Example sentences of "people are [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional outlooks and personal feelings about cases and people are bound to be affected . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | About 1000 white people are believed to be infected . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is because older people are assumed to be less flexible , less motivated and more ‘ tired ’ than those in their 20s and early 30s . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The re-presented Holland Report data showed how young people are judged to be ‘ worse ’ by employers on age-related attributes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In ten years time , more than 600 million people are expected to be severely undernourished . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Altogether around 7,000 people are expected to be helped in locations as diverse as the inner cities to villages . |