Example sentences of "[adj] [det] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A certain proportion remains unaccounted for and it is part of this that is claimed to be the product of investment in education and health . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough Bears 41 Slangerup 47 THIS was set to be one of the most exciting challenges for the opening of a new season at Middlesbrough 's Cleveland Park last night , but wet and miserable conditions turned it into something of a farce . |
| 3 | Perhaps all that 's needed to be a good judge of another person is the art of listening , not only with our ears but with our whole attention . |
| 4 | This is what happens when the bedrock of decency , the liberal sensibilities and assumptions which we all share , are all that 's left to be scandalized . |
| 5 | In a sense , repressing all that was deemed to be inimical to the regime was the " easy " part of the task of consolidating the result of the Civil War . |
| 6 | All that was left to be done was the last-minute cooking . |
| 7 | The consequence of all this is bound to be the persisting low status of this work . |
| 8 | The benefit of all this is estimated to be a saving on annual costs of about $4,000m beginning in 1993 — but all the cost-cutting that the company already has under its belt has done no more than enable it to stand still , which is why several analysts question whether even the latest cuts will prove sufficient . |
| 9 | All this was meant to be experimental , but it would be better to describe it as speculative , as I have an idea that I could arrive at some sort of interesting effect if I kept trying , and the lack of certainty about the end result hardly mattered . |
| 10 | But all these are shown to be birds of mature woodlands , while some warblers and Yellowhammer emerge as birds of scrub or young plantation and edge . |
| 11 | In the general problem , however , it is only the background region I that is taken to be flat , and regions II and III , as well as IV , are curved . |
| 12 | By mid-February only 47 thrifts had been closed or sold , another 300 were under the management of the Resolution Trust Corporation ( RTC ) and 200 more were expected to be taken over soon . |
| 13 | In 1982 this rose to 70% and by 1990 this is expected to be comfortably exceeded . |
| 14 | Up to twenty thousand a day are being allowed to cross into Jordan from Iraq , but thousands more are said to be waiting just across the border . |