Example sentences of "[adj] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 It 's it 's on the basis that any employer has a duty of care to employees and what I mean by that is that er an employer has a responsibility to not work employers er er employees under conditions that that are known to be unsafe .
2 The 4th and 15th are bound to be days when the tide of fortune may appear to turn against you .
3 They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes .
4 The propane/butane fridges use no chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) or hydrochlorofluorocarbons ( HCFCs ) in their production ; 285,000 are expected to be made this year .
5 Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) .
6 More instances that this are required to be certain that the possible parts of speech of the word are found .
7 At least half are believed to be switched off by remote control every night .
8 A further 12 are expected to be created .
9 The combined payments for March 1993 and June 1993 are expected to be about £9m , a more than 50% increase over the payment in March 1992 .
10 So far about 35 of the exclusive cars have been delivered by Jaguar , though few are expected to be seen on the road .
11 THE BRITISH are said to be fascinated by the weather and talk of little else when the talk is small .
12 For even at the generally modest level of competition that Beckenham offers , the British are shown to be dismal failures .
13 Because the individual organisms vary , some are bound to be better able to survive in particular circumstances than others .
14 Some are said to be getting cold feet .
15 Through chauvinism or lack of thoroughness they omitted the many Scottish versions of the rhyme , even though some are known to be very old .
16 In all , there are thousands of extinct or dormant volcanoes , but only forty-five are considered to be ‘ active ’ .
17 The defensive partners in Galway 's biggest triumphs at the end of the 80s are resigned to being substitutes , but do n't rule out the introduction of one or both .
18 Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards , but around 50,000 are believed to be infected in Britain , and the disease is pandemic in parts of Africa .
19 The greatest effect is in Indomalesia , where some 85 000 km 2 are thought to be lost each year .
20 Yet because the old are seen to be more ill , more often than other age groups , illness and old age have become closely associated in our minds , leading to the belief that the old have to suffer and bear an unavoidable amount of pain and discomfort .
21 As a general rule , documents which are more than 20 years old are deemed to be " ancient " and are presumed to be authentic unless proved otherwise ( Evidence Act 1938 , s4 ) .
22 Therefore , word sequences that are grammatically acceptable are considered to be more plausible than word sequences that are grammatically unacceptable .
23 Therefore , word sequences that are semantically acceptable are considered to be more plausible than word sequences that are not semantically acceptable .
24 But how may this be said to be a Christology ?
25 If this were felt to be a circular situation a formal decision not to ratify could be deemed to negate signature .
26 Of these , 371,000 were thought to be Protestant , 271,000 Catholic and 5,000 Jews .
27 It was students demonstrating , as a result of which a number of them were arrested and I later learnt that a few were sentenced to be flogged .
28 From the outset , despite the talk of ‘ equality ’ with Germany , the French were determined to be the prominent power in EDC .
29 In 1759 the French were known to be preparing an invasion of Scotland in which French forces would sail and rouse any remaining Stuart rebels .
30 Many of her associates were intellectuals and artists ; some were thought to be liberals , even leftists .
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