Example sentences of "are [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BTV particles are calculated to be composed of 60 copies of VP3 , 780 copies of VP7 , 120 copies of VP5 and 180 copies of VP2 . |
| 2 | By contrast , Message Queue Interface works in a time-independent fashion ; requests are queued to be sent to the remote machine and if anything goes wrong they are automatically remembered and re-tried without the application having to do any work at all . |
| 3 | If these enhancements and/or modifications are recognized to be universally applicable , will carry out the necessary work and will bear the cost of this . |
| 4 | The simplicity and flexibility of the notation of DC are recognized to be two of its strengths . |
| 5 | Such thoughts should help them to understand how attitudes , right or wrong , can persist unchanged for endless generations if they are taught to be dictated by unassailable imaginary ‘ gods ’ who are never ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 6 | Managers , he notes , are taught to be tough , which can mean they sometimes take a decision regardless of its ethical consequences . |
| 7 | Thom 's theoretical analysis was based on the work of S.R. Broadbent , a statistician whose quantum hypothesis allows the extent to which data are quantised to be assessed objectively . |
| 8 | At the same time that this mischief is done , the wood itself is ( timber excepted ) but of a miserable account , as any one may suppose , when he is informed , that these shaws have a fence only on one side , and consequently are exposed to be eaten by the cattle that graze in the fields ; hence there is an imperfect system of wood , an injured one of corn , and wretched fences ; by aiming at too much , nothing arrives at perfection . |
| 9 | These recipes are intended to be unadulterated bliss . |
| 10 | The poems are intended to be read aloud as in the late middle ages , a period to which Darras is keenly attracted because national and linguistic boundaries had not yet hardened . |
| 11 | Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) . |
| 12 | It also includes the ‘ Noticeboard ’ sheets ( Figure 5.5 ) which are intended to be pinned to bureaux noticeboards in order to alert workers to items of topical interest and impending changes . |
| 13 | To this end , Tang reports that some 13.8 million ha of Malaysia 's forests have been designated as permanent forest estate ( PFE ) , of which 9.1 × 10 6 ha are productive forests that are intended to be managed on a sustained yield basis ( see section 8.2.1 for a definition ) . |
| 14 | The reason for this , however , is that almost all the references are found in what are intended to be exhaustive lists of ways of acquiring property : heretics , for instance , are debarred from acquiring under any title including legacy and trust ; curial property received in any way ( including legacy and trust ) is taxable . |
| 15 | Covering countryside such as the Chilterns and the South Downs , they are intended to be areas of special planning control with strong accent on the visual and environmental effects of any development . |
| 16 | None of the preceding remarks are intended to be seen as advocating either wet-nursing or surrogacy . |
| 17 | The Community makes laws which are intended to be binding upon and within member states . |
| 18 | Both brushes and foam can also take on a partial biofiltering role , but if they are intended to be a mechanical filter , they should be cleaned before they clog . |
| 19 | Abstracts are intended to be as concise as the nature of a particular topic being dealt with allows and not to be detailed rule-books dealing with every conceivable circumstance . ’ |
| 20 | This cost should be off-set by the savings , estimated at £450m in the years to 1996 ( it should be remembered that the current single market arrangements are intended to be replaced by a tax system based purely on the country of origin , to be introduced in 1997 , subject to the unanimous agreement of EC member states ) . |
| 21 | Exceptions would be undertakings whose business is similar to the group 's , are intended to be retained as long-term investments , and in which 3i has both active general management involvement and more than 20% of the equity . |
| 22 | Practice Notes are intended to be persuasive , rather than prescriptive , and have a lower level of authority than Statements of Auditing Standards . |
| 23 | Oral examinations are intended to be a cross examination of the severest kind and your debtor will be required to bring his books , papers and documents into court with him . |
| 24 | Modern computer programs , especially those in AI , are written , and are intended to be thought of , as interconnecting sub-parts or modules , and not at all as seamless wholes . |
| 25 | Moreover , such tests are a detriment to good education since teachers spend an inordinate amount of class time preparing students for them , particularly if the results are intended to be used to hold teachers and schools accountable for their performance . |
| 26 | The resolutions , which have recently been published , call for a more just media environment in the Philippines in particular , but are intended to be used worldwide . |
| 27 | This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade . |
| 28 | These ‘ developmental sequences ’ are intended to be hierarchical : ‘ each sequence of steps in different domains of development progresses towards and overlaps with National Curriculum Attainment Targets ’ ( Webster and Webster 1990 : 9 ) . |
| 29 | The committees and working groups are certainly participative , and are intended to be arenas for wide input from a variety of sources . |
| 30 | In all these cases the court has been concerned to ensure that these fundamental requirements are met in the way in which , particularly in the case of the county courts , they are intended to be and should be met . |