Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One forgot in the early enthusiasm that the rotors had never been intended to be a ship 's prime movers , too much was expected of them . |
| 2 | Those that have seemed to indicate that ESP might be at work have generally later been discredited : either the subject of the experiment has been proven to be a charlatan or the experimental procedure itself has been shown to be flawed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Digital Equipment Corp yesterday unveiled the DECpc MTE line of two 80486-based personal computers , starting at $2,650 and $3,100 : they include a 32-bit EISA bus and VESA VL bus and are claimed to be the highest-performance 80486 machines available ; they are Pentium-upgradable and offers a PCMCIA peripheral card option for data sharing with portable computers having PCMCIA . |
| 6 | If there are expected to be a number of queries of the type ‘ How many lecturers are over 40 years of age ? ’ , the database administrator may well consider using date-of-birth as a key for inclusion in the index . |
| 7 | NI benefits are expected to be a target for cost cutting but the review is expected to be very wide ranging . |
| 8 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 9 | The mainframe business and the chip business are expected to be the focus of the cuts , with further plant closures and property disposals thought likely . |
| 10 | Main users of AlphaWindows terminals are expected to be the mid-ranking clerical and administration staff of organisations who have several tasks they need to perform using different applications . |
| 11 | Such has been reported to be the case by some authors ( Subirana , 1969 ; Luria , 1970 ) but not by others ( Russell and Espir , 1961 ; Newcombe and Ratcliff , 1973 ) . |
| 12 | In general this owl has been considered to be a woodland species preying on woodland rodents and birds ( Southern , 1954 ) . |
| 13 | Accordingly , laminin has been considered to be a marker of fibrogenesis . |
| 14 | It has been considered to be a pool car . |
| 15 | Such increases in tannin in browsed Acacia nigrescens in southern Africa have been reported to take place in a few minutes and the production of ethylene during damage has been considered to be the promoter of tannin increase . |
| 16 | Successive summonses bear the same number and date as the original and are deemed to be a continuance of the original fixed date summons ( Ord 7 , r 19(3) ) . |
| 17 | It is a feature of modernity that our elder citizens are considered to be a nuisance to be dealt with as quietly and unobtrusively as possible . |
| 18 | Apart from immunisation of young children , pregnant women are considered to be a priority group because certain infectious diseases can cause serious damage to the developing fetus . |
| 19 | Food premises will have to be registered so that they may be inspected and action taken if they are considered to be a health risk . |
| 20 | Will 's best movements are considered to be the passage and canter pirouette , and his worst to be flying changes . |
| 21 | Royal women , too , even though quite ordinary in appearance , may be elevated in public opinion until they are considered to be the utmost in charm and elegance — again difficult to live up to , when they are continually ‘ on show ’ . |
| 22 | These are the barn owl , long-eared owl , and all the Eagle owls , and these deficits are considered to be the result of sampling error . |
| 23 | Improved communications are considered to be an asset both to traditional local industries such as oil , fish and drink and important for new investment . |
| 24 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |
| 25 | That source-study has been so common is at least partly due to the fact that the interpretation of the writings of the mystics has , from the start , been felt to be the preserve of theologians . |
| 26 | More generally , however , this tort has been said to be the genus of which the other unlawful means torts ( intimidation and interference with contract and conspiracy where unlawful means are involved ) are species . |
| 27 | The social cost of these processes , added to by government policies , has been said to be the end of ‘ consensus politics ’ and a turning away from the notion that the social hierarchy can be perceived to be legitimate . |
| 28 | And finally , a lack of interest in and control over their children on the part of parents has been argued to be a vulnerability factor for these children in adult depression ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 29 | Evenings in the Jones household are said to be a nightmare . |
| 30 | Such mobility may carry the stigma of personal failure or a defective personality that are said to be the result of ‘ soiling one 's curriculum vitae' ( Nakane 1973 p.111 ) . |