Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Intel side , the PCE-5S Pentium machine will be shown : it is currently running at 50MHz , but is eventually intended to be a 66MHz machine — all being well at Intel Corp . |
| 2 | Index followed a year later , originally launched inside the stores , but eventually intended to be fully independent . |
| 3 | Dmitri , typing letters of thanks for the Freud books sent by American friends , was a little irritated to be interrupted . |
| 4 | Inflation for the month of December was officially stated as 40.1 per cent but was unofficially recognized to be much higher . |
| 5 | It is difficult to understand why this screen — which was presumably intended to be a close-boarded fence — was needed , as the turnpike road is some distance away , one field beyond the other side of the river . |
| 6 | It was widely recognized to be a very important contribution to quantum theory , and it won him the Nobel Prize in 1922 . |
| 7 | The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it . |
| 8 | Chuter was widely expected to be offered the new position , and Spracklen believes that his offer to take it on unpaid was ‘ an embarrassment ’ to the ARA . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , although possessing a less extensive grant of power , the Commission was widely expected to be the dynamic element in further moves towards integration . |
| 10 | Gamsakhurdia 's term was to last only until direct presidential elections which the Supreme Soviet scheduled for May 26 , but he was widely expected to be returned to office . |
| 11 | In December he supported the formation of a new Moslem organization ( the Association of Moslem Intellectuals ) , which united a broad spectrum of Moslem interests and was widely expected to be the basis of support for his candidacy in 1993 [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 12 | Also replaced in the ensuing Cabinet reshuffle was Petroleum Resources Minister Jibril Aminu , who was widely expected to be a candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 5 . |
| 13 | The next step in that process is widely expected to be the sale next week of Cockburn 's of Leith , a wine merchant subsidiary . |
| 14 | Jiang is widely expected to be named China 's president in addition to his current post during the annual meeting of the National People 's Congress that begins on Monday . |
| 15 | Winner of the South African Grand Prix on Sunday , Prost had been widely expected to be banned for one or more races or heavily fined . |
| 16 | We need to take good note of this , for it is an aspect of Leonard 's life , little stressed to be sure , at times perhaps deliberately down-played , that is of immense significance to him . |
| 17 | I have noticed in this puritan America of ours that beautiful women are rarely permitted to be clever . |
| 18 | Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock is widely claimed to be the first comet discovered by an orbiting observatory — the Infrared Astronomical Satellite , IRAS . |
| 19 | Priestley 's most famous addition in 1774 is widely claimed to be oxygen . |
| 20 | Stories of inferior accommodation , equipment and materials , effectively deemed to be ‘ good enough ’ for students with special needs , seemed to far outweigh reports of a stated commitment for those students being backed up by provision that was dignified and appropriate . |
| 21 | The number of deaths from asthma in England and Wales is widely reported to be about 2000 a year . |
| 22 | One favourite medium of attack in Iraq was the newspaper cartoon , with spectacularly uncomplimentary portrayals in the Baath Party newspaper al-Thawrah of the three chief objects of the leadership 's hostility — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin , Syria 's President Hafez al-Asad and of course Khomeini , on one occasion presented , at a time when Iran was widely reported to be cutting oil prices to boost sales volume , as a door-to-door kerosine street pedlar calling out , ‘ Naft ! |
| 23 | But last year , when the team announced a sponsorship deal with TSB , he was widely reported to be 42 . |
| 24 | For instance , did you know that on average they have increased spending on books and equipment by ninety percent and that sixty percent of schools employ at least one more teacher and many employ more classroom support staff and that morale among teachers is widely reported to be higher , even where before those teachers opposed grant maintained status . |
| 25 | It is important here , though , not to take the notion of " education " in any narrow sense , since the mission of national education as it operated between 1880 and 1920 encompassed institutions , events , and locations well beyond the scope of education as it has since come to be formally conceived . |
| 26 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 27 | A condition of the IMF loan was unofficially reported to be a 25 per cent reduction in public staff levels . |
| 28 | They have secretly wished to be lovers for years but the consummation of their affair is a recent event . |
| 29 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 30 | AT 30 , Daldry is widely considered to be an inspired choice as the artistic director-designate of the Royal Court , London 's embattled home of new writing . |