Example sentences of "are [verb] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | General SVQs are designed to be open to those who are not in work . |
| 2 | Social control performs the function of defining those acts that are deemed to be harmful to the society . |
| 3 | There is no uniform or objective way of reporting events in all their detail , exactly as they happen in the real world ; the structure of each language highlights , and to a large extent preselects , certain areas which are deemed to be fundamental to the reporting of any experience . |
| 4 | The analysis has indicated that the sands are variably shaly and some anomalous log responses are considered to be due to the presence of secondary minerals , either as cement or detrital elements . |
| 5 | The thrombi are considered to be secondary to local injury , stasis or cor-pulmonale . |
| 6 | China and Taiwan are reported to be close to agreement on joint development of a centre for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste . |
| 7 | However , there are certain qualities which are seen to be peculiar to physics and these are crucial to our understanding of the construction of physics as a discipline . |
| 8 | Carpentier , in particular , explores Latin America 's relation to the Western world , notably in Explosion in a Cathedral , which portrays Caribbean society against the background of the French Revolution , and , in all of his works , implanted European systems are seen to be inappropriate to the American environment . |
| 9 | The differences in organisation are said to be due to innate ability , and the kind of experience received . |
| 10 | The research and development costs of these drugs are said to be close to £10-£15 million . |
| 11 | They are said to be similar to material distributed previously by Mr Round . |
| 12 | These shapes are said to be common to each of the three pictures . |
| 13 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 14 | Xorandor examines the narrative aspect of the novel by exploring the theoretical problems of story-telling from the point of view of children whose minds have been formed by their exposure to computers ; here techniques specific to narrative are shown to be central to even the most logical of sciences . |
| 15 | This education may go well beyond simply fostering understanding of the change itself ; it may include needs assessment and subsequent training in the skills and knowledge that are shown to be essential to functioning successfully in the changed environment . |
| 16 | Such social changes are shown to be prior to , and necessary precursors of , any technological changes , such as industrialization ( Marx 1974 : 318–47 ) . |
| 17 | The bags of fertiliser are thought to be similar to those found at Fallswater Street in west Belfast last week . |
| 18 | Efforts to identify the coeliac toxic amino acid sequence , which presumably acts as a T cell immunogen , have focussed on the wheat prolamin , gliadin , whose four subfractions α , Β , and γ , are thought to be toxic to patients with coeliac disease . |
| 19 | At least 80% of heart attacks in men under 45 are thought to be due to cigarette smoking [ 5 ] . |
| 20 | The ‘ tails ’ of these Phromnia rosea nymphs are thought to be unpalatable to predators . |
| 21 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 22 | It seems unlikely then , that ‘ standard procedures ’ of recording space and time are going to be relevant to the unique identification of utterance acts . |
| 23 | Now you 'll recall I said that we will we will try and isolate try and isolate throughout the afternoon those things which are going to be useful to you . |
| 24 | When you get to about 13 or 14 , you begin to realize that your colour , even if you had n't thought about it much , means that other people are going to be different to you . |
| 25 | PISCES Whether or not you are going to be able to fully exercise your ability to earn a high income is likely to be revealed this week ! |
| 26 | I need you to read the illnesses that you are going to be prone to . |
| 27 | We are invited to be open to the choices each of them represents . |
| 28 | Sandra , a full-time barrister and a mother of three , says some judges are known to be partial to women in wigs and gowns . |
| 29 | The Italians , and indeed all foreigners , are known to be cruel to animals , thought Daisy , looking down to see if she could catch some peasant beating a horse or kicking a dog . |
| 30 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |