Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] [verb] to be " in BNC.

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1 Even though information was not collected from women who were 45 years old or over , the pregnancy wastage in the older childbearing ages for which data were obtained seems to be of devastating proportions .
2 Another somewhat later group involved the clergy : penalties or disciplinary measures to which the clergy were subjected had to be preceded by notice and a hearing .
3 Analysis of any construction of meaning from which social practice is derived has to be part of the participant ethnographer 's cognitive processes , replacing the notion of simple observation as the main data-yielding technique .
4 Forgetting where your car is parked seems to be an example of impaired memory for a relatively complex event at the tactical level .
5 What little ore was mined began to be processed as required by available day workers .
6 The very terms in which the question was posed need to be critically reconsidered .
7 The positions Into which seasonal workers are placed tend to be relatively unskilled ones demanding little or no previous experience .
8 The purchaser should consider whether the business being bought needs to be valued for the purpose of CA 1985 , s103 ( exemptions ) .
9 The sixteen giant stainless steel tanks in which this waste is kept have to be constantly agitated and cooled to stop the liquid either precipitating or becoming too hot .
10 However , Mr Lewis 's engagingly informal manner , and his statement at dinner that the United States ‘ would always stand on the side of justice and did n't mind admitting mistakes had been made at Versailles ’ seemed to do much to win the confidence of his lordship 's ‘ home team' ; as dinner progressed , the conversation had slowly but surely turned from topics such as the merits of Mr Lewis 's native Pennsylvania back to the conference ahead , and by the time the gentlemen were lighting their cigars , some of the speculations being offered appeared to be as intimate as those exchanged prior to Mr Lewis 's arrival .
11 Whether motilin is involved remains to be determined .
12 the allegations pleaded ( which the court was required to assume to be true for the purposes of an issue as to service out of the jurisdiction ) were as follows .
13 In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission .
14 How care management and care programming are integrated remains to be seen , and it seemed reasonable to look to the community care plans for local authority policies on the question .
15 Everything goes smoothly , the syndicate collecting their financial reward , until one day a man appears in the gallery where the first exhibition was held claiming to be Hopkin .
16 Ian Scott , co-ordinator of its rural adult education project , said that at times the enthusiasm of the groups being taught had to be dampened : ‘ At the opening class of a course being run in Co Durham , the students frightened the tutor by demanding that there should be a march on County Hall .
17 Finally , after the first order system , the unit on which analysis is based ceases to be a material unit present to the senses ( as words , seen or heard ) but becomes an ideal , abstract unit created within the mind of the interpretive analyst .
18 The overt intrusion of politics into the courtroom varies widely from one system to another , but at root the legal process is a major way in which the ‘ who gets what ’ choices are made in any society , however different the process by which these choices are made appears to be .
19 Cassie 's first reaction was that the temporal abnormality with which Rose Cottage was afflicted seemed to be worsening .
20 However , the cases where the victim is named tend to be the cases which attract widespread or sustained coverage ( or both ) .
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