Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be [noun prp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | This transcription machine is going to be lent to be Derek and Clare , who can argue about who has it where and when . |
| 2 | As the light grows , they are seen to be ROS and GUIL , and to be resting quite comfortably . |
| 3 | Iraq is only shown to be Saddam and the desert ; the people of Iraq are without faces and voices . |
| 4 | These countries were believed to be Romania and Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | It is believed to be Middlesbrough and Cleveland 's first set of national championship medals since Steve James won the junior title in 1959 and led his team to victory at Peterborough . |
| 6 | A splashy Belle-epoque tableau literally bursting at the edges with tumbling patrons leaping from the stage , frantic dancers , several pairs of identical twins and top-hatted gentlemen consorting with masked beauties , it was most entertaining decoration , and seemed reasonably estimated at $100–150,000 , though it sold to an American collector ( widely believed to be Iris and Gerald Cantor ) for a stunning $650,000 ( £373,500 ) . |
| 7 | At its most ludicrous , this makes the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley suspect , or worse than suspect , simply because it alludes to Edmund Waller , whereas the okay authors from Waller 's period , among pedestrian readers of Eliot 's essays , are taken to be Donne and Marvell . |