Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Class 156 units ceased to be part of this operation from the 8th of July and presumably the temporary expedient of bus backup is in force if extra capacity is required . |
| 2 | The first forcible repatriations to Vietnam under a new accord signed by the United Kingdom and Vietnamese governments on May 12 [ see p. 38912 ] took place on June 19 , when 28 Vietnamese adults and 10 children deemed to be " economic migrants " were sent back from Hong Kong . |
| 3 | Clio outsold the Peugeot 205 and 106 models combined to be the best selling car in France , accounting for 11.1 % of car sales during 1992 . |
| 4 | It is worth knowing that you can run Qbasic from a floppy only system and using earlier version of MS-DOS all you need are the three files listed to be stored on the current drive . |
| 5 | Annette Rennoldson , of Tyne Avenue , Leadgate , Consett , had three girls thought to be the first all-female trio born at Shotley Bridge Hospital . |
| 6 | In 1986 TVEI ceased to be experimental , and in the White Paper Working Together. : Education and Training the Government put forward the plan for a national scheme with the aim that ‘ all young people in schools should have the opportunity of following a more relevant and practical curriculum leading to the achievement of recognized standards of competence and qualifications ’ . |
| 7 | In nineteen ninety one , of those six thousand employers found to be underpaying , just seventeen were prosecuted . |
| 8 | Six nuns from the Our Lady of the Passion monastery at Daventry end their hen house occupation to prevent the slaughter of 5,000 hens thought to be infected with salmonella . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sixteen children thought to be at high risk had a further individual assessment . |
| 11 | As she says herself , this is one lady born to be centre stage . |
| 12 | The pottery was as late as any in Roman Britain and even included one sherd thought to be ‘ Romano-Saxon ’ since it had impressed on to it a Saxon type of stamp ; however , the vessel was wheel-turned and clearly of Romano-British manufacture . |
| 13 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 14 | The high rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia among black people were at one time thought to be due to widespread misdiagnosis of bizarre behaviour and transient hallucinatory experiences by white psychiatrists unfamiliar with normal Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions of severe distress . |
| 15 | In addition , there are 15,000 people known to be HIV-positive and twice as many believed to be carrying the virus without requesting medical help . |
| 16 | It has been suggested that he also used birds as his trademark and a carving at Trull in Somerset shows a large ‘ W ’ supported by two birds thought to be woodpecker ; a medieval pun ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A partnership practice that operated from two offices ceased to be carried on when the partnership was dissolved and the two main equity partners continued as sole practitioners from their respective offices . |
| 19 | Sir , it 's our submission and the evidence of what you have heard and what you will see , that the two sites proposed to be excluded from the greenbelt are functionally part of the village , and distinct from the land the open agricultural land to the north , and are visually a part of the village , unrelated to the open countryside to the north . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better have my two dogs done to be on the safe side . |
| 21 | Two men thought to be about 19 struck when the 18year-old was on his way from work in Crown Street , Darlington , with the firm 's takings . |
| 22 | In a recent wardship case decided under the old law , Re H ( Minors ) ( Wardship : Sexual Abuse ) [ 1991 ] FLR 416 the Court of Appeal had to carry out just such a balancing exercise when deciding whether to make an interim care order in respect of four children alleged to be at risk of sexual abuse . |
| 23 | Two of the four specimens known to be infected with M tuberculosis were positive in the controlled experiment . |