Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] to be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Within each layer , the components of the canopy are considered to be randomly distributed and homogeneously mixed . ’
2 The remainder are bound to be increasingly affected by the absence from the shelves of a considerable number of titles .
3 The costs of its route are claimed to be about £2.5bn .
4 I 'm sure the England side are going to be just as tough though , are n't they ?
5 Staff who witnessed the murder are said to be very distressed .
6 Can the car be allowed to be just a car , no longer a symbol of defence against possible demands , feelings about a prettier younger sister or a manipulating mother ?
7 It was widely felt , while the Bill was passing into law , that the programmes of study were going to be inflexibly prescriptive .
8 Those lucky teachers who came under Basil 's guidance were helped to be more creative themselves and to bring out creativity in their children with the amazing results which we saw in the West Riding schools .
9 Although a comprehensive study by Shaw ( 1969 ) has shown that increased boldness of print increases legibility for some readers , differences in typography were found to be considerably less significant for younger than for older readers with partial sight .
10 ABS describes his fears as " irrational " but Nuclear Electric is understood to be seriously concerned at the implications .
11 Budget maximization is held to be both rational and necessary for survival .
12 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 .
13 Quality consciousness is said to be very high among Japanese workers who endeavour to eliminate components that are rejected as substandard .
14 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 .
15 The total represents a three-fold increase on the previous decade , but the real death toll is thought to be far higher .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 ‘ The whole of the overseas side is going to be very important , particularly America .
19 He has worked very hard and the result is bound to be very close . ’
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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.
24 Ophiohelus is considered to be closely allied to these three genera .
25 I think anything I do in the future is going to be purely from home consumption or from places
26 ‘ We know the future is going to be very difficult .
27 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 ) .
28 A touring boat is designed to be directionally stable .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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