Example sentences of "and is [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ceausescu 's aim in issuing such a threat was probably to frighten Hungary , but Romania already has the delivery system in the form of Soviet built Scud missiles and is believed to be developing its own missile with the help of Egypt and Iraq . |
| 2 | His family woollen business was founded in 1541 and is believed to be the oldest family business of its kind in the world . |
| 3 | It will allow instant and easy access , on computer screens , to the financial reports and results of 4.5m companies in over 40 countries , and is believed to be the largest integrated online database of its kind . |
| 4 | The clay-puddled cutting itself was of single-break shape and is believed to be the earliest example of the type . |
| 5 | Maria Elena Aparicio was sentenced to seven years and is believed to be held in a women 's prison in Havana . |
| 6 | Our most famous memorial is the Lambarde Brass which is unique and is believed to be of Flemish workmanship . |
| 7 | Currently , the Navy runs half its school at Aldershot and the other half at Devonport and is believed to be keen , for financial reasons if nothing else , to re-locate on to one site . |
| 8 | Cholesterol nucleation is preceded by vesicle aggregation and fusion , and is believed to be an initial step in the formation of cholesterol gall stones . |
| 9 | The remaining population of the " white ghost " dolphin , as it is known locally , now stands at between 150 and 350 , and is believed to be falling fast under pressure from pollution resulting largely from intensive construction work on the massive new offshore Chek Lap Kok island airport . |
| 10 | Transport Secretary John MacGregor , MP for Norfolk South , has been approached by the family of Bondone of his constituents and is believed to be making his own contact with Sir Nicholas . |
| 11 | This new system , now known as the Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) , began to operate on 1 April 1990 , and is planned to be completely in operation by April 1993 . |
| 12 | As a general rule a restrictive covenant restricts competition and is presumed to be void and unenforceable because such restrictions are contrary to public policy . |
| 13 | The full circuit diagram for the UV Exposure Timer is given in Fig. 1 and is seen to be based around a simple 555 timer chip IC1 , wired as a monostable . |
| 14 | ‘ Chronicle is an up-and-coming house , and is seen to be different , which is good for us , ’ he said . |
| 15 | She 's attractive , successful and is engaged to be married . |
| 16 | He lives in Kilmarnock and is engaged to be married next year . |
| 17 | She moved to Scotland in May and is engaged to be married . |
| 18 | Alan lives in Paisley and is engaged to be married to Lorraine McDonald , a Research Fellow of Strathclyde University . |
| 19 | There is also a wonderful opportunity for groups to organize Amnesty events around the 28th , as The Big Three-O is already creating enormous media interest , and is bound to be a very high profile event for Amnesty . |
| 20 | Strategically , what happens there has always been and is bound to be of vital interest to Britain . |
| 21 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 22 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 23 | It will be composed of observers from Spain , West Germany and Canada and is scheduled to be deployed in the area by the end of the month . |
| 24 | The £21 million contract is being undertaken by Thompson Nuclear Engineering , a subsidiary of Rolls Royce Nuclear Engineering Services , and is scheduled to be completed by October 1994 . |
| 25 | This handbook now nears completion and is scheduled to be launched at a one-day conference on Health & safety organised by the NAFD . |
| 26 | Even our code of etiquette , with its rule that women always have precedence , is a legacy from courtly love , and is felt to be far from natural in modern Japan or India … |
| 27 | We have , then , two different kinds of language as potential objects for study : one abstracted in order to teach a language or literacy , or to study how the rules of language work , and another which has been used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent ( and may , or may not , happen to correspond to a correct sentence or a series of correct sentences ) . |
| 28 | It 'll be around 30 minutes long and is intended to be a trailer for their new full length video which will be released later this year [ Summer time ? ] . |
| 29 | It is a multi-author work , organised by the Institute for Energy Analysis of Oak Ridge Universities , and is intended to be part of the broad CO 2 programme in the US that has already produced several official reports on different aspects of the problem , and will lead to a comprehensive report in 1985 . |
| 30 | This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God . |