Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] to be " in BNC.

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1 Fairies are reported to be thick on the ground living in grassy mounds all over the island .
2 The use of these tests can seem threatening to the status of the interviewee , in the sense that hidden secrets are going to be discovered .
3 Practice Notes are intended to be persuasive , rather than prescriptive , and have a lower level of authority than Statements of Auditing Standards .
4 How interesting these Oscars are proving to be .
5 Discussions are understood to be under way with several companies which have expressed an interest in setting up alongside the plant to supply components to Motorola , which operates on a just-in-time principle of bringing in materials just as they are required for the production process .
6 In the run-up to next month 's Twickenham showdown , discussions are understood to be taking place on the staging of a floodlit fixture to officially hansel the completed Murrayfield super-stadium in the autumn of 1994 .
7 Some fear that the statement could catch ‘ innocent ’ schemes as well as any that clearly defeat the purpose of the legislation , and discussions are reported to be taking place between the Revenue and the profession as to how exactly the statement will be implemented .
8 What is much more interesting , I have already suggested , is the idea that there could be patterns of behaviour which human beings are entirely capable of wanting and indeed , on an individual or limited scale , of achieving , but which for biological reasons are bound to be psychologically costly , or confined to a small group of otherwise unusual individuals , or otherwise bound to fail as general social institutions .
9 It is the difference between a necessary empirical shift , when reasoning is taken across to one of its presumed objects and must take the full strain of the encounter , and a deceptive ( because falsely generalized ) empiricism , in which certain kinds of attention to certain presumptively autonomous objects are held to be justified and protected by the terms of an unargued immediacy .
10 The evidence presented is consistent with a standard single equation approach to asset demands as the level and growth of wealth together with expected relative returns are shown to be important determinants of the level of investment .
11 Schooldays are said to be the happiest days in your life but for Asian children in Britain they are often the harshest .
12 Category A prisoners are reckoned to be the most dangerous to the public if they escape .
13 In Scotland , for example , prisoners are beginning to be referred to as ‘ customers ’ .
14 In addition , they say that prisoners are going to be employed in the kitchens to work alongside civilian staff , because recruitment is so difficult .
15 Generally , the accounts are required to be audited by an auditor appointed by the same Secretary of State .
16 The sufferings of the young when first they go away from home and try to hold their own with cruel contemporaries are felt to be very great even when they are not .
17 If cash flows are expected to be predictable then there will be no special virtue in liquidity and you would earn a higher rate of interest from a straightforward money market deposit .
18 Frontrunners are said to be British Aerospace and Daimler Benz .
19 Most of the insiders ' skills are assumed to be firm specific , acquired over the years and difficult to replicate in the short to medium run .
20 Because mathematical skills are perceived as being easy to define and to recognise , and because such skills are perceived to be relevant , schools may be attacked if it is believed that they are not teaching such skills effectively .
21 Another march is being held in Bonn next Monday , three days before the summit , when 50,000 Germans are expected to be on the streets .
22 Illustrations are seen to be a motivating factor for poor readers , but they are otherwise considered to be a distraction and ‘ do not themselves make the reading level of the prose any lower ’ ( ibid .
23 These problems or investigations are expected to be diverse .
24 When a government is weak and under pressure and when policies are seen to be failing , little authority may attach to a Prime Minister and the advantages of office are rapidly turned to personal disadvantage .
25 Three operations are said to be on the verge of bankruptcy because their claims — submitted through the ‘ one door ’ compensation office in Lerwick — have not been met .
26 Many of the Asian designers the US trade weekly talked to were worried about the 66MHz clock frequency , because at that speed , stray radiations become a serious problem and it is unlikely that garage operations are going to be able to knock up boards using the chip that will work .
27 The pennants date from 1974 , while the chains are believed to be five years older .
28 Where documents are admitted during the discovery process , RSC Order 27 rule 4(1) provides that copies are presumed to be ‘ true ’ unless authenticity is disputed by the other party .
29 in pairs are thought to be clever dicks , sorry .
30 Those jellies whose natural frequency matches the frequency of the shakes will oscillate with the greatest amplitude — the two frequencies are said to be ‘ in resonance ’ .
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