Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only technologies considered to be difficult to implement were wave power , hot dry rocks and aquifers , although they have adequate supplies of hot dry rocks . |
| 2 | The mujaheddin delegation was led by Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the Islamic Society of Afghanistan , and represented all nine of the Iran-based Shia groups and four of the seven Pakistan-based Sunni groups reported to be willing to negotiate with the Kabul government . |
| 3 | The option of a ‘ Swedish solution ’ , by means of a merger with Volvo , was not seriously considered in view of the restructuring and job losses considered to be inevitable from the merger of two specialist car manufacturers . |
| 4 | The early animal links were therefore retained either in the god 's shape , in the attributes assigned to him , or in his association with certain animals deemed to be sacred to him . |
| 5 | where N is the maximum number of channels seen to be open simultaneously during the recording ( lasting 20–30 s ) , n represents the state of the channels ( 0=closed , 1=one channel open , etc ) , and t n is the time spent in state n . |
| 6 | This cuts down both the necessary search and the number of candidates found to be allowable . |
| 7 | Most recently these additions have included deputy heads known to be active in researching and developing study skills and packs of INSET resources concerned with information skills and project work . |
| 8 | Depositors ceased to be able to withdraw their money . |
| 9 | It had been faced and dealt with in the early centuries of the church and later along the lines that the inspiration of the Bible did not mean that God simply dictated the words , or that the authors ceased to be human and fallible . |
| 10 | She said she thought the parents needed to be clear about what limits they felt they had to place on Pamela 's behaviour . |
| 11 | Cerebral areas thought to be devoted to motor aspects of speech planning and execution ( for example supplementary motor area ( SMA ) , cerebellum and possibly primary sensorimotor areas of mouth and larynx ( BA 4 , 3 , 2 , 1 ) and BA 6 ) were activated by our experimental tasks even though there was no overt speech . |
| 12 | And no doubt a sensible formula would have been devised in order to tell the jury that which was in the circumstances agreed to be appropriate . |
| 13 | Other countries known to be interested in bioconversion to ethanol include Australia ( cassava ) and New Zealand ( beet ) . |
| 14 | During counterinsurgency operations government forces sometimes used rape and sexual abuse to try and extract information from women suspected of involvement with the armed opposition , or even to punish women merely for living in areas known to be sympathetic to insurgents . |
| 15 | The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) announced on Feb. 3 that Libya had agreed to allow it to inspect any sites rumoured to be involved in the development of nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | The chemical structures of isoniazid and Marsilid were , somewhat distantly , related to that of several of the amines known to be present in living tissues . |
| 17 | When parents ceased to be available , primitive man could well have felt the loss , and the need to transfer the dependence elsewhere and this led eventually to some form of imagined substitute , or ‘ god ’ as the surrogate . |
| 18 | At this stage the selector should note down as much information as possible against each title , including the reason it was marked as a possible purchase — because recommended in a select bibliography , for instance , or as a replacement for a much-used copy on the shelves — and perhaps some form of starring system to identify titles thought to be outstanding of their kind . |
| 19 | This consideration can affect the process of data modelling since the cognitive models available define the ‘ entities thought to be relevant to the task in hand ’ . |
| 20 | Originally , the lymphocyte function associated LFA-3 ( CD58 ) glycoprotein was identified as the CD2 ligand ; these were the first two molecules shown to be involved in heterophilic adhesion and their interaction is likely to be a paradigm for adhesion interactions within the IgSF . |
| 21 | He shows us the modifications which objects thought to be inanimate impose on each other … |
| 22 | As we have seen , the Gospels were written to meet that need , so by examining carefully their contents we will gain an overall impression of the range of information which the early Christians deemed to be necessary for an adequate ongoing commitment to be made . |
| 23 | Immigration officials would be empowered to refuse entry to foreign nationals deemed to be economic migrants , while processing of applications for political asylum would be speeded up . |
| 24 | The fieldwork is conducted monthly on a quota sample of two thousand individuals selected to be representative of the adult population of Great Britain ; more details about opinion polling companies and their methods are given in the appendix to this chapter . |
| 25 | Although much of the racism that black job-seekers experience is of a direct and overt kind , it is important to recognize that a variety of indirect forms of discrimination also operates against black people in the search for employment , ranging from common employers ' practices like recruiting relatives and children of existing workers to the operation of particular conceptions of the ‘ good ’ worker which militate against the employment of workers thought to be different in manner or appearance ( Lee and Wrench , 1983 ; Blackburn and Mann , 1979 ; Jenkins , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | " How d' you explain its high incidence in places known to be malodorous ? " |
| 27 | Reports in South Africa said a number of members of the Broederbond , the secret Afrikaner pressure group , were included in the talks , as well as individuals known to be close to Gerrit Viljoen , the Constitutional Planning Minister . |
| 28 | A neutron activation analysis study of these ceramics ( such as the pharmacy bottle in Figure 6.4 ) has so far tested pieces known to be local products from over twenty maiolica centres in Italy . |
| 29 | A commonsense method of finding out about elites in politics might be to look at formal membership of political institutions and of social or economic organisations known to be active in politics . |
| 30 | Government defeats ceased to be unusual . |