Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 109 contains the requirements for the appointment of an independent valuer ( who must be an accountant qualified to be the auditor of that company ) and the contents of his report . |
| 2 | At an ideological level , the purposes of segregated education systems were spelled out in the Bantu Education Act of 1953 , which created an education proclaimed to be ‘ appropriate ’ to the limited prospects for black people under apartheid . |
| 3 | An observer affected to be shocked at the absence of Bibles from the ‘ Bedside Books ’ section , but Fred Leson soon remedied this from his wonderful store . |
| 4 | AN ENVOY believed to be a Russian double-spy is in hiding in Britain . |
| 5 | The arrogant and handsome hunter is an image seen to be as disruptive to community relations as that of the ‘ promiscuous woman ’ . |
| 6 | Any such artefact may seek either to proclaim or to hide the material used and the constraints the material has imposed upon the technological process : a mask may be thought to incorporate the spiritual properties of the wood from which it is taken ; a group of people may refuse to purchase an item known to be of seal skin ; a plastic may seek to copy a more traditional material ; the gold from which an object is made may have far greater significance than the actual form into which it has been hammered . |
| 7 | It has been thought that Freud was assuming that there can be inheritance of acquired characteristics , an idea shown to be fallacious in modern biology . |
| 8 | One night in 1962 Kurdish rebels entered a Kirkuk cinema disguised as policemen and silently surrounded an officer known to be torturing opponents of the government . |