Example sentences of "[Wh pn] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the reason behind the payments is to placate high earners , some of whom are asking to be moved to overseas branches of their companies to avoid higher taxes . |
| 2 | This Astra was stolen by 5 teenagers , some of whom are thought to be as young as 13 . |
| 3 | It is also necessary , in areas where student members are small , to select experts who are seen to be neutral and do not have a conflict of interest with the college . |
| 4 | It may be that friends and relatives who are less affected by the death of the family member , could give some special attention to the children who are wanting to be comforted and to be told what is going on . |
| 5 | That is easier said than done for cash-strapped City , who are said to be losing £10,000 a week . |
| 6 | The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has been asked to look at the allegations and to arrange for certain persons who are said to be able to shed new light on the case to be interviewed . |
| 7 | Er the worst side obviously will be the drill bit side where Retool is not very significant in the North Sea Hycal on the other hand has a very strong market presence here er and Reler being submersible pumps and base based in enhanced recovery I would say the effect would be relatively neutral , though they do a lot of business with companies like B P who are said to be one of the beneficiaries . |
| 8 | One oil analyst described investor sentiment as a ‘ two-way pull between the Americans who are trying to be optimistic and the British who have been selling to them ’ . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I have got to express my admiration to residential staff who are trying to be positive and ensure the residents do n't suffer . |
| 10 | Brilliant story of three sisters who are determined to be famous but are dogged by tragedy . |
| 11 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |
| 12 | Health authorities and local authorities are sometimes willing to pay high prices to buy care for those one or two individuals who are felt to be unmanageable in their own services . |
| 13 | Questions are asked by people who lack a particular piece of knowledge , and questions are addressed to people who are assumed to be more knowledgeable about that topic . |
| 14 | Company sources said yesterday that British Aerospace and Thomson , who are believed to be negotiating a joint proposal , had not yet put anything to Ferranti which counted as a firm offer . |
| 15 | Police in Herefordshire were last night trying to trace Theresa 's relatives , who are believed to be on holiday . |
| 16 | The law has long recognised the right of society to remove children from parents who are believed to be damaging them and , in recent times , has become alert to more subtle kinds of damage . |
| 17 | Campaigners against the project point out that a mixture of economic recession and growing enthusiasm for energy efficiency may deprive Hydro-Quebec of the bulk of its potential revenue from the scheme , in the form of orders from US power supply companies , who are believed to be reconsidering the need to import power from Canada . |
| 18 | This may be excellent fodder for people who are aspiring to be the next winner of Mastermind . |
| 19 | I work with a number of young people who are aspiring to be writers and we have put together an anthology of Black women writing about their experiences from inside South Africa . |
| 20 | But such an individual usually defines him or herself against a body of people who are meant to be homogeneous and standard-issue . |
| 21 | If you look at who are meant to be ‘ Ethnic ’ , white women should realise that they can never be oppressed in the same way as can Black women . |
| 22 | Can you imagine it comrades , you would have a position in which we attempt to put into place a bureaucratic list of people who are meant to be Labour supporters , they are n't Labour members . |
| 23 | Clary , still remained the tramp , he loved to be , six days of the week , one along with many who are taken to be inhuman . |
| 24 | Not every author who has something to say on the subject of post-war sexual morality is included in the following discussion of each of the five categories , but rather those who are considered to be most representative of each genre are discussed . |
| 25 | The Child Protection Register provides a central record of all children in a given area who have been identified as abused , or who are considered to be at risk of abuse , and who therefore are currently the subject of an interagency plan to protect them . |
| 26 | Where contact with the organized public is necessary or unavoidable , steps are taken to retain the organizational initiative in the hands of the governmental authorities as far as possible , and to associate with people of like attitude rather than with those who are considered to be ‘ uncooperative ’ , ‘ militant ’ , ‘ extremist ’ for example . |
| 27 | Secondly , all the groups who are considered to be priorities by both the Government and the Opposition — low-income pensioners , low-income families and disabled people — have benefited significantly from what the Government have done in recent years . |
| 28 | It went on : ‘ No persons suffering from infectious diseases , dropsies , disordered in their intellect , nor any who are considered to be incurable will be admitted as in-patients , except in special cases . |
| 29 | Their aim is to give aid to groups of people who are held to be disadvantaged for any reason — because of ethnic origin , sex , sexual preference , age , unemployment or any kind of disability . |
| 30 | However , the introduction of the new lower 20% tax band on the first 2,000 of taxable income in March 1992 should help improve the position of some 4 million people who are thought to be at the lowest end of the income scale . |