Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it was designed to be earthquake proof and to resist cannon fire , the installation of the revised air-conditioning system was a remarkable feat as well as a test of the building . |
| 2 | The study is designed to be pilot study of this important issue . |
| 3 | At Midland , we are committed to being market leaders in the provision of quality money transmission services . |
| 4 | Industry guru Marc Schulman has left UBS Securities to set up his own consulting operation , The Technology Strategies Group , whose primary customers are expected to be computer industry managers from both the hardware and software side . |
| 5 | And national guidance does contain some fairly specific indicators of what is expected to be structure plans . |
| 6 | The channel 's main competitor was expected to be Antenna TV , in which Minos Kyriakou , a Greek shipowner and supporter of the private radio station Antenna Radio , Rupert Murdoch and Leo Kirch , the United States and West German media tycoons , each held shareholdings . |
| 7 | However , the fact that 90 seats were to be reserved for workers , peasants , scientists , intellectuals , artists , students and ethnic minorities " active in the revolution " ( all of whom were expected to be NSF supporters drawn from its 145-member Council ) led to opposition accusations that the NSF meant to retain power . |
| 8 | THE ALton Carnival is expected to be lion size this year , with villages involved too . |
| 9 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 10 | The play would turn on two questions : did the man officially claimed to be Rudolf Hess really hang himself , and was he Hess at all ? |
| 11 | Um so er but nevertheless those sort of things are n't often considered to be child sex abuse . |
| 12 | The act created the concept of commercial contracts and of traders having a firm registered at the ‘ Firm Registry ’ and also dealt with partnerships , limited partnerships , joint-stock companies , and co-operatives ( which were considered to be business enterprises ) . |
| 13 | Edward VI had n't reached sixteen years of age before he died , in July 1553 , and for just nine days Lady Jane Grey was considered to be Queen Jane , but the country was not prepared to accept her as Queen . |
| 14 | He continued to make radio broadcasts and took one of the lead roles in Noye 's Fludde , based on the Chester Miracle Play and widely considered to be Benjamin Britten 's masterpiece of children 's music . |
| 15 | As we have seen , linguistic variables may be markers of certain fine-grained social functions within the community , which can be broadly considered to be identity functions , and which may appear as age , sex or areal differences , for example . |
| 16 | Jean Collin , generally considered to be President Abdou Diouf 's closest aide , on April 13 lost his posts as political secretary of the ruling Parti socialiste ( PS ) and as chair of the organizing committee for the forthcoming party congress in June 1990 . |
| 17 | Salah Khalaf , known by his nom de guerre of Abu Iyad , was considered to be PLO chairman Yassir Arafat 's closest and most influential aide , while Hayil Abd al-Hamid ( Abu al-Hol ) was the PLO 's chief of security ; the third man who died was Fakhri al-Umari ( Abu Muhammad ) , an aide to Abu Iyad . |
| 18 | Villages with vineyards rated between go and 99% inclusive are considered to be premiers crus while those classed at 100% are grands crus . |
| 19 | It would also have to be decided whether direct income payments and other forms of support for farmers would be exempt or would be considered to be export subsidies . |
| 20 | The bidder appeared as soon as the stock market opened , but TVS boss Rudolph Agnew is keeping his identity a secret , although it is tipped to be US firm TCW Capital . |
| 21 | there were there were riveters deemed to be shell men , or riveters deemed to be er superstructure as you say , where they worked on cases etcetera . |
| 22 | The receipt of bulk payments from the legal aid board may include amounts in respect of unpaid professional disbursements ( which under the SAR are deemed to be client money ) , which it may be impracticable to split into office and client accounts immediately . |
| 23 | 9.2 Party walls The internal non-load bearing walls that divide the Premises from the adjoining units in the Centre and from the Retained Parts shall be deemed to be party walls within the meaning of the Law of Property Act 1925 section 38 and shall be maintained at the equally shared expense of the Tenant and the other respective estate owners As the footnote to the precedent states , the object of this provision is that the tenant and the adjoining estate owner ( who could be either another tenant or even the landlord ) will share the responsibility for the internal divisional walls . |
| 24 | Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager . |
| 25 | Tito had in fact already issued orders that persons suspected of being war criminals should be tried by military courts [ KPs 89 and 105 ] . |
| 26 | The most famous knight in his following , William Marshal , was suspected of being Queen Margaret 's lover . |
| 27 | Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems . |
| 28 | What he does have is all packed away inside his leotard — destined to be cult items . |
| 29 | To take the most extreme case , the first English comedy is generally reckoned to be Nicholas Udall 's Ralph Roister-Doister ( date uncertain , but c.1560 ) . |
| 30 | I represent a group of women wanting to have children by men prepared to be semen donors . |