Example sentences of "[adj] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE BRITISH are said to be fascinated by the weather and talk of little else when the talk is small . |
| 2 | For even at the generally modest level of competition that Beckenham offers , the British are shown to be dismal failures . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Therefore , word sequences that are grammatically acceptable are considered to be more plausible than word sequences that are grammatically unacceptable . |
| 6 | Therefore , word sequences that are semantically acceptable are considered to be more plausible than word sequences that are not semantically acceptable . |
| 7 | From the outset , despite the talk of ‘ equality ’ with Germany , the French were determined to be the prominent power in EDC . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well if through the winter months when there 's no fire in there , no nothing in there the damp is bound to be coming through there . |
| 10 | It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric . |
| 11 | One solution is to adopt the North American practice of providing patients with a comprehensive list of postoperative complications , but to most British doctors the prospect of burdening patients with ‘ unwanted ’ information about what might go wrong is deemed to be both unhelpful and unkind . |
| 12 | However , anything which is non-zero is considered to be TRUE . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that any notion of ‘ the will of the collectivity ’ would be alien to the Piaroa , the ability to be social is considered to be the most important and valued characteristic of humans living on this earth . |
| 14 | What Derrida argues is that any discourse which conceives of itself as scientific is bound to be logocentric : it will assume that it is transparent to its object and that that object is a stable entity . |
| 15 | The Japanese are said to be keen to invest more , but worry about the safety of their executives there . |
| 16 | While applauding the women of anger , Miki was worried that it might mean that anyone who writes about anything less traumatic and violent is considered to be less important . |
| 17 | He has maintained that form and given that 40-plus is reckoned to be the minimum Test average for a truly great player , he should eventually retire — who knows when — with the record he wants . |
| 18 | ( 1.3 ) The possible argument consists in the premiss ( 1 ) that decisions and the like are taken to be effects but also to be no more than events which follow on conditions which are required for them , the further premiss ( 2 ) that it is to be presumed that we have a single conception of effects rather than several , and the conclusion ( 3 ) that all effects , including what have been called standard effects , are merely events preceded by conditions required for them . |
| 19 | The marginal costs of providing this particular public good are assumed to be constant . |
| 20 | By 1936 , the year of Rowntree 's second survey in York , 15 per cent of the poor were found to be old people , but this was still adjudged to be a far less significant cause of poverty than unemployment or low wages . |
| 21 | On the other hand , an excess of isolated teeth is all the more unlikely to be due to sampling error , and so excess is considered to be significant and to indicate preferential destruction of mandibles and maxillae . |
| 22 | Although the private good is assumed to be reputation from complying with an established custom of membership , it could also be regarded as any other form of excludable union benefit that is increasing in membership . |
| 23 | The mask she has to wear in order to be accepted as an equal is seen to be seriously flawed . |
| 24 | In the first place , though the sense of want is acute and even painful , yet the mere wanting is felt to be somehow a delight . |
| 25 | The Long Library , almost 200 ft. long is considered to be the room of the most outstanding beauty for it contains over 10,000 books plus various paintings by Van Dyck and Reynolds . |
| 26 | In particular , his idea that the depths of the sea were lifeless was shown to be false with the deep-sea dredges begun in connection with the laying of telegraph cables beneath the oceans . |
| 27 | But hang out for long enough , and something illegal was bound to be made available . |
| 28 | As the gap between the rich and the poor was perceived to be widening , students felt this was bad for them and the country as a whole . |
| 29 | Based on information from police and village heads , some of the 66 people still missing were believed to be dead ( although no other graves had been discovered ) , while the rest were reported to have joined a " trouble-maker group " which was said to be in hiding , according to an ABRI official . |
| 30 | Jostein Flo ( Jo-Flo ) of Sheffield United is rumoured to be a Leeds fan . |