Example sentences of "[noun] is [verb] to be [adv] " 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 | Budget maximization is held to be both rational and necessary for survival . |
| 3 | The emaciated guitarist balances precariously on legs thinner than a pair of whittled Swan Vestas , which is fine , because a painfully thin member is essential if the glam card is going to be successfully played . |
| 4 | Incidentally , though Walker is held to be still more than a touch rusty after so long away from rugby — inclined , for instance , to carry the ball under the wrong arm — the rapidity with which he has come into cap contention ought to be food for thought for our own Jamie Henderson . |
| 5 | Quality consciousness is said to be very high among Japanese workers who endeavour to eliminate components that are rejected as substandard . |
| 6 | You begin to enjoy the way people can say ‘ The National Health Service is safe in our hands ’ or ‘ Nobody deplores apartheid more than we do ’ or even ‘ We do not have a shoot-to-kill policy ’ and you know that another hospital is going to close and that there will be another stitch-up with Pretoria and that another shooting is going to be quietly forgotten . |
| 7 | The total represents a three-fold increase on the previous decade , but the real death toll is thought to be far higher . |
| 8 | The buying is said to be largely from America , where investors are beginning to take a more optimistic view of their economy while showing concern about renewed Middle East tension . |
| 9 | With Frigi-Thalgo , inch loss is said to be almost permanent after six or more sessions — dieting and exercise included — and noticable loss is possible within a £35 one-hour session , with the effect lasting 48 hours . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole of the overseas side is going to be very important , particularly America . |
| 11 | He has worked very hard and the result is bound to be very close . ’ |
| 12 | Because the County Council realize now that they 're a little bit in advance of everybody and because the District Council feel that they can get designation by supporting this and not voting against it , the chances are that Wheatley is going to be totally deprived of a public enquiry , which practically every other site is guaranteed . |
| 13 | and er it must be borne in upon them that the alternative for us are not having money to keep up our roads programme is going to be very dangerous therefore I think there is no question that the recent test programme is the second priority for concern . |
| 14 | The programme is thought to be less successful in Zimbabwe , since the denser vegetation means that poachers may not be able to see that the animal has no horn until they have already shot it . |
| 15 | Through careful negotiation with the client it is important that each stage on the programme is designed to be only approximately ten units of anxiety or difficulty greater than the previous stage . |
| 16 | Persistent aggression is a deviation not only from social convention , but from the way people ‘ naturally ’ are , since the mind is thought to be properly in control of the soul ( cf. |
| 17 | Ophiohelus is considered to be closely allied to these three genera . |
| 18 | I think anything I do in the future is going to be purely from home consumption or from places |
| 19 | ‘ We know the future is going to be very difficult . |
| 20 | In this particular drawing the forecaster has assumed that the future is going to be almost the same as the present ( at least in the characteristics he is depicting ) . |
| 21 | A touring boat is designed to be directionally stable . |
| 22 | Appraisal is seen to be principally the activity of applied linguistics ( or that branch of it that concerns itself with language teaching ) and application ( as defined here ) the principal activity of language teaching . |
| 23 | Before we plunge into that debate we ought to recognize that recruitment to elite positions in the public and private sectors is said to be highly meritocratic . |
| 24 | This landlocked location is n't the first place you 'd think of for a diving school but the Diver Training College is proving to be very popular . |
| 25 | It is widely believed that the United Kingdom has a rising crime wave , and crime is thought to be more widespread in the United Kingdom than in other western countries . |
| 26 | This effect is estimated to be only 17% in Model 3 . |
| 27 | But there it is , and outside and foreign firms will put money in , especially if subsidized by temporary government measures , for as you know , public investment in private industry is judged to be ideologically correct , while public investment for public and community concerns is judged ideologically to be harmful , but the firms are interested in making money out of the region if I may so put it , not in sustaining world promotion and healthy living in the region . |
| 28 | Energy use in industry is thought to be around 50 per cent less efficient than in the West . |
| 29 | Yet another complicating factor is that the account given of the generic team 's work with elderly clients is bound to be only a partial exemplification of whatever advantages may be claimed for the generic model , whether of professional practice or of staff development . |
| 30 | Indeed , the idea that women might take control of their desire to the point where men come to be judged as objects of pleasure is felt to be so threatening as to be tabooed . |