Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should be decided in the context of the firm 's overall strategic thinking and not left to be resolved ad hoc . |
| 2 | HEARTS defender Craig Levein today gazed ahead to his vision of Scotland 's international future and immediately demanded to be part of it . |
| 3 | Second home owners have roused the ire of local inhabitants more than either commuters or retired newcomers , partly by the very fact that their houses are second homes and therefore considered to be needed less than the houses of other ex-urbanites . |
| 4 | However , the five committed themselves to remaining within the party , Charles , a former deputy leader of the JLP and widely acknowledged to be the leader of the dissident group , in effect mounting a leadership challenge . |
| 5 | He continued to make radio broadcasts and took one of the lead roles in Noye 's Fludde , based on the Chester Miracle Play and widely considered to be Benjamin Britten 's masterpiece of children 's music . |
| 6 | They remained popular in the West throughout the Middle Ages and even continued to be used by the supreme tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire until its abolition by Napoleon in 1806 . |
| 7 | Jamie Ray , another American , was jailed for 4 years and also ordered to be deported . |
| 8 | Out of chaos emerged a self-created god , Atum , who was all or nothing , who was the original sun god of Heliopolis and later deemed to be the creative aspect of Re . |
| 9 | The designers of this anti-twitch device look set to make a handy crust from anyone prepared to part with £75 and also prepared to be unworried by stares . |
| 10 | In fact , in 1989 the Abbey National Building Society became a public limited company and thereby ceased to be a building society , becoming instead a bank . |