Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both derive from a deep sense of grievance and resentment against those Western powers led by the United States which are seen to have carved up the world for their own convenience . |
| 2 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 3 | They were further charged with stealing a motor-cycle combination on which they are said to have carried away the safe . |
| 4 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 5 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 6 | In large multicellular organisms , diffusion would be too slow , and a system of tubes along which fluid can be pumped has evolved independently a number of times . |
| 7 | The cash will be used to help set up a family action centre on the estate and give young people the opportunity to improve their future . |
| 8 | I 'm trying to establish put down a figure of forty six thousand for migration . |
| 9 | Perhaps he was trying to butter up America and Britain , because the United Nations Security Council will soon be discussing tighter sanctions against Libya unless he hands over the people who are believed to have blown up an American airliner over Scotland in 1988 . |
| 10 | Order 29 , r 1(3) provides that if the order was injunctive , it should have been served having borne thereon a " penal notice " — see below . |
| 11 | At several sites , protesting miners were reported to have gone down the pits and stayed there following the announcement . |
| 12 | Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 . |
| 13 | Police in Colombia were reported to have broken up a march of several thousand Indians , 21 of whom were injured , near the southern town of Popyan . |
| 14 | In July FIS militants were reported to have burned down a divorced woman 's house " to purge her sins ' , resulting in the death of her three-year-old son . |
| 15 | Office supplier Nobo Group enjoyed a 15 point jump to 92p , compliments of James Capel , who were reported to have put out a ‘ buy ’ recommendation . |
| 16 | In the first attack of its type in the 11-year civil war , the FMLN were said to have shot down an A-37 jet aircraft on Nov. 23 with a Sam-7 or Sam-14 ground-to-air missile . |
| 17 | The talks were seen to have opened up the possibility of a June meeting between the UNRG , political parties , church groups , employers and popular movements as a preliminary to possible direct talks between the government , the armed forces and the guerrillas . |
| 18 | ‘ You know very well that a lady can not accept pecuniary assistance from a gentleman without being thought to have taken up a carte blanche . ’ |
| 19 | The largest landslide of all in the Alps , that of Flims in Switzerland , is calculated to have brought down a mass of three cubic miles of material . |
| 20 | Just as the 1972 Conference on the Environment and Development in Stockholm is said to have ushered in a new era of international cooperation ( at the very least , it led to the creation of the United National Environment Programme ) , so its 1992 successor could just provide all world leaders with some kind of working map for the future . |
| 21 | POSH gifts group Aspreys is thought to have lined up a late Christmas present for itself . |
| 22 | Yields of Texas ' 36MHz SuperSparc implementation , due to feature in the Model 30 , have n't been as high or as good as yields on a 33MHz part , so Sun , under pressure to get Sparc 10 systems out of the door , is thought to have put together the Model 20 to take advantage of this opportunity . |
| 23 | In this brutal war , it is estimated that some 60,000 civilians were killed up to 1989 , before the 1989 to 1990 round of fighting which is thought to have claimed over a thousand lives . |
| 24 | Working against time , David Whitaker is believed to have put together the first of his two fifty page scripts in one afternoon taking the opportunity to introduce viewers further to the characters of the Doctor , Ian , Barbara and Susan , and to make more known about the TARDIS space/time ship . |
| 25 | As we have made clear in answer to issue ( 4 ) , the undue influence is required to have brought about the transaction , and it would be inconsistent with the equitable nature of the relief for the bank not to be affected by the undue influence exerted by its agent when the transaction would not exist but for the wrongful acts of its agent . |
| 26 | During negotiations between Syria and Israel the head of the Syrian delegation , Muwaffaq al-Allaf , was reported to have raised immediately the issue of UN Resolution 242 , stating that Israel continued to distort the interpretation of the resolution by claiming that it did not demand a withdrawal from the occupied territories . |
| 27 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 28 | The federal public prosecutor 's office began an investigation into the right-wing Nationalist Front , based in Detmold ( western Germany ) , and the Ku Klux Klan , which was thought to have set up a chapter in North Rhine-Westphalia . |
| 29 | THE house where ex-Goon Peter Sellers was born has taken on a new lease of life as a Chinese restaurant . |
| 30 | The Irish defender was furious when he was judged to have given away a late penalty for tripping Andy Sinton . |