Example sentences of "understood to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former building society is understood to be prepared to take court action if it does not wrest the compensation from Lloyds . |
| 2 | The Bank of England is understood to be keeping a watch as discussions continue between Eurotunnel and its four agent banks , which include the Midland and National Westminster . |
| 3 | ITV is understood to be concerned about what it sees as a weakening of its expensive agreement by individual clubs . |
| 4 | The Department of Health is understood to be highly sceptical . |
| 5 | GM , the world 's largest car maker , is understood to be planning to take an initial 15 per cent shareholding in Jaguar , rising to 29.9 per cent immediately the Government 's golden share in Jaguar expires in January 1991 . |
| 6 | Two or three European car makers — possibly including Peugeot of France - are still understood to be discussing alternative rescue packages with Jaguar . |
| 7 | The Government is also understood to be divided over whether the increase in base rates will provoke a recession . |
| 8 | Arts Council officers are understood to be considering changing the practice of handing out separate information about the arts to the different political party conferences . |
| 9 | Her sister , Khieu Ponnary , is married to Pol Pot , and was influential in the 1975 government , but is now understood to be confined to hospital because of mental illness . |
| 10 | Other directors are understood to be satisfied that he was not implicated in the fraud and had no knowledge of it . |
| 11 | The main problem is understood to be integrating the software and the microchip decoder apparatus in the receiver . |
| 12 | The rest of the evidence against Mr Ryan is understood to be mainly circumstantial . |
| 13 | Julian Bailey , despite failing to qualify his Lotus 102B at Phoenix , is understood to be prepared to commit himself to Lotus for the entire season — if Martin Donnelly is n't fit enough to race — backed by a personal investment of up to £75,000 , earned during two years with the Group C Nissan team . |
| 14 | Aetna , the large US insurance group is understood to be a front runner on the 20-strong list of potential buyers for Gartmore . |
| 15 | He is understood to be pressing ahead with the rest of the agenda set by his predecessor , Mr Douglas Hurd , including a white paper proposing less use of imprisonment for non-violent offenders . |
| 16 | With only 10 days to finalise the proposals before they must be announced in the Queen 's Speech , Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , chaired by her senior adviser , Professor Brian Griffiths , is also understood to be considering plans to make sharply increased tuition fees , rather than the block grant , the main means of distributing public money to higher education . |
| 17 | But if no progress is made towards full ethnic monitoring of the West Midlands case , the commission is understood to be prepared to raise the matter with Mr David Waddington , the Home Secretary , who is responsible for both the commission and the authority . |
| 18 | It was good to see references at last to what I had always understood to be the correct meaning of hostage ( April 27th ) — that is , ‘ a person given to another as a pledge ’ ( Oxford dictionary ) . |
| 19 | Is then an MP , who must keep the hours of a street-walker ; who is understood to be — if the public is to be believed — either impotent or corrupt ; who spends the best years of his life listening to Ministers , speeches , and to the complaints of his constituents ; is he to receive as his only reward after twenty years of service a signed photograph of Jim Prior ? |
| 20 | It was a struggle in which the heroic confessor of the faith was understood to be uniquely assisted by the Spirit of God , and more than one account tells of the ‘ victims ’ being granted visions to strengthen them . |
| 21 | So , when an Ikhwan ( widely understood to be fronting for the Amiri secretary ) proposed to make a grant to a Tibbu , ‘ all Zuwaya ’ , including at least some Awlad Amira , protested . |
| 22 | Mirror directors are understood to be deeply concerned about the mounting costs as the company continues to work on its 1991 results figures and a report on on its financial health , now expected later this month . |
| 23 | Mirror directors are understood to be deeply concerned about the mounting costs as the company continues to work on its 1991 results figures and a report on its financial health , now expected later this month . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The main problem is understood to be the difficulty of avoiding the impression that the principal characters are based on the real Royal family . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , investigators are understood to be examining an uncompleted property transaction between the French company and a Leichtenstein trust connected with Robert Maxwell . |
| 27 | Others are understood to be considering similar action . |
| 28 | Miss Boothroyd 's supporters are understood to be ready to put the issue to a vote , while there is an equal determination on the Tory side to put forward their preferred nominee . |
| 29 | The Government had two objectives : first to improve the country 's relations with the Community , damaged by years of squabbling over the Community 's demonstrably unfair agricultural and budgetary mechanisms , which had severely disadvantaged Britain , and , second , to fulfil what was understood to be the explicit goal of the Treaty of Rome , the establishment of a free trade zone based upon economic co-operation between member states . |
| 30 | In Italy , out of over two hundred listed companies , only seven have 50% of their shares in public hands and five are understood to be effectively controlled by family groupings . |