Example sentences of "is [verb] [that] these [be] " in BNC.

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1 Meantime , there was a lot happening just down the street to capture his attention , as troop after troop of soldiers passed through Frome on their way somewhere else : 300 of the Staffordshire Militia came in April of 1799 , replaced by an equal number of the same later in the month ; then the 300-strong Somerset Supplementary Militia arrived from Wells , complete with their own band , followed by the glorious Fifteenth Light Dragoons — ‘ It is supposed that these are the finest men and horses of any regiment in England ’ ; and the next year no fewer than nine hundred men of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons came at one go .
2 There were times — notably in the immediate postwar years and during the early 1970s — when it seemed that the gap between the two halves of the country was beginning to narrow ( Damesick and Wood , 1987 ) , but with the benefit of hindsight it is seen that these were periods when special factors were operating ( McCrone , 1969 ; Massey , 1979 ) .
3 Specialist skills , apart from technology/computerization , did not figure very highly or very uniformly in responses , perhaps because it is felt that these are widely catered for already .
4 It is argued that these are debts owed to the community and as such should be accorded a preference .
5 It is recognised that these are important aspects of the learning and teaching approaches for the modules and it is recommended that they are used for formative assessment .
6 the long-standing problem with the Mercury cables under the ballast seem to be resolved and it is understood that these are being moved now and the route could be clear within days .
7 Supplies of red stones were already available in the form of garnets , and it is known that these were much used by Hellenistic and Roman jewellers .
8 It is assumed that these are linked not to profit maximisation , but depend on the size of the enterprise .
9 That is to say that these are the absolute minimum basic pieces of equipment needed to start out .
10 Any variations from the target sentence are counted as errors , and it is suggested that these are recorded so that they can be analysed prior to intervention .
11 It is suggested that these are not merely speculative lines of enquiry but can be developed from within the current body of legal materials .
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