Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again Dr Borlase is considered to have erred on the side of romance and the Cornish term for mid-summer , ‘ golowan ’ , is now believed to be derived from ‘ gol Jowan ’ , the feast of John . |
| 2 | The Carrier shall not in any circumstances be liable for loss of or damage to goods after transit of such goods is deemed to have ended within the meaning of Condition 6(2) hereof , whether or not caused or contributed to directly or indirectly by any act , omission , neglect , default or other wrongdoing on the part of the Carrier . |
| 3 | By the year 2010 it is expect to have doubled from the 1960 level . |
| 4 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 5 | A civilian gunman is reported to have gone on the rampage at the base in Kentucky which houses the nation 's gold repository . |
| 6 | The Turkish Prime Minister is reported to have commented on the deaths by saying : ‘ Those killed were not real journalists . |
| 7 | ( This is reported to have occurred among the people of Niue Island in the South Pacific , and in Sierre Leone . ) |
| 8 | Stalin is reported to have remarked at the end of the war that to establish communist rule in Poland would be like ‘ trying to saddle a cow ’ and Soviet relations with that country ( the largest and most populous in Eastern Europe ) have borne out these apprehensions . |
| 9 | This is expected to have doubled by the end of 1990 . |
| 10 | Flight International reported six incidents in which electromagnetic interference from on-board equipment is suspected to have interfered with the flight computers : |
| 11 | Rebuilt in the mid-18th Century , it stands on the site of an earlier house in which Charles I is said to have stayed before the Battle of Edgehill . |
| 12 | Among the passengers was Mr. W. H. Troake , former Stores Superintendent of Croydon Corporation Tramways , who is said to have ridden on the first electric car in Croydon . |
| 13 | Rich merchants from Spain had traded there , and the young Christopher Columbus is said to have worshipped in the Church of St Nicholas . |
| 14 | The man is said to have gone into the post office , brandishing what appeared to be a handgun , then fled empty-handed when the female assistant ran into the rear of the premises . |
| 15 | The man is said to have gone into the post office , brandishing what appeared to be a handgun , then fled empty-handed when the female assistant fled into the rear of the premises . |
| 16 | Infiltration by Special Branch officers posing as miners is said to have occurred during the coal dispute ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:145 ) . |
| 17 | The Emperor Charlemagne ( 768–814 ) is said to have lamented to the leader of his court school , the York man Alcuin , that he had not twelve learned men like Jerome or Augustine . |
| 18 | Commercial milling is said to have ceased with the Second World War . |
| 19 | Rolle is said to have fled to the nearby village of Pickering , where the squire John de Dalton was impressed by the strangely-clad hermit and agreed to support him and give him an anchorage to live in . |
| 20 | The name Mappleton is said to have evolved from the Saxon ‘ Moe pel tun ’ , the farmstead by the maple tree . |
| 21 | He was first jailed and then compelled to leave Rome ; he is said to have died in the Punic city of Utica , a remarkable place to go for a disgraced Roman intellectual ( St Jerome , Chron. a. 1816 , p. 135 Helm ) . |
| 22 | His interest in polio is said to have originated during the polio epidemic in New York City in 1931 . |
| 23 | The assault is alleged to have occurred at the Paradox night club in Aintree . |
| 24 | The assault is alleged to have occurred at the Paradox night club in Aintree . |
| 25 | Livingston is also reported to have recruited a Norweigan dietary expert at a cost of £6,000 to provide evidence of his innocence but the expert is alleged to have disappeared with the money . |
| 26 | The incident is alleged to have happened at the pensioner 's home in Crewe early yesterday morning . |
| 27 | The ambulance was on its way to another accident about a mile away , where a woman driver 's thought to have skidded off the road in heavy rain . |
| 28 | COSMIC structure is thought to have arisen by the gravitational amplification of small density fluctuations in the early Universe . |
| 29 | In mid Ordovician times a volcanic island arc is thought to have extended through the English Lake District , Wales and Newfoundland . |
| 30 | Ms Stark , 36 , is thought to have stepped into the street while photographing the actress Ruthie Henshall outside the Prince Edward Theatre and been struck by a taxi . |