Example sentences of "[pers pn] is understand that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now it is understood that annual sales have slipped to only about $30m — and accumulated losses at the subsidiary are put at as much as $10m . |
| 2 | It is understood that certain regions , like Highland , Fife , Borders , and Dumfries & Galloway may survive the shake-up , while some districts , notably Eastwood in the constituency of local government minister Allan Stewart , could also become unitary councils responsible for most of the main council services . |
| 3 | It is understood that British Petroleum chairman , Sir Peter Walters has been shortlisted to take over the job . |
| 4 | Despite these remarks , it will be preferable to use a more compact notation , so , provided that it is understood that single nouns cover an intensional structure like that above ( and this will matter in later chapters ) we shall feel free to show them as simple occurrences of E , thus retaining as our notation for the pattern of any of the following : ( 14 ) green bottles hungry marchers chocolate cake 1.5 It is inappropriate and indeed impossible to characterize the semantic , and purely linguistic , value of qualification in extensional or referential terms . |
| 5 | It is understood that unarmed policemen accompanied the returning Vietnamese , and that two very senior government officials were on the plane when it landed in the Vietnamese capital , Hanoi . |