Example sentences of "[n mass] are [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 | Fish are judged to be unfit for human consumption at just 2 ppm . |
| 5 | Professional outlooks and personal feelings about cases and people are bound to be affected . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | About 1000 white people are believed to be infected . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is because older people are assumed to be less flexible , less motivated and more ‘ tired ’ than those in their 20s and early 30s . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The re-presented Holland Report data showed how young people are judged to be ‘ worse ’ by employers on age-related attributes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In ten years time , more than 600 million people are expected to be severely undernourished . |
| 16 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
| 17 | In just over an hour 's time up to twenty million people are expected to be watching one television programme — the final episode of Inspector Morse . |
| 18 | Altogether around 7,000 people are expected to be helped in locations as diverse as the inner cities to villages . |
| 19 | The overall facility is quietness and staff are trained to be unobtrusive . |
| 20 | The technical and professional activities of teaching staff are perceived to be so important that the task predominates to the subordination or exclusion of the process . |
| 21 | It remains true that only teaching staff are expected to be routinely exposed to both bottom-up evaluation and top-down development . |
| 22 | CHICKEN sales are expected to be at least double those of turkey this Easter and in an attempt to close the gap , the British Turkey Federation are spending £100,000 on a national press campaign stressing ‘ British turkey get 's everyone 's vote ’ . |
| 23 | The new missiles will be much more effective than their predecessors against the latest Russian tanks , and worldwide sales are estimated to be worth thousands of millions of pounds . |
| 24 | These three reactive oxygen species are believed to be responsible for tissue injury . |
| 25 | However , when observed over long periods , many species are found to be generalist in that individuals of them are capable of taking advantage of ‘ specialist ’ interactions at any one time : the ‘ anachronisms ’ show this , as do the generalized pollinators on islands where plants have ‘ left their pollinators behind ’ , e.g. a cetoniid beetle , Mauseolopsis aldabrensis , visits 58% of all flowering species , native or introduced , of all colours and morphology , on the coral atoll of Aldabra off the African coast , but it shows a remarkably high degree of constancy in its foraging flights . |
| 26 | It feeds on a wide variety of fish — 43 different species are known to be taken as prey . |
| 27 | Fleshy fruits , including figs are taken and over 100 species are known to be dispersed in this way . |
| 28 | So the two works are said to be both like one another and unlike . |
| 29 | Few have been sectioned , though the central pair are known to be contemporary with the main phase of the east-west road . |
| 30 | It should have been a problem because the personal details of Flora are meant to be secret , under the terms of a high court injunction granted in the middle of last month , Sarah is not allowed to discuss anything about her daughter with anyone , other than her legal and medical advisors . |