Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [vb pp] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when viewed from the ‘ outside ’ , the ‘ deviance ’ that such acts are deemed to possess is assured only by virtue of a community 's orientation to them as wrong , immoral , evil , etc . |
| 2 | In a few cases , prisoners are reported to have been deliberately executed without trial . |
| 3 | The work which convicted prisoners are required to do is often meaningless and degrading . |
| 4 | Only 500 copies are said to have been printed . |
| 5 | A million copies are estimated to have been in circulation by 1524 . |
| 6 | An area where some phenomena are known to have been faked , where the will to believe among participants may be very strong , and where observation happens under poor conditions , is hardly a promising one for scientists . |
| 7 | Nine workmen were reportedly employed at the Luxeuil-les-Bains foundry and authorities are said to have been alerted by the fact that Hains got behind with his Social Security payments . |
| 8 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 9 | No details of any other claims by 261 Squadron pilots are available , but their opponents are believed to have been aircraft on the 23° Gruppo C.T. , which had just returned from Libya . |
| 10 | I hope that local education authorities will have learnt some valuable lessons from this year 's experience and that they will take great care to consider what contingency plans are needed to avoid being caught napping again by a late rush of applicants . |
| 11 | ISC is understood to have small contracts in each of these territories but further ‘ phantom ’ contracts are believed to have been invented to make the company seem more successful than it was . |
| 12 | Large numbers of the birds are believed to have been shot down as they crossed Afghanistan and Pakistan en route to their summer breeding grounds along the River Ob , in eastern Russia . |
| 13 | In an experiment , we can be sure that there are no third variables which give rise to both X and Y because the only way in which the randomized control groups are allowed to vary is in terms of X . |
| 14 | Traders are reported to have been stockpiling the horns in the hope of higher prices should rhinos become extinct . |
| 15 | The missing funds are believed to have been deposited by four clients . |
| 16 | Schlieffen was dead by 1914 ( his dying words are reported to have been , ‘ It must come to a fight . |
| 17 | Feelings have often run high , especially where learning opportunities are perceived to have been mismanaged or ineptly handled . |
| 18 | Around 42 private traders were understood to have been executed and more than 500 detained in what observers regarded as a reflection of the country 's critical economic situation . |
| 19 | Many of the cars being repaired have been converted to accept unleaded according to manufacturers guidelines which suggest a quick correction of engine timing will do the trick . |
| 20 | The funds were said to have been laundered and deposited in foreign bank accounts . |
| 21 | As many as 60 political parties were believed to have been legalized or freshly created during the 13 months following the publication in December 1989 of the draft joint constitution for a unified Yemen . |
| 22 | On June 3 between six and eight members of left-wing parties were reported to have been arrested . |
| 23 | Nine of the 28 subjects were found to have been exceeding the speed limit on at least one of the four occasions . |
| 24 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 25 | Some carcases that were protected from scavenging by these larger birds and animals were found to have been scavenged by shrews , with the soft parts being eaten and the bones extensively gnawed and broken . |
| 26 | Some 200 of Aguinaldo 's supporters were reported to have been captured , but a further 100 or more , including Aguinaldo , escaped . |
| 27 | The ceasefire agreement came after a number of OLF supporters were reported to have been killed . |
| 28 | At least 1,600 people were reported on May 11 to have been arrested in northern Uganda following a military crackdown in areas north of Gulu in which scores of dissidents were said to have been killed . |
| 29 | A total of 1,540 lbs is estimated to have been smuggled into Yemen during that period — roughly equivalent to the horns of 240 rhinos . |
| 30 | Although it is conceded that a ‘ decline ’ occurred in a few trades , reformers are said to have been confused by terminology and to have failed to distinguish between ‘ deskilling of individual jobs and industrial changes which led to the number of jobs in certain industries or occupations declining either relatively or absolutely , but not to the nature of the job themselves changing ’ . |