Example sentences of "[verb] is [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value of exports from all sectors included is estimated to be £351.3 million . |
| 2 | In 1993 , eight years short of its 250th anniversary , and still trading under its original name , it has fewer branches than Thins and a turnover probably around £13m ( Thins is believed to be around £15m ) . |
| 3 | New Zealander Chisholm has is expected to be off work for two weeks . |
| 4 | Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home . |
| 5 | In mouse and chicken muscle , expression of the α , β , γ , and δ subunits is believed to be regulated by a muscle specific promoter ( 15–19 ) . |
| 6 | This process of policy-shaping is held to be legitimate because the local state has to react to popular pressures in devising its welfare systems . |
| 7 | Although the model presented is meant to be " a step towards the combination of a semiotics of media and a sociology of communication " ( p. 239 ) an assessment of its value must await its implementation . |
| 8 | What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city . |
| 9 | Under the Child Minders Regulations Act of 1948 a person caring for reward for one or more children under five years of age to whom they are not related is required to be registered with the local authority . |
| 10 | The total damage done is said to be millions and millions . |
| 11 | Whatever he says is bound to be controversial , though that does not matter as long as it is not provocative . |
| 12 | He 's always had an anti-Leeds stance so whatever he says is going to be biased . |
| 13 | To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern . ’ |
| 14 | When Alice was sixteen her mother , angry with her about something , said in a fury , ‘ You need n't think being good looking is going to be an advantage in life . |
| 15 | An algorithm which performs this trick before it starts searching is said to be goal directed , or a backwards searcher . |
| 16 | The overall cost of the project over the ten years it will run is estimated to be in the region of £1.9 million , and an appeal for sponsorship by commercial sources and private individuals is to be launched early in 1993 . |
| 17 | Well , I 'd like to do , that we do do that , I mean , we have I think made some submissions in the past , but I think it 's now quite clear that the fears that we 've expressed in this committee over the years , are well founded , and we 've got to the point , where the whole er project for the special needs people , is is going is going to be very vulnerable . |
| 18 | He kept the room 's business on the move by constantly shouting : " Anyone who does n't work is going to be sacked . |
| 19 | And it would be helpful for councillor I would say that I know that there are a third of our members and from the program committees for capital expenditure which I suspect is going to be to excess of the five hundred thousand pounds per year which we actually have . |
| 20 | If the approved accounts do not comply with the Act , every director who was a party to their approval and who knows that they do not comply or is reckless as to whether or not they comply is guilty of an offence and every director at the time the accounts were approved is taken to be a party to their approval unless he shows that he took all reasonable steps to prevent their approval . |
| 21 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 22 | This occurs when individuals ' act in a way they know is destined to be hurtful to other members of the family , who , in response , reciprocate with actions they know will cause even more distress . |
| 23 | At Orbec , twenty kilometres from Lisieux , is the Caneton , a restaurant which you know is going to be good as soon as you enter its doors — the smell is so appetizing — but it is small and not exactly unknown , so it is prudent to telephone for a table in advance . |
| 24 | Now the maximum number of engines you you 're going to have we know is going to be twenty five . |
| 25 | If you have a good and close relationship with your mother you should be able to talk to her , but sometimes things are not even as straightforward as this , and if you are close to someone who you know is going to be upset or disappointed in you , it may be even harder to do . |
| 26 | We are restricted somewhat by time , because I want to get everybody back in the main auditorium to listen to what I know is going to be a fantastic lecture by Professor Don , er from Baltimore , which I would certainly recommend that everybody go and see . |
| 27 | If what they discuss and teach is considered to be a danger to the state , they may be deemed guilty of ‘ thought crimes ’ . |
| 28 | The correct answer — two hours and 30 seconds and the final amount raised is expected to be in the region of £11,000 . |
| 29 | One of those situations when any publicity we get is bound to be bad . ’ |
| 30 | You would reach your market more economically in a women 's magazine where the percentage of readers who knit is known to be high . |