Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States is considered to have entered this phase sometime in the 1950s ; in Britain 's case the date is less clear — either in the mid-1960s or in the 1980s depending upon which aspects of service growth are emphasized . |
| 2 | One of them Hugh of Chauvigny , is reported to have hated all Englishmen . |
| 3 | Ventris died before he had had the time to turn his attentions to Linear A , about which he is reported to have had some initial ideas . |
| 4 | The company is reported to have hired former mercenaries from Rhodesia , Central America and the Middle East who are equipped with assault rifles or shotguns , gasmasks , tear-gas munitions , counter-sniper equipment , intrusion detection devices , armoured vehicles , and K-9 teams . |
| 5 | Violence between Muslims and Hindus in India is reported to have claimed some 300 lives in the past few months . |
| 6 | Carbonate deposition on the Great Bahama Bank is said to have averaged half a metre per thousand years , even though most of the sediment is continuously swept into deeper water . |
| 7 | A second factor , the growth of the media , is said to have made both sides wary of possible bad publicity resulting from violence . |
| 8 | The technology is regarded as regressive by Taligent staff , and IBM 's insistence is said to have convinced several key employees to quit . |
| 9 | Yes Chairman I 'd like to second that and just to erm say very briefly that er erm I , I very much welcome the report and the speed with which the Chief Officer is seen to have addressed most of the issues there are one or two bits that , that were of course were in fact posters , posters er be dealt with erm I have to say I still have some concern erm that the Chief Fire Officer and his team are so well supported on a very broad front on their decision making and their professionalism and yet on other matters of sound advice which has been given by er who are turned aside and just simply not given the proper consideration that they should have as in that er respect Chairman and I , I , I have some concern , erm it , it would not surprise me indeed if the , Her Majesty 's Inspector of er er brigades , when he comes round himself , has some comment to make on that since I think he 's expectations as well are almost as high as mine is . |
| 10 | DEATH can do wonders for record sales — Freddie Mercury 's departure alone is reckoned to have put several percentage points on total British sales last Christmas . |
| 11 | Twenty-five-year-old Frank James is alleged to have stabbed another man at a house in Hermitage Street on Saturday . |
| 12 | SeaCo itself may come back with a slightly better offer as the sale of assets agreed so far is thought to have raised more money than was planned . |
| 13 | A group of experts commissioned by the finance ministry is thought to have recommended much self-regulation , as in London . |
| 14 | The fear of being deemed to be trading ( rather than investing ) in futures contracts , and so liable to taxation is thought to have deterred such institutions from using them as part of their investment strategy . |
| 15 | After all , when he starred as champion boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , he put on 60lbs and is reputed to have done enough training to have earned a place in the top twenty world middleweight rankings . |
| 16 | Will the chairman of the Tory party send that money back to its rightful owners , bearing in mind the fact that the Labour party has agreed to send back Maxwell 's money , if it is found to have had any connection with the Mirror group pension fund ? |
| 17 | On the one hand the theologians of the fifth century were also experts in rhetoric , even if the style they chose as being appropriate to their religious works was different from that used by Sidonius in his letters and poems ; on the other , Sidonius is known to have composed some ecclesiastical works including an epitaph for the ascetic Abraham , poems for various churches , as well as a version of the Mass which appears not to have survived . |
| 18 | Finally there was Mr Skipton 's wife ( mentioned above ) who talked at length about the strain of looking after her husband but is known to have refused most offers of help . |
| 19 | In 1905 she was appointed a member of the royal commission on the poor laws , where she defended the role of organized private charity against the bureaucratic socialism of Mrs Beatrice Webb [ q.v. ] ; she is believed to have drafted many sections of the majority report . |
| 20 | Even if the Soviet Union is no longer able to give orders , it still has great influence , and Mr Shevardnadze is believed to have used this in calls to Prague , Warsaw and East Berlin . |
| 21 | Unofficially , the Bank is believed to have sold much more . |
| 22 | The aim of the research is to develop a powerful new estimation method which takes account of the exact mathematical relationship between the behaviour of the discrete data and the underlying continuous time model that is assumed to have generated that data . |
| 23 | An individual , for example , is required to have exhausted all local remedies . |
| 24 | But Gareth Llewellyn , as front jumper , is held to have answered many of his detractors . |