Example sentences of "what is [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently , all FIMBRA members are able to offer pensions advice , even though they may not be properly qualified in what is acknowledged to be a highly complex area . |
| 2 | It is not the case that we can or do simply distinguish , in a completely neutral way , some major historical types of political system , even in the non-evolutionist manner that I have suggested ; for on one side , what is seen to be significant in the past is influenced by current concerns , and on the other side these concerns have , in any case , a very great practical importance and are bound to engage much of the attention of political thinkers . |
| 3 | They are not neutral with respect to what is seen to be the current orthodoxy . |
| 4 | Taxes raised on what is reckoned to be the world 's largest untaxed industry would help governments spend money on treatment and education , which would do more good than the billions currently spent on attempting to throttle the criminal supply of drugs of all sorts . |
| 5 | THE Chinese Premier , Mr Li Peng , yesterday made what is believed to be his most forthright attack yet on the reforms sweeping Eastern Europe during a private meeting with a delegation from Hong Kong . |
| 6 | THE Chinese Premier , Mr Li Peng , yesterday made what is believed to be his most forthright attack yet on the reforms sweeping Eastern Europe during a private meeting with a delegation from Hong Kong . |
| 7 | Judgements of students are often made on the basis of the subjective values of teachers or ward staff , that is , on what is believed to be good practice . |
| 8 | BDO Seidman has won what is believed to be the first successful countersuit by an auditor against a former client . |
| 9 | A COUPLE and their teenage daughter were found gassed in their car yesterday in what is believed to be a suicide pact . |
| 10 | The LTA magazine sells less than 10,000 copies in newsagents , and is subsidised through LTA membership fees to the tune of what is believed to be nearly £250,000 . |
| 11 | Wandering through the spacious grounds you will come upon what is believed to be the remains of an earlier 12th-century castle visited by five kings of England during the 12th and 13th centuries . |
| 12 | In an attempt to redress some of this balance , FlyPast has undertaken the compiling of what is believed to be the most comprehensive list of surviving World War Two Japanese aircraft yet published . |
| 13 | Likewise theological truth is held to exist in a sphere of its own , unaffected by scientific discoveries or knowledge which we now have which clashes with what is believed to be the biblical revelation . |
| 14 | What is believed to be the head of an Irish elk , which was found in a peat bog at Kildalton in 1870 , provides one of our first problems . |
| 15 | In other words , what is seen , or rather what is believed to be seen , as numerically distinct , need not be numerically distinct in reality . |
| 16 | Even in 1839 , an estimated 50,000 had watched what is believed to be the first running of the race Aintree . |
| 17 | Nigel Worthington appears to have got over the disappointment of losing in last week 's FA Cup final replay to Arsenal and will play what is believed to be his 67th game of the season tomorrow . |
| 18 | Certainly the recent discovery of what is believed to be a fifth example , at Trelleborg in Skåne , may add significantly to our knowledge . |
| 19 | Religious faith is based on what is believed to be true . |
| 20 | In what is believed to be the first development of its kind , a new hospital under construction in north-eastern England is being fitted with a range of energy-saving features which may reduce annual energy bills by as much as 60 per cent . |
| 21 | Six chemical companies and a property developer have agreed to pay damages of $207 million in what is believed to be the largest settlement of a court case over a toxic waste dump . |
| 22 | In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Scotland , the teenager alleges that after more than a year of taunting and physical attack she could not continue and left the Royal High School . |
| 23 | In 1969 Mr Walker performed what is believed to be Teesside 's first successful aortic graft , the replacement of the body 's main blood vessel with a false vessel . |
| 24 | In 1969 , Mr Walker performed what is believed to be Teesside 's first successful aortic graft the replacement of the body 's main blood vessel with a false vessel . |
| 25 | In her capacity as patron of Relate , the princess was making what is believed to be her first visit to such a centre since her separation from the prince was announced late last year . |
| 26 | Perform beyond what is assumed to be their potential best . |
| 27 | In contrast , the gigantic photographic images depicting what the curator Jeffrey Deitch has called our Strange Developments act to bludgeon what is assumed to be our jaded sensibilities , but more obviously demonstrate the burn out of a certain faction of the mid Atlantic artworld , curators and buyers . |
| 28 | Talks with Mr Bush and his National Security Advisor , General Brent Scowcroft , are to be followed by a what is planned to be as informal a lunch as Mrs Thatcher 's presence will permit . |
| 29 | The objectives of each initiative should be clearly described , along with information on what has been achieved to date , and what is planned to be achieved . |
| 30 | If he 's on song he can unlock what is bound to be a very defensive set-up by Neuchatel . |