Example sentences of "[n mass] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the NCO - ion the terminal atoms have similar masses and the force constants f(CO) and f(CN) are expected to be much the same . |
| 2 | Half of all aircraft are said to be inoperable and two thirds of all vessels are in port at any given time . |
| 3 | Thom 's theoretical analysis was based on the work of S.R. Broadbent , a statistician whose quantum hypothesis allows the extent to which data are quantised to be assessed objectively . |
| 4 | For intergroup comparison the data were assumed to be non-parametric and the Wilcoxon 's rank-sum comparison was used . |
| 5 | It also entitles observers from the State in which the aircraft is registered to be present at the inquiry if that State is not the State in which the accident occurs . |
| 6 | The crashed aircraft is believed to be one of three on attachment to RAF Lossiemouth in the north-east of Scotland … carrying out what is being described as tactical training . |
| 7 | Heron is understood to be confident its rescheduling programme , backed by a mass of financial information contained in three volumes , will be accepted by bankers and bondholders . |
| 8 | Surely they only take place when the data 's known to be applicable to people . ’ |
| 9 | A COUNCIL tax ranging from £297 to £900 is set to be fixed for householders in Fife . |
| 10 | Fish are judged to be unfit for human consumption at just 2 ppm . |
| 11 | 13% were found to be cognitively impaired . |
| 12 | According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ . |
| 13 | A uni-processor design , with a peak of 150 MIPS is said to be scalable to 300 MIPS ‘ over time . ’ |
| 14 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 15 | At least one high-readiness multinational corps is expected to be a rapid-deployment force that could be sent from central Europe to keep the peace or do battle elsewhere . |
| 16 | The short session on the mid-tide paid dividends for the fish is believed to be a rough ground record for the south west . |
| 17 | 9 The fastest fish is believed to be the sailfish , one of which was recorded doing 109km/h . |
| 18 | At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation . |
| 19 | The £50,000 is deemed to be a capital payment paid to the settlor as being paid or applied by the trustees for the benefit of the settlor . |
| 20 | Professional outlooks and personal feelings about cases and people are bound to be affected . |
| 21 | The point is that working people are bound to be concerned about issues which can not be tackled effectively without central government involvement , issues such as mass unemployment , inflation , industrial decline , poverty , the social effects of government expenditure cuts . |
| 22 | About 1000 white people are believed to be infected . |
| 23 | Between three and five hundred people are believed to be in detention solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression , association or assembly or their right to leave the country . |
| 24 | About 1.7m people are reckoned to be unemployed in Vietnam , and the pay of 1.2m civil servants is stuck at an average of 80,000 dong ( $10 ) a month . |
| 25 | This is because older people are assumed to be less flexible , less motivated and more ‘ tired ’ than those in their 20s and early 30s . |
| 26 | And , however badly Ratner appears to have screwed up the company 's finances — and public image — some people are said to be still willing to give him financial support . |
| 27 | The re-presented Holland Report data showed how young people are judged to be ‘ worse ’ by employers on age-related attributes . |
| 28 | One hundred and twenty people are thought to be dead and more than fifty are injured in what 's thought to be China 's worst air disaster . |
| 29 | They point to the increasing numbers of very old people who live on their own , and draw the invalid conclusion that kinship ties have weakened , and that obligations are no longer recognized , so that old people are left to be cared for predominantly by strangers . |
| 30 | In ten years time , more than 600 million people are expected to be severely undernourished . |