Example sentences of "the [adj] [am/are] [vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE BRITISH are said to be fascinated by the weather and talk of little else when the talk is small . |
| 2 | For even at the generally modest level of competition that Beckenham offers , the British are shown to be dismal failures . |
| 3 | Yet because the old are seen to be more ill , more often than other age groups , illness and old age have become closely associated in our minds , leading to the belief that the old have to suffer and bear an unavoidable amount of pain and discomfort . |
| 4 | The Japanese are said to be keen to invest more , but worry about the safety of their executives there . |
| 5 | ( 1.3 ) The possible argument consists in the premiss ( 1 ) that decisions and the like are taken to be effects but also to be no more than events which follow on conditions which are required for them , the further premiss ( 2 ) that it is to be presumed that we have a single conception of effects rather than several , and the conclusion ( 3 ) that all effects , including what have been called standard effects , are merely events preceded by conditions required for them . |
| 6 | Subsequently , when the remedy is given to treat sick people , other symptoms that had not been brought out in the Proving are noted to be cured by the remedy and if this happens repeatedly then those symptoms are added to the picture of that remedy . |
| 7 | The mood and issues of the 1990s are bound to be different from those of the 1980s . |
| 8 | But , perhaps , the biggest single difference between the work of the TechDoc system and the more insidious desktop publishing package is that the former are designed to be used in conjunction with other systems . |
| 9 | The two are said to be concerned over Sun 's ability to deliver code on time and suspect it may not prioritise their platforms over Sun 's own . |
| 10 | The two are said to be doubtful about Sun 's ability to deliver the code on time and they suspect the company may not give their systems priority over its own . |
| 11 | Bitwise Designs Inc , New York signed a letter of intent to acquire Electrograph Systems Inc for 333,333 shares of Bitwise common : the combined annual revenues of the two are expected to be about $12m . |
| 12 | In America the belligerent are said to be ‘ on the prod ’ , a reference to the cowboy employed in the stockyards to move cattle along with a pole tipped by a metal goad . |