the year . |
| 12 | The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on . |
| 13 | The winners are expected to be announced in October and the trials are likely to start in the new year . |
| 14 | The risks are thought to be very small : ( 1 ) because the balance of the natural environment is primarily controlled by the species already present which appear to operate to the detriment of new introductions ; and ( 2 ) because in new releases of microorganisms to date , all very closely monitored , there has been no evidence of any of them getting out of control or adversely affecting the environment . |
| 15 | The bottles are designed to be reused up to 20 times over a period of five years before being recycled into filling for toys , anoraks and duvets . |
| 16 | In all cases the movements are assumed to be continuous . |
| 17 | The companies are believed to be looking at ways to have it support Windows applications as well , but the paper was told that that problem has not yet been solved . |
| 18 | The footsteps are said to be those of an unfortunate platelayer who was killed shortly after the introduction of the electric trains . |
| 19 | Since the parents are presumed to be native speakers of Dominican French Creole , ( they probably speak a variety of Caribbean English as well ) the Bradford Dominican speakers of JC must have acquired it through peer contact in their own community — where Jamaicans are a minority . |
| 20 | If the transactions are found to be lawful and enforceable and interest rates remain high , the council stands to lose at least £69.1 million - the estimated negative value of its portfolio in February . |
| 21 | The poems are intended to be read aloud as in the late middle ages , a period to which Darras is keenly attracted because national and linguistic boundaries had not yet hardened . |
| 22 | The bridges are meant to be kept in good repair . |
| 23 | Within a few days , however , anxiety had set in and he was confiding in Rohde his fear that a book that crossed so many conventional demarcation lines might deter all his prospective specialist readers : " the philologists wo n't read it because of the music and the philology … " ; and regarding the classical readership in particular , Rohde would know " how offended the philologists are bound to be at anything not published by Teubner and without the paraphernalia of critical notes " . |
| 24 | In the illustrations of projection so far I have suggested that broadly speaking there are two kinds : ( 1 ) where the participants are allowed to be passive observers becoming more actively engaged as and when they wish , and ( 2 ) where from the beginning the participants are required to do something . |
| 25 | The purposes are assumed to be the public good . |
| 26 | Microscopically the alveoli are seen to be blocked with worms , eggs , larvae , and cellular aggregations which may progress to granuloma formation ( Fig. 45 ) . |
| 27 | The SVQs are designed to be assessed in the workplace , or , where this is not possible , in simulations which enable assessment to be undertaken to demonstrate consistent , comprehensive performance under workplace conditions including difficult and stressful circumstances . |
| 28 | The banks are believed to be reaching the point where their capital will fall below the minimum required under rules imposed by the Bank for International Settlements . |
| 29 | The banks are believed to be pressing for yet another rights issue of new shares at the company . |
| 30 | The main causes of the reductions are considered to be a 1985 EC directive limiting lead levels in petrol and the introduction of unleaded petrol in 1986 and the preferential fiscal measures to encourage its use . |