Example sentences of "its [noun] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even some members of the Party and its affiliates were said to be included . |
| 2 | Its decision was thought to be motivated by concern about pressure from the US , which threatened during the meeting to impose trade sanctions on countries that resumed commercial whaling . |
| 3 | The costs of its route are claimed to be about £2.5bn . |
| 4 | Its teeth were said to be venomous , its flesh poisonous , its hair lethal ( causing suffocation if a few were accidentally swallowed ) , and its breath infectious , destroying human lungs and causing consumption . |
| 5 | ( It should be made clear that , in the vast majority of cases , the poison is so aged that its potency is thought to be negligible . ) |
| 6 | The phasor potential difference across the capacitance C lags 90° behind the phasor potential difference VR across the resistance R , assuming negligible loading of the output taken between terminals P and O , while All of these aspects are maintained in the phasor diagram of figure 8.12(b) and its geometry is seen to be such that the point P moves over a circle , centre O , as the resistance R is varied . |
| 7 | The package of share options and perks on offer if LWT retained its franchise was said to be worth £3m . |
| 8 | Mathematics is viewed as socially neutral and its content is held to be independent of the material world . |
| 9 | Its price is expected to be about £12,000 — which makes the Reliant a better bargain that even Del Boy could afford . |
| 10 | When light coming from the top of a tall building is examined very carefully at ground level , its colour is found to be bluer than normal — another effect of gravity . |
| 11 | The pattern on its back is meant to be a charm , you see , for easing childbirth . ’ |
| 12 | For example , the matrix unc is persymmetric. ( 10 ) Centrosymmetric and centroskew matrices — a matrix which is symmetric about the centre point of its array is said to be centrosymmetric ; thus , if A is centrosymmetric , of order n , it is characterised by unc More simply , if J is the reversing matrix , a centrosymmetric matrix has the property A = JAJ A centroskew matrix is characterised by the equation A = JAJ . |
| 13 | Although requiring formal approval from the House when it reconvened in January 1993 , the size of the Democratic majority in the new House meant that its adoption was considered to be a foregone conclusion . |
| 14 | Its use is intended to be for characters that walk , where you do n't want to have a Michael Jackson Moonwalk effect ( although that 's a doddle to do — you just move an actor backwards while it 's animated to walk forwards ) . |
| 15 | The subsequent history of the town is confused ; by 1564 its trade was said to be in decline , and it sustained a further blow when William 's son retired to the fine house he had built at Shaw on the outskirts of the borough , leaving his men to sing ruefully : |
| 16 | Its people were said to be ‘ more English and the English ’ . |
| 17 | This is due to the very limited life time of the adsorbent in this situation and the cost of its replacement is considered to be too high . |
| 18 | The type of government in power and its stability are bound to be of concern to expatriates . |
| 19 | The self-regulation of the profession and the high standards demanded of its members are said to be the justification for the monopolies enjoyed by those engaging in the activity and by the restrictive practices permitted . |
| 20 | But its members are thought to be waiting to see what its British equivalent comes up with . |
| 21 | This details its past record , how its performance is expected to be affected by the jockey , whether the grass is soft or firm and the distance . |
| 22 | Certainly it does nothing to enhance the reputation of democracy when its application is seen to be so restricted and its outcome so ineffectual . |
| 23 | One house was the most magnificent on the island and its garden was considered to be the best of its kind in the whole of the nation . |
| 24 | It is an issue both of absolute shortages of the wood .. and the distributions of available wood supplies between different uses and users … its causes are seen to be closely linked to the distribution of economic and political power between classes and social groups which determines who gets how much of a scarce resource . |
| 25 | Local knowledge of the quality of land and its potential is thought to be more important . |
| 26 | The verificationist who is unwilling to admit the possibility of such facts ( in this he is a consistent anti-realist ) must therefore say that such a statement , though perhaps it may be determinately false when one of its consequences is observed to be false , still can not achieve determinate truth . |
| 27 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 28 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it though part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal . |
| 29 | A further advantage of the new index investment trust is that dealings in its shares are expected to be more liquid than in the individual shares of many smaller companies . |
| 30 | In the 15th century the town and its palace were thought to be the most beautiful in all Italy . |