Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rape is only held to have been committed in English law where the sexual intercourse is ‘ unlawful ’ , and it is generally assumed that the function of that term is to remove non-consensual intercourse between a man and his wife from the ambit of rape . |
| 2 | This is generally thought to have been done deliberately , to improve drainage in the days before clay and now plastic field drains . |
| 3 | In England the chapel was fully manned in the time of Edward the Confessor ( though the title ‘ chancellor ’ is generally thought to have been instituted by the Normans ) . |
| 4 | The court 's ruling in favour of the Commission created a legal vacuum which Brussels is not seeking to fill be re-tabling its proposals . |
| 5 | Somebody 's actually got to do the appointing if you have the , the er er er i i independent members and I do n't think it 's u is unreasonable for my Right Honourable Friend to say that the Home Secretary should do that er provided that he is not seen to have been taking an overtly political view . |
| 6 | It 's thought the body is that of a man , but it 's not believed to have been mutilated in any way . |
| 7 | D , which now forms part of British Library ( BL ) MS Cotton Tiberius B iv , and is usually thought to have been produced in either Worcester or York , may date from little if at all before 1100 . |
| 8 | For example , a company which has given a preference to a person connected with the company is rebuttably presumed to have been influenced by a desire to prefer that person . |
| 9 | Part of a coffee grinder is also understood to have been found in the house along with newspapers dating back to the beginning of May . |
| 10 | The RSC is working with the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) and the Department of Employment to develop the Indicative register of analytical chemists into a NVQ at level V. The RSC is also contributing to work being undertaken by employer organisations to develop other NVQs , mainly at levels I to III . |
| 11 | SBus performance is also claimed to have been increased 25% . |
| 12 | The squad is also reported to have been ordered to take a 10 per cent wage cut to cover falling gates . |
| 13 | However , he is now said to have been becalmed by his current companion , Miss Nina Huang Peterson who has nicknamed him ‘ Thumper after the character in Bambi ’ . |
| 14 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 15 | It 's well proven having been shipped since nineteen eighty seven but provides new advanced technology with the new System Ten release . |
| 16 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 17 | The dynastic change from Tudors to Stuarts in 1603 is sometimes said to have been accompanied by a shift from optimism to gloom , and Bacon certainly took an unusually sober approach . |
| 18 | It currently has a service within the Fire Service wh which costs a certain amount and we ca n't presume and I would , I suspect that Councillor is is actually trying to do is to get in by the back door for cut that we will then be forced to make the March March March Committee well I hope that members of this at this this this Committee would reject that er suggestion as it at the last meeting . |
| 19 | Modern science , which is commonly held to have been given its philosophical base by Descartes , has nearly always presupposed precisely this kind of dualistic contrast between objective matter and introspective mind . |