Example sentences of "who is [vb pp] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This evidently does not apply to God , who is said to be able ( although unlikely ) to create duplicate worlds . |
| 2 | Police say they are concerned for Kathryn Mary Baxter who is believed to be depressed following the recent break-up of her relationship with a boyfriend . |
| 3 | She has recently started a new job and feels attracted to a senior female colleague who is rumoured to be gay . |
| 4 | It is precisely this that makes me very suspicious of searching for some supposed rational parliamentary intention outside the language in which a draftsman who is known to be rational has chosen to express it . |
| 5 | The Terry 's cash would be very useful to UB , which is chaired by Bob Clarke , who is known to be keen to cut the group 's high gearing — debt amounted to about £540 million at the last count — and pave the way for even more expansion . |
| 6 | But if Jesus of Nazareth is not thought to be unique , and the Christian story is just a myth , why , one must ask , should one who is a feminist choose to take up this particular myth when it is so male , and has central to it a male person who is held to be unique ? |
| 7 | It really is no use following the tacking pattern of someone who is meant to be good in front of you , since the shifts affect different parts of the course at different times . |