Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reported as being in excellent condition . |
| 2 | There is a tendency in commercial organisations to regard the personnel function as being of secondary importance compared to production , finance and marketing . |
| 3 | He liked the straw mattress and pulled out a small leather pouch which Corbett recognised as being in common use by clerks in the Chancery or envoys on their travels . |
| 4 | In 1879 , a Canadian called Russell , who had emigrated from Lanarkshire , devised a new design of curling stone which was accepted as being of greater efficiency and accuracy than any that had gone before . |
| 5 | It is still disputed where exactly the dome based upon pendentives originated , but its adoption for use in Christian churches is now accepted as being from eastern influence not , as was originally thought , from Imperial Rome . |
| 6 | The liber singularis of Paul from which this text is excerpted has long been suspected as being of post-classical origin . |
| 7 | Economic and social factors now loom large , and can be seen as being of greater importance than purely land use matters , though the courts would not necessarily accept such a line of reasoning ( as , for instance , when Lord Widgery held that the London Borough of Hillingdon could not impose a condition that the occupants of a private housing development should be people on the council 's waiting list ) . |
| 8 | It is crucial , therefore , that mathematics be recognised as being of less value if it is not based on a multicultural approach . |
| 9 | These employees , widely recognised as being in short supply , are increasingly important to the economic future of the country . |
| 10 | In books dealing with the more spiritual aspects of man , the levels are often portrayed as being outside each other , each ascending level being larger than the one below , as shown in Figure 2 . |
| 11 | When falsificationism was introduced as an alternative to inductivism in the previous chapter , falsifications , that is , the failures of theories to stand up to observational and experimental tests , were portrayed as being of key importance . |
| 12 | The fact that many non specialist teachers will have experience of a change to enquiry methods in their own specialist subject area is acknowledged as being of considerable value . |
| 13 | Essentially they wanted a consultancy service from a social worker who was basically a colleague sharing their frustrations and difficulties but also their joys and successes and recognising their own expertise and greater knowledge of detail ; a sounding-board off which to bounce ideas about how to solve a problem ; someone concerned about quality control , providing an inspectorial service so that the child 's interests could be safeguarded ( but this aspect they saw as being of prime importance at the approval and matching stage ) . |
| 14 | These people are often cited as being at particular risk of HIV , either from sprays or spillage of contaminated blood or injuries from needles . |
| 15 | The State , albeit in an anti-metaphysical sense , was thus viewed as being of central importance . |
| 16 | Company capital may be viewed as being of three types , short term , medium term and long term . |
| 17 | Company capital may be viewed as being of three types , short term , medium term and long term . |
| 18 | The vast majority of such experiences can easily be interpreted in terms of orthodox science — usually statistics : most people , including myself , have only a hazy understanding of the workings of probability , and so perfectly commonplace coincidences seem to be outrageously improbable , and are therefore viewed as being in some way paranormal . |
| 19 | Throughout history women has always been construed as being in close contact with the earth . |
| 20 | When patient 301 was diagnosed as being affected by FAP , her specialist offered screening to family members identified as being at high risk . |
| 21 | The four areas identified as being of critical importance were : |
| 22 | We shall categorize the explanations which result as being in different modes . |
| 23 | They have skills and qualities which make them highly valuable and which most organizations regard as being in short supply . |
| 24 | The authors noted that one of the eight deaths had been recorded as being from motor neurone disease even though the patient had died from a myelopathy secondary to severe cervical spondylosis . |
| 25 | In the latest report to become available , dealing with mortality at 10 years , eight deaths were certified as being from motor neurone disease while only three such deaths were expected from national rates . |
| 26 | In this view the natural — that is , biological — family is perceived as being of unique value to the child and as being , for the vast majority of children , the optimum context for their growth , upbringing and development . |
| 27 | It is one of the easiest measures for the government to control , but it has been frequently criticized as being of little use as an indicator of spending power in the economy since it excludes the most important component of money supply , namely bank deposits , and includes money in banks ' tills which is the money that banks need to keep in their tills as a ‘ float ’ . |
| 28 | Larger quantities will be regarded as being for commercial purposes , unless buyers can prove otherwise . |
| 29 | His teachings were regarded as being of such importance that they are used unaltered to this day at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna . |
| 30 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |