Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the remainder of the known fortified sites are plotted on a map ( fig. 7.1 ) most of them are seen to be distributed along three routes : |
| 2 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad that those that have them are said to be ‘ tea-bagging ’ them — moving their precious chips from system to system to prove to customers that their box works , then quickly back into the safe . |
| 3 | Witnesses said armed soldiers kept up an overnight siege at Kinshasa 's People 's Palace conference centre because the notes used to pay them are said to be cursed and are almost impossible to spend . |
| 4 | For instance , discharges frequently run from septic tanks in the grounds of country cottages , many of whose occupants are old people who have the sympathies of field men , since most of them are believed to be badly off . |
| 5 | Some of them are held to be responsible for relaxation phenomena at low temperatures while folds are of great importance in the crystallization of polymers . |
| 6 | This hypothesis is supported by the fact that most plant families that produce bird-dispersed seeds are of very wide distribution and that several of them are held to be primitive , e.g. Annonaceae , Lauraceae , while several genera conspicuous in this trait are found in both tropical America and Australasia . |
| 7 | Although the effects of loss vary from one individual to another , on the whole it seems that men tend to fare a little better in bereavement than women , and fewer of them are found to be in need of psychiatric treatment for chronic grief and depression . |
| 8 | Do n't forget that for tonight at least you and I are meant to be lovers . ’ |
| 9 | I am delighted that he has chosen to introduce a Bill on nurse prescribing and I am honoured to be associated with it as one of its sponsors . |
| 10 | ‘ I am determined to be a healing factor who brings people together . |
| 11 | I am determined to be happy despite your scolding ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I am determined to be involved for my country and my own career satisfaction . |
| 13 | ‘ I will never stir from your side , when I am suffered to be near you . |
| 14 | Although my brief has been to examine animal communication , I am bound to be asked whether the Darwinian approach can add anything to understanding the connections between what animals do and what we do . |
| 15 | She was a mutilated machine , and besides she has already forgotten him : I am meant to be comforted by that ? |
| 16 | Earlier this summer he similarly told the Observer 's Mark Frankland ‘ The more I am forced to be active in politics , the more I enjoy doing theatre . ’ |
| 17 | I am expected to be present where there is beer flowing . ’ |
| 18 | I am considered to be fairly outgoing but as a teenager I was painfully shy . |
| 19 | I am resigned to being addressed by the new name of Pax-Wanxie , but if she is to become a mere conduit of the Paxford philosophy it will be a very great bore . |
| 20 | I loved him ; that is why I am allowed to be harsh . |
| 21 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm bound to be taken for the chauffeur , ’ he laughed out , mispronouncing the word with relish but he was not corrected as he hoped . |
| 23 | So I 'm bound to be recognised . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm bound to be a marked man because of the goals I 've scored this season , but there will be more along soon — I 'm sure of that . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm a sister , so I 'm bound to be a dragon . ’ |
| 26 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 27 | ‘ I tell thee I ai n't got a bleedin' farthing and even if I had I 'm expected to be working . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm encouraged to be more open and vulnerable with you when you … ’ |
| 29 | But there , at my age , I 'm permitted to be a little foolish . |
| 30 | And I 'm meant to be on holiday . |