Example sentences of "they are [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bodies were washed up on a beach about four miles from where they are presumed to have been murdered . ’ |
| 2 | They are assumed to have been quarried there , in situ , and not removed from the glacial Drift . |
| 3 | What they are trying to do is to arrive at insights which are generally true of all humanity ( including the anthropologists themselves ) by observing very small-scale examples of human life . |
| 4 | Gazelles are not trying to eat cheetahs , they are trying to avoid being eaten by cheetahs . |
| 5 | They are believed to have been caught in a storm without enough food or water . |
| 6 | If taken over an extended period , however , patients may start to prove these remedies but fail to realize that new symptoms which they are beginning to experience are linked to the remedy which they are taking . |
| 7 | The terms in which they are described have been adapted to make them more accessible to the Western reader . |
| 8 | They are thought to have been attached to wooden figures to carry a dead king 's crown in ceremonies expressing the continuity of royal office . |
| 9 | They are thought to have been bought locally by two men with Liverpool-sounding accents at the time the couple disappeared . |
| 10 | They are thought to have been bought locally by two men with Liverpool-sounding accents at the time the couple disappeared . |
| 11 | They are thought to have been bought in the area of Coppull , near Chorley , where the couple met their deaths after being lured from their flat in Jericho Farm Walk , Aigburth , Liverpool , on April 27 . |