Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home . |
| 2 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 3 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 4 | This occurs when individuals ' act in a way they know is destined to be hurtful to other members of the family , who , in response , reciprocate with actions they know will cause even more distress . |
| 5 | If what they discuss and teach is considered to be a danger to the state , they may be deemed guilty of ‘ thought crimes ’ . |
| 6 | One of those situations when any publicity we get is bound to be bad . ’ |
| 7 | You would reach your market more economically in a women 's magazine where the percentage of readers who knit is known to be high . |
| 8 | SNAP is set to be fronted by TWO girl singers . |
| 9 | And upon authority , this we think is established to be the law whether the things so brought be beasts , or water , or filth , or stenches . ’ |
| 10 | As long as the limitations are recognised and understood and those who allocate are seen to be acting fairly and using socially accepted criteria such as equity and efficiency , the use of rough , though conceptually sound , mechanisms ( for example , the original RAWP formula ) is most probably as good as we can get . |
| 11 | For white middleclass males , however , pride and dignity has little resonance , when all your life you 've been trained to be aspirational and competitive . |
| 12 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 13 | If the " we " code is taken to be the one which is closer to the " heart and mind " of the speaker , and hence the one which imparts greatest salience to a given message , then Creole , even though used sparingly , does indeed seem to fulfil the " we code " function for speakers in this community . |
| 14 | Traditionally form was considered to be a sort of ‘ decorative supplement ’ which provided the entertainment value while the business of instruction ( associated with the content ) went ahead . |
| 15 | TRADERS in Dungannon have been warned to be on the lookout for counterfeit £20 notes after ten forgeries were passed in business premises in the town . |
| 16 | SHOPPERS have been warned to be extremely careful about buying cheap goods after dangerous chemicals were found in packets of household washing powder . |
| 17 | Employees of oil companies in the city have been warned to be on the alert for anyone acting suspiciously near their offices . |
| 18 | Section 33 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 , even if it applies to composite rate tax , is not applicable for a number of reasons , not least that no valid assessment could be made under an invalid regulation , that no assessment was in fact made and that , even if made , the assessment could not on the facts of the present case have been said to be ‘ excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return : ’ section 33(1) . |
| 19 | In Britain various landforms have been said to be exhumed from beneath a covering of Triassic sediments . |
| 20 | The following are some of the features that have been said to be characteristic of primitive societies . |
| 21 | ‘ The one consolation is that my husband Samuel and David and I have been invited to be in the audience when Go For It is filmed . |
| 22 | However , in the past , many observations have been recognized to be valid before any rational or logical explanation could be advanced to account for them . |
| 23 | ‘ Because I have been born in England , I have been taught to be independent , original and to think for myself . |
| 24 | It is worth mentioning , however , that it is not always the nasal pathways that have been observed to be superior ( Neill , Sampson and Gribben , 1971 ) and that naso-temporal differences have sometimes been observed for one eye but not for the other ( Overton and Weiner , 1966 ; Markowitz and Weitzman , 1969 ; Beaton , 1977 ; 1979a ) . |
| 25 | Such focal points have been aligned to be both clearly seen from the house and as elements of surprise when walking through the garden , an essential element of any good design . |
| 26 | The implication is that the R , D and D or centre-periphery model had been wrongly conceived in its application to education , because it was premised on the possibly mistaken view that people are rational beings who will implement ideas that have been demonstrated to be effective . |
| 27 | Heparan sulphate proteoglycan , laminin , and collagen have all been shown to be linked across cell membranes to cytoskeletal elements , and cytoskeletal proteins have been demonstrated to be condensed at cell-cell and cell-matrix interfaces . |
| 28 | First , the magnetic storage formats which are fundamental to computing have been demonstrated to be inherently unstable . |
| 29 | Families have been felt to be rigid , narrow , and highly constraining institutions which repress the individual and stop the development of his or her individuality . |
| 30 | If the defendants should succeed in such an application , upon the ground that a verdict and judgment for libel in favour of the council , as a local government authority , would constitute a breach of article 10 , it would be for this country to decide whether to leave the law as it would , on that hypothesis , have been declared to be , or to change it to avoid the risk of repetition . |