Example sentences of "[noun sg] be understood to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABS describes his fears as " irrational " but Nuclear Electric is understood to be seriously concerned at the implications . |
| 2 | The basis of Pink , the Apple/IBM ( Taligent ) object-oriented operating system of the future is understood to be a proprietary microkernel called Opus that began life in Apple back in 1988 . |
| 3 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 4 | The car is understood to be owned by the mother of the driver . |
| 5 | He was taken to Walton Hospital where his condition is understood to be stable . |
| 6 | The Institute is understood to be investigating the activities of Sting 's auditors Moore Sloane , which closed down in September . |
| 7 | Aetna , the large US insurance group is understood to be a front runner on the 20-strong list of potential buyers for Gartmore . |
| 8 | The charge is understood to be connected to the discovery of ten bags of fertiliser at a house in the west of the city last weekend . |
| 9 | The advantage of a ‘ message ’ Christology would seem to be that , with the shift of concentration from the person of Christ to his message , we circumvent the problems which present themselves when the symbol of a male person is understood to be central to Christianity . |
| 10 | In such a situation behaviour is understood to be analogous to war . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the infinitive event is understood to be realized after verbs of achievement ( I managed , got to ask the Prime Minister a question ) , causation ( I persuaded , convinced him to give up smoking ) , etc . |
| 12 | But if no progress is made towards full ethnic monitoring of the West Midlands case , the commission is understood to be prepared to raise the matter with Mr David Waddington , the Home Secretary , who is responsible for both the commission and the authority . |
| 13 | In developing styles of music to make worship accessible to as many people as possible , the primary aim of music in the house church movement is understood to be to glorify God . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the notion of change of state does not have to be a criterial trait of the meaning of the verb ( see Cruse , 1986 ) ; it is sufficient that a change of state is understood to be compatible with the lexical value of the verb . |
| 15 | The former building society is understood to be prepared to take court action if it does not wrest the compensation from Lloyds . |
| 16 | HP is understood to be contributing parts of its DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility and IBM parts of its SOM to the object core layer . |
| 17 | The bid to obtain Objective One status is understood to be on a knife edge and caution was the order of the day . |
| 18 | The Department of Health is understood to be highly sceptical . |
| 19 | But the legal profession is understood to be concerned that such a move would compromise the impartial working of the Forensic Science Laboratories . |
| 20 | At least one case is understood to be involved in a murder charge . |
| 21 | And , while nothing has been officially announced , change is understood to be being considered for Aldershot 's ‘ collocated ’ catering training schools . |
| 22 | An acre of grassland and 100 railway sleepers caught fire but now have been put out , however the rest of the building is understood to be on fire . |
| 23 | I think also that we should make clear that the nature of the Tests this year is understood to be less threatening etc. etc . |
| 24 | The Birmingham-based company is understood to be the first in Europe with its ‘ AutoDeal ’ service which offers investors a telephone dealing system enabling them to place a purchase or sale order in the new BT shares from the start of trading 24 hours a day seven days a week . |
| 25 | The Treasury is understood to be insisting that only eight of the threatened 31 pits remain open . |
| 26 | The manager was admitted to the 181-bed luxury hospital for the £12,000 operation on Monday and the cost is understood to be being met by Liverpool 's private health insurance . |
| 27 | The main problem is understood to be integrating the software and the microchip decoder apparatus in the receiver . |
| 28 | The main problem is understood to be the difficulty of avoiding the impression that the principal characters are based on the real Royal family . |
| 29 | Meanwhile the Prime Minister is understood to be arranging a series of meetings with the leaders of all the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | It was a struggle in which the heroic confessor of the faith was understood to be uniquely assisted by the Spirit of God , and more than one account tells of the ‘ victims ’ being granted visions to strengthen them . |