Example sentences of "[noun prp] be understood to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Laming is understood to be keen to start detailed monitoring . |
| 2 | The Bank of England is understood to be keeping a watch as discussions continue between Eurotunnel and its four agent banks , which include the Midland and National Westminster . |
| 3 | In a pre-election press conference on Dec. 24 , President Chadli Benjedid was understood to be referring to the FIS when he criticized those " who adopt violence as a method of political conduct " . |
| 4 | Italian giants Inter Milan are understood to be watching the situation closely , with Pearce hoping Clough changes his mind and puts him more in line with the kind of wages being picked up by some of his England team-mates . |
| 5 | ITV is understood to be concerned about what it sees as a weakening of its expensive agreement by individual clubs . |
| 6 | Bell Atlantic is understood to be working on an implementation of Multiflow 's ingenious Trace Scheduling Compilers for 64-bit Sparc architectures . |
| 7 | Hewlett-Packard is understood to be contributing parts of its DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility and IBM parts of its SOM to the object core layer . |
| 8 | Mr Bailey has been very much a front of house man at Hatchards and well known to many of the bookshop 's most distinguished customers , but Dillons is understood to be reorganising the store 's management structure under its new general manager , Roger Katz , and , with the recent appointment of Duncan Goldie-Scot , looks to be putting greater emphasis on direct marketing . |
| 9 | For details of the secret itinerary for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain are understood to be in the hands of the IRA . |
| 10 | The rest of the evidence against Mr Ryan is understood to be mainly circumstantial . |
| 11 | FORMER Middlesbrough boss Bruce Rioch is understood to be on a shortlist of six for the manager 's job at Darlington . |
| 12 | The big surf companies have caught on to such a trend towards the plain and dark : Quicksilver is understood to be behind the Pirate Surf label , and Gotcha runs a second , more cultish label called More Core Division . |
| 13 | Mr Major is understood to be prepared to co-operate with a visit , but only under conditions which ensure diplomatic neutrality on the issue . |
| 14 | Central and Fife are understood to be less enthusiastic but agreed to support the idea . |