Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [be] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , the accounts are required to be audited by an auditor appointed by the same Secretary of State . |
| 2 | If he lost , the saints were to leave Cornwall ; and if he won , the giants were to consent to being baptised . |
| 3 | The pennants date from 1974 , while the chains are believed to be five years older . |
| 4 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 5 | By the second half of February the Germans were beginning to be really worried by the advance — although slow — of the Allies and by the strong resistance of the partisans , so they decided to make a deal with the partisan leaders to save their own lives . |
| 6 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Dec. 27 reported that the debts were understood to be owed mainly to the Soviet Union and east European states , and possibly Iran . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He stressed that ‘ Heshang ’ was mainly intended to raise questions and some of the reactions were bound to be critical . |
| 9 | The second is that the proposals are considered to be impracticable for most small companies and their auditors . |
| 10 | The proposals were believed to be ‘ an attempt to cash limit a demand led service which will damage the doctor/patient relationship and be detrimental to patient care . ’ |
| 11 | The proposals were expected to be endorsed by the special party congress . |
| 12 | Day-to-day management of the groups was expected to be in the hands of experienced Western managers , with board chairmen being Polish nationals . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The thrombi are considered to be secondary to local injury , stasis or cor-pulmonale . |
| 16 | ( 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 . |
| 17 | That farewell to the coaches was going to be ‘ Hello ’ until a few minutes ago when the British Olympic Association suddenly cancelled a meet-the-press day . |
| 18 | The savings are estimated to be more than £250,000 annually . |
| 19 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 20 | Strategically , we need to understand what the clients are thinking to be able to deliver the services which they want . ’ |
| 21 | All the candidates were said to be in favour of free legislative elections and economic reform . |
| 22 | All prospective owners are vetted to make sure that the animals are going to be properly cared for . |
| 23 | The animals were found to be carrying antibodies against a variant of the hepatitis virus , indigenous to Old World primates , but unknown in the New World outside captivity . |
| 24 | The density of the intrusions is assumed to be 2,800kgm -3 , the same as the surrounding material . |
| 25 | The schools are seem to be able to make them look attractive because of the photography and things like that . |
| 26 | some of the confusions are going to be sexually harassing . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The offices are going to be bright and airy . |
| 29 | These were analogous to the special migrant stations in the United States and Russia with the exception that most of the Tamils were expected to be only temporary migrants . |
| 30 | The Western-financed dams received all the attention ; the numerous jobs that needed to be done if the dams were going to be of any use had scant priority . |