Example sentences of "are [verb] to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 2 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 3 | If these enhancements and/or modifications are recognized to be universally applicable , will carry out the necessary work and will bear the cost of this . |
| 4 | Thus there is generally a presumption that business agreements are intended to be legally binding , and the courts generally accept an element of imprecision in business agreements so that " the dealings of men may so far as possible be treated as effective and that the law may not incur the reproach of being the destroyer of bargains " ( per Lord Tomlin in Hillas v Arcos [ 1932 ] All ER Rep 494 , at p499 ) . |
| 5 | Abstracts are intended to be as concise as the nature of a particular topic being dealt with allows and not to be detailed rule-books dealing with every conceivable circumstance . ’ |
| 6 | They are designed to be less restrictive than full safety helmets and are known as ‘ bump caps ’ . |
| 7 | These areas are specifically set apart for retail outlets ( both large and small ) and are designed to be as convenient and pleasant as possible for both customer and retailers . |
| 8 | Finally , Lowestoft members are reminded to be particularly polite to Marlene McGee , as she has been appointed to the Lowestoft bench of the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 9 | Much of the literature on women and education tends to make this kind of distinction , arguing both for greater equality of access for girls and for changes in what are claimed to be inherently sexist curricula and values put over in school . |
| 10 | Child-safe paint : We have n't found any paints that are claimed to be totally lead-free , but the safe ‘ nursery paints ’ are within the strict British and European limits for the amount of lead permitted in child-safe paints . |
| 11 | Controlled term indexing languages are claimed to be more consistent and therefore more efficient , but the many tests on indexing languages have failed to prove this convincingly . |
| 12 | Durham are expected to be even stronger this time and competition for places will be fierce . |
| 13 | Client versions of Windows NT are expected to be generally available by June 30 , although Microsoft chairman Bill Gates tendered a conservative 60-day timescale for introduction at the launch . |
| 14 | Client versions of Windows NT are expected to be generally available by June 30 , although Microsoft chairman Bill Gates tendered a conservative 60 day timescale for introduction at the launch . |
| 15 | If this view is held then it makes sense to borrow funds now at low rates to obviate the need for borrowing later , when funds are expected to be more expensive . |
| 16 | A further advantage of the new index investment trust is that dealings in its shares are expected to be more liquid than in the individual shares of many smaller companies . |
| 17 | Trans-splicing introns are expected to be very resistant to intron-loss , because the correct replacement of genomic copies of trans-spliced genes can not be achieved by simple homologous recombination and should therefore be extremely rare . |
| 18 | As in discourses of class , deviant subjects are expected to be less abstract and rational thinkers , and more emotional , sexual , and biologically determined . |
| 19 | Human beings are expected to be as mechanical as the musak . |
| 20 | In ten years time , more than 600 million people are expected to be severely undernourished . |
| 21 | 1991 , 27 1006 ) , of course I approve of the purpose of the Control of Pesticide Regulations ( 1986 ) and COSHH regulations , but it is a ridiculous consequence of the regulations that chemists are deemed to be less well able than commercial fruit growers , for example , to understand that the chemicals involved ‘ have the capacity to be potentially lethal if wrongfully mixed , applied and handled ’ . |
| 22 | But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay . |
| 23 | It was then necessary to determine the ’ neighbourhood size ’ around each word , i.e. the limit beyond which words are deemed to be too far apart to be considered as neighbours . |
| 24 | Not every author who has something to say on the subject of post-war sexual morality is included in the following discussion of each of the five categories , but rather those who are considered to be most representative of each genre are discussed . |
| 25 | We do n't know upon what he 's basing what he 's saying , whether it 's on his own particular memories of school , whether it 's been informed by , department of education officials in England , or Scottish education officials up here , and I think any up , any where somebody , something as crucial teachi , any job , er , where somebody who 's uninformed is making pronouncements which are considered to be sufficiently important that they 're read out on th , on the six o'clock news and in the papers |
| 26 | Intrastrand crosslinks are considered to be relatively difficult to repair ( 2 ) and this may be the reason for their marked effectiveness of cisplatin against tumours of germ cell origin ( e.g. testicular and ovarian tumors ) . |
| 27 | The existing arrangements of asking for police assistance when the presence of weapons is suspected are considered to be quite adequate . |
| 28 | Letters are not themselves sounds : they represent the sounds of the spoken language , of which there are considered to be about 44 in standard English . |
| 29 | The ‘ taste and decency ’ clauses of the BBC and ITA charters are considered to be too weak by the moral tendency of the Conservative Party . |
| 30 | Hence character combinations that form words are considered to be more probable than character combinations which are not words . |