Example sentences of "and [noun prp] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , drugs widely used for the treatment of ulcerative colitis such as sulfasalazine and 5-ASA are known to be potent anti-reactive oxygen species agents . |
| 2 | The company 's two daily commuter coach services from Braintree and Chelmsford are expected to be busy , but managers will wait to see what demand there is before deciding whether to run additional vehicles . |
| 3 | Frequently , classes I , II and III(N) are taken to be middle class , and III(M) , IV and V to be working class . |
| 4 | ‘ She also told me that Jamie and Gary were found to be unsuitable as bone-marrow donors for Donna . |
| 5 | Timisoara and Arad were reported to be on a general strike . |
| 6 | Islington , Southwark , Camden and Hounslow were thought to be in the bag . |
| 7 | It was 17th October and Balliol was known to be on the move . |
| 8 | Just where he was now and where he was heading was uncertain , this possibly having much to do with the non-arrival of Murray and the Steward , since both would be coming from the West Country and Balliol was thought to be marching southwards down the middle of the land . |
| 9 | This time it comes from God 's own lips , the crime of Hophni and Phinehas is declared to be blasphemy , Eli is condemned for not restraining them , and the speech ends with a divine oath making it irrevocably clear that there is nothing these three priests can do to ward off the coming disaster . |
| 10 | Kemptner and Strubig were believed to be held by the Hamadei family , two members of which were serving prison sentences in Germany for terrorist related crimes . |
| 11 | In this connection , central government and LEAs were urged to be sensitive to the wishes of some groups to have their daughters educated in single-sex schools . |
| 12 | China and Taiwan are reported to be close to agreement on joint development of a centre for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste . |
| 13 | Taiwan and Ireland are said to be preparing to halt the use of driftnets by June 30 next year . |
| 14 | And Bourne was said to be ‘ a well-built and pleasant market town , which has doubled its population during the last forty years ’ . |
| 15 | These SPRs and SSRs are defined to be : |
| 16 | Core to the strategy is the ability to use multiple operating systems and IBM is believed to be developing a new version of AIX/ESA that will run on both the RS/6000 workstations and highly-parallel servers . |
| 17 | June and July are felt to be the best months for climbing , though the weather in August is still good enough . |
| 18 | As one might expect , West Germany has inherited the ability to maintain vast dossiers on people within its borders and , bearing in mind that some 8,000 spies working for East Germany and Russia are said to be operating in West Germany , there is certainly plenty for them to do . |
| 19 | Northumbrian , Wessex , Southern and Yorkshire are thought to be vulnerable . |
| 20 | Negotiations with Holland and Sweden are expected to be opened soon . |
| 21 | Social Integration of Incomers and Shetlanders is held to be the aim , and an achievable aim : achievable especially by dispersal of housing ( DDP : 28 ) . |
| 22 | Dereham had in fact considered that he and Catherine were engaged to be married , and this , if revealed at the time , would have invalidated the royal marriage . |
| 23 | And the headmaster at er Street school , Joseph , was a Labour member of council , and Joseph was tended to be more Liberal . |
| 24 | The Mexican stand-off between USL and SCO is thought to be price . |
| 25 | Telepoint offers one-way telephone services and PCN is expected to be like an affordable cellular radio , so the need for paging seems dubious . |
| 26 | The VUE desktop manager lost out to IXI Ltd 's X.desktop manager in the failed Advanced Computing Environment initiative and Hewlett is said to be determined not to lose this time around . |
| 27 | Jaguar is offering them on every new model and Audi is said to be phasing out its Procon-Ten safety system in favour of driver's-side airbags . |
| 28 | I do n't give a damn about Ivan 's ridiculous rag , said Charles , but of course he did , he cared much more than she did , and with reason , for Ivan usually managed to deliver her some backhanded compliment , whereas Charles always got it in the neck : ‘ HEADLEAND CRASHES HEADLONG ’ had been the headline of Ivan 's latest piece of gossip , which had consisted of a dangerous account of Charles 's behaviour at a meeting of a board of directors , laced with unfounded but inventive innuendo about a country house which he and Liz were said to be purchasing as a tax dodge . |
| 29 | EXCHANGE and research deals with universities in Finland and Estonia are expected to be sealed by Dr Anne Wright , rector of Sunderland 's new university this week . |
| 30 | Lithuania and Estonia were said to be considering the idea of transitional currencies ; in May Lithuania introduced coupons in 200 and 500 denominations , paid as a percentage of wages and used for goods in short supply . |