Example sentences of "[verb] [am/are] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They demonstrate equitable intervention in favour of married women where the conditions to which I have earlier referred are found to be present . |
| 2 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
| 3 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 4 | The four outcomes that can result are taken to be as labelled in the Box ( over page ) . |
| 5 | The existing arrangements of asking for police assistance when the presence of weapons is suspected are considered to be quite adequate . |
| 6 | Because of the timescale the estate agents being paid up to £10.95 for each house valued are thought to be rushing the work . |
| 7 | The stringings of some of the instruments that the authors include in the category of ‘ fairly full evidence ’ seem fragmentary and ambiguous because the majority of strings that are there to be measured are considered to be replacements of non-original diameters . |
| 8 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 9 | Fears that London 's reputation as the world 's leading financial centre has been permanently damaged are considered to be exaggerated . |
| 10 | New proposals aimed at encouraging parents to take up teaching are expected to be criticized at an education meeting in Nottinghamshire today . |
| 11 | The advantages to management of so doing are claimed to be that wage costs are reduced , that the relatively powerful skilled craft union is replaced by the weaker general union , and , perhaps most importantly , management can exercise much tighter control over what happens on the shop-floor . |
| 12 | We have no idea what people are meant are meant to be doing when they 're voting , this was a problem I raised are people meant to be expressing their interest , are people meant to be voting like members of a jury ? |
| 13 | Special collars which give a small yet painful electric shock to deter barking are permitted to be sold in some countries , but really have no part in training a dog properly . |
| 14 | As long as the limitations are recognised and understood and those who allocate are seen to be acting fairly and using socially accepted criteria such as equity and efficiency , the use of rough , though conceptually sound , mechanisms ( for example , the original RAWP formula ) is most probably as good as we can get . |
| 15 | A GANG stealing to order are believed to be behind the theft a £28,000 Mercedes from an Ulster garage . |
| 16 | Because money from the off-farm jobs was put into the farm , it was difficult to ascertain what the trading position of the part-time farm actually was but the figures quoted are considered to be fairly near the mark . |
| 17 | Some of the most impressively complex examples of behaviour we see are known to be wholly innate . |