Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saints fans have been honoured to have seen the likes of Tom Van Vollenhoven and Mal Meninga . |
| 2 | Every professional body that had been consulted has rejected the programme and the proposals attaching to it . |
| 3 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 4 | Bloomsbury was five years old in 1991 , and might have been expected to have outgrown the cash-hungry habits of the start-up . |
| 5 | More units might have been expected to have explored the extra income potential of specialised products . |
| 6 | THE political opinion pollsters , along with Neil Kinnock , are deemed to have lost the election . |
| 7 | All entrants to the competition are deemed to have accepted the rules and agreed to be bound by them . |
| 8 | All entrants to the competition are deemed to have accepted the rules and agreed to be bound by them . |
| 9 | Licentiate by experience are deemed to have satisfied the requirements of the Professional Certificate and are eligible to enrol on the Diploma Programme . |
| 10 | Some drivers are reported to have taken the law into their own hands by illegally carrying weapons to defend themselves . |
| 11 | Hundreds of thousands of people are reported to have fled the area . |
| 12 | The problem is blamed on the land users themselves , who are seen to have mismanaged the environment because of lack of environmental awareness , ignorance , apathy and just plain laziness . |
| 13 | Further , larger authorities are felt to have increased the influence of officials and — very important from a Conservative viewpoint — this influence has not helped to reduce expenditure . |
| 14 | About 500,000 Sri Lankans , out of a population of 17m , are reckoned to have left the country because of the war . |
| 15 | Language experts are said to have challenged the conclusions of four top scientists — reported in my Daily Mirror column — that a key confession was false . |
| 16 | Its three stars and two stripes are said to have influenced the design for the American flag . |
| 17 | The peasants are said to have cut the outline of the giant in the chalk around his dead body . |
| 18 | The gunmen are said to have mistaken the cardinal 's car for that of a rival drug cartel . |
| 19 | He has denounced the internment camps in which villagers are put who are said to have aided the ‘ terrorists ’ . |
| 20 | And new claims over the extent of that support are said to have made the president-elect furious . |
| 21 | Two electronics enthusiasts with a radio scanner are said to have made the recordings on New Year 's Eve 1989 , when Princess Di was at Sandringham . |
| 22 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 23 | Organizations which have a market orientation are said to have adopted the ‘ marketing concept ’ . |
| 24 | It may be a measure of the state of the property market these days when offices are said to have shown the greatest improvement in May with capital growth ‘ improving ’ to minus 6.4 per cent , combining with stable yields and rental values to give a total return for the year to date of 1.5 per cent , according to the latest Richard Ellis Scottish Monthly Index . |
| 25 | An awareness of the way in which the reasons for erosion are connected has implied the necessity for inter-disciplinary study . |
| 26 | Many diverse factors have been shown to have influenced the decision makers , amongst which public pacifism was of minor importance . |
| 27 | Historians have , however , been shown to have underestimated the role in this respect of the country banks . |
| 28 | This postponement of examination until completion has become normal practice and the use of epitomes of title when photocopies are supplied has reduced the procedure , in most cases , to a matter of minutes . |
| 29 | Joyce scholars were also disappointed that the archive does not contain any of the erotic letters reputedly written in 1909 by his wife , Nora , which are thought to have inspired the character Molly Bloom in Ulysses , his most famous novel . |
| 30 | By contrast the present cases arise because Home Office ministers are thought to have increased the periods recommended by the judiciary , in a process of consultation which is extra-statutory . |