Example sentences of "are [verb] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around one hundred galleries are expected to have signed up by the closing date and attendance figures are expected to be around the usual 100,000 . |
| 2 | The sheets are reported to have turned up inside a frame offered for sale in a provincial Sunday flea market outside Paris . |
| 3 | Both derive from a deep sense of grievance and resentment against those Western powers led by the United States which are seen to have carved up the world for their own convenience . |
| 4 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 5 | The trio are said to have run off after punching the glass-framed painting , House and the Vessel by Canadian artist Elaine Kowalsky , who is exhibiting her work in Liverpool for the first time , at a private viewing at the Merkmal Gallery , Faulkner Street , Toxteth . |
| 6 | and erm , but I I have to say that I , I do believe that we need to address more particularly er the transport a aspects of this and the planning aspects of it which , I think er are tending to get eased out of the er agenda , any way , if I may say er in respect of trading standards and the legal aspects of er the , the er produce that 's being sold there . |
| 7 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 8 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 9 | The reconstruction retraced the couple 's movements from 7pm when they are thought to have set off from Mrs Arnold 's flat in Shernhall Road , Walthamstow , east London . |
| 10 | City directors are understood to have pulled out for financial reasons . |
| 11 | A huge volume of Ferranti shares has changed hands since they returned to trading just over a week ago and a number of other potential bidders are believed to have built up small stakes . |
| 12 | Perhaps he was trying to butter up America and Britain , because the United Nations Security Council will soon be discussing tighter sanctions against Libya unless he hands over the people who are believed to have blown up an American airliner over Scotland in 1988 . |
| 13 | Syrian troops are believed to have rounded up many militiamen in the Bourj Abou Haidar area , where the fiercest fighting erupted . |
| 14 | They are believed to have made off with silverware and they also took a necklace which the woman was wearing . |
| 15 | US donations are believed to have fallen off in part as a result of the organization 's opposition to the Gulf War . |
| 16 | Shorts told the press : ‘ It is notable , even if regrettable , that the Argentine forces are believed to have shot down one Harrier GR3 and two helicopters with Blowpipe . ’ |
| 17 | The sold-out concert was scheduled to take place at Seattle 's 15,000 capacity Coliseum , however , Nirvana are believed to have pulled out because Kurt Cobain was furious over an interview which appeared in Vanity Fair magazine which revealed that he and his wife Courtney Love had indulged in a drug ‘ binge ’ while Courtney was pregnant ( see last week 's NME ) . |
| 18 | Set off last October to mark the anniversary of the explorer 's birth , all but one of the balloons are believed to have drifted out to sea . |
| 19 | Now reduced to a shell with news that members are believed to have backed out of providing their $3.5m dues ( CI No 2,143 ) , the organisation must now offer its testing services on other chip architectures if it is to survive in any form . |
| 20 | Now reduced to a shell with news that members are believed to have backed out of providing their $3.5m dues — see front page — the organisation must now offer its testing services on other chip architectures if it is to survive in any form ( UX Nos 424 , 429 ) . |
| 21 | Banks and building societies are estimated to have paid out more than £50 million to cheque cheats last year . |