Example sentences of "the [noun] are [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder are bound to be increasingly affected by the absence from the shelves of a considerable number of titles . |
| 2 | When the fins of fossil specimens are carefully dissected , the lobes at the base are found to be supported by one stout bone close to the body , two bones joined to it and finally a group of small bones — the pattern that is found in the limbs of all land vertebrates . |
| 3 | Generally , the accounts are required to be audited by an auditor appointed by the same Secretary of State . |
| 4 | The pennants date from 1974 , while the chains are believed to be five years older . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly the most important group of works by the artist to appear at auction for many years , the canvases are said to be in extremely good condition . |
| 6 | The second is that the proposals are considered to be impracticable for most small companies and their auditors . |
| 7 | For the NHS , the main impact may well be on the labour force , as staff of all types have greater freedom to use their qualifications and experience wherever the rewards are perceived to be . |
| 8 | The products are claimed to be cabable of operating as a client to Novell 's NetWare SAA communications server across Novell and TCP/IP networks . |
| 9 | Within each layer , the components of the canopy are considered to be randomly distributed and homogeneously mixed . ’ |
| 10 | The thrombi are considered to be secondary to local injury , stasis or cor-pulmonale . |
| 11 | Remains of the chancel are said to be of the 12th century , and the tower was rebuilt in the 15th century and has three bells . |
| 12 | ( d ) Overflow can not occur on multiplication if the values are assumed to be integral , but multiplication of two operands both of which are the maximum negative number causes overflow under the fractional convention . |
| 13 | The savings are estimated to be more than £250,000 annually . |
| 14 | Some of the borders are designed to be cut out and appliquéd on to a host fabric , while others are an integral part of a plain background material . |
| 15 | Staff who witnessed the murder are said to be very distressed . |
| 16 | The aircrafts and space vehicles featured in the programme are expected to be in big demand along with the Captain Scarlet costume . |
| 17 | Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) . |
| 18 | Ambiguity arises where , through an error in drafting , the words used in the statute are found to be capable of bearing two or more meanings . |
| 19 | The brothers are reputed to be amongst the richest men in France and Lagerfeld , born into money , waxes richer by the year . |
| 20 | The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on . |
| 21 | The winners are expected to be announced in October and the trials are likely to start in the new year . |
| 22 | The risks are thought to be very small : ( 1 ) because the balance of the natural environment is primarily controlled by the species already present which appear to operate to the detriment of new introductions ; and ( 2 ) because in new releases of microorganisms to date , all very closely monitored , there has been no evidence of any of them getting out of control or adversely affecting the environment . |
| 23 | The bottles are designed to be reused up to 20 times over a period of five years before being recycled into filling for toys , anoraks and duvets . |
| 24 | Motorola Inc hopes to capture a broad market for the PowerPC processor by pricing the first versions well below Intel Corp 's fastest microprocessors , US PC Week reports : preliminary pricing for the PowerPC , due in volume in the third quarter , has been listed at $280 for the 50MHz 601 and $374 for the 66MHz version of the chip in quantities of 20,000 or more , according to sources familiar with Motorola 's plans — significantly below the Pentium and the 66MHz 80486DX2 , although the Pentium will outperform the PowerPC chips ; systems that use the PowerPC are expected to be priced at from $3,000 to $4,000 . |
| 25 | The costs to the motorist are believed to be broadly similar to those for a car phone , with a sliding scale of charges based on the level and frequency of use . |
| 26 | The Pele Tower and the gallery are thought to be 14th Century . |
| 27 | In all cases the movements are assumed to be continuous . |
| 28 | The messages defined in the proposal are designed to be implemented using existing and emerging messaging technologies such as broadcast , multicast and the Object Management Group 's CORBA for distributed object technology . |
| 29 | I do apologise , I nicked it , the B's are meant to be Y's and the A's are meant to be X's . |
| 30 | The companies are believed to be looking at ways to have it support Windows applications as well , but the paper was told that that problem has not yet been solved . |