Example sentences of "is [verb] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threshold at which mental handicap is considered to commence is at an IQ of 70 , although people with IQs of between 50 and 70 are considered only mildly mentally handicapped , and most children in this category will pass through the educational process along with other children . |
| 2 | If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed . |
| 3 | Indeed , he is said to have been beside himself with rage and looking to pick a violent quarrel with anyone who happened along . |
| 4 | It is said to have been at one time the world 's largest spinning mill under one roof . |
| 5 | SULTRY : Carla is said to have been at the chateau |
| 6 | Thus for example it is sometimes held to be of significance that the first appearance of the resurrected Christ is said to have been to a woman . |
| 7 | A tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People , who live on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria , in northern Australia , is said to have been in direct communication for thousands of years with the wild bottlenose dolphins who reside just off the coast . |
| 8 | Gunpowder is said to have been in use in certain Continental mines early in the 17th Century . |
| 9 | Along with Santa Cruz Operation Inc and IXI Ltd , Unix System Laboratories is said to have been amongst those approached by a gang of users and integrators known as Galileo , who are trying to get the industry working on a common graphical user interface end environment that behaves the same way regardless of which operating system and hardware lies underneath ( UX No 415 ) . |
| 10 | The rhetoric of the Right in recent years , is that women have acquired rights and opportunities in the public world , especially in the labour market , but this , it is alleged has been at the expense of their families . |
| 11 | Its date is uncertain but is thought to have been about 9Myr , and it is placed at this date on the phylogeny in Box 3 ( identified as SH ) . |
| 12 | Miss Harrison , of North Green , Staindrop , is thought to have been on the way home from a riverside barbecue when the accident happened just before 11 pm . |
| 13 | ‘ The only way this is going to end is by political resolution and that is what we have been campaigning for . |
| 14 | He is understood to have been on his way home from a nightclub when he died . |
| 15 | It was bought by Baron Meyer de Rothschild for Mentmore before 1860 , and is known to have been in Palazzo Manfrini , Venice , by the 1850s . |
| 16 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 17 | May is known to have been in the service of George Villiers , second Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , |
| 18 | He is known to have been in receipt of pensions from at least three institutional clients ( the abbeys of Glastonbury and Ramsey and the priory of Durham ) and probably received similar pensions from many other individuals and institutions . |
| 19 | There was serious foreign interest in Esselte 's publishing division when it was first put on the market early in 1990 , and Hachette is known to have been in negotiation before an agreement with Liber was finally concluded . |
| 20 | That is not say that those whom it is hoped to benefit are in any sense undemanding or unsophisticated . |
| 21 | Its last rebuilding is believed to have been during the first quarter of the 19th century . |
| 22 | ( This is not the present ladies ' room but is believed to have been on the first floor of the main clubhouse where it was known to be in the 1940 's at least ) . |
| 23 | The Kitchings ' workplace which is believed to have been on the grassed wasteland in front of North Road museum became known as Hopetown Foundry . |
| 24 | One bus is believed to have been from west Belfast . |
| 25 | The altar was discovered at the end of the eighteenth century close to the remains of the Villa of Tiberius on Capri and is believed to have been among objects looted by British troops in 1806 . |
| 26 | The ‘ 18T was radically different to earlier variants , a totally new fuselage having been designed to give side-by-side instead of tandem seating and first flight is believed to have been in 1967 . |
| 27 | He is believed to have been near the scene of the crime and to have a record of sexual assaults on girls . |
| 28 | It is not known exactly how this operated , but it is presumed to have been on some kind of contract basis . |
| 29 | The child who is learning to read is in a situation that is likely to encourage him to begin to consider possibilities in relation to at least one important act of thought : the apprehension of meaning . |
| 30 | That could well be a bit of verisimilitude , it may well be the original man Moses was a powerful man with a powerful temper and perhaps this was come down to us er as , as a bit of historical truth , but erm nevertheless the whole figure of Moses and his laws by later generations and this , this th what Freud is trying to do is to erm undo this rewriting the process again truth . |