Example sentences of "[adj] are [verb] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's it 's on the basis that any employer has a duty of care to employees and what I mean by that is that er an employer has a responsibility to not work employers er er employees under conditions that that are known to be unsafe . |
| 2 | They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes . |
| 3 | More instances that this are required to be certain that the possible parts of speech of the word are found . |
| 4 | For even at the generally modest level of competition that Beckenham offers , the British are shown to be dismal failures . |
| 5 | At least 80% of heart attacks in men under 45 are thought to be due to cigarette smoking [ 5 ] . |
| 6 | After ballots of parents , 215 schools have so far opted out : but another 2,000 are known to be keen to do so , given that grant-maintained status offers them money and freedom . |
| 7 | The Japanese are said to be keen to invest more , but worry about the safety of their executives there . |
| 8 | Dicta to the contrary in McPhail v Persons Unknown [ 1973 ] 3 All ER 393 are thought to be applicable only if in the High Court . |
| 9 | An interesting point is raised at the end of the book , where it estimates that out of 210 Mustangs that survive worldwide , 112 are reported to be airworthy . |
| 10 | Many integrated rural development projects have conservation elements built into them , but , judging by evaluation reports , these are acknowledged to be difficult to measure , slow to bring benefits , and are often neglected or abandoned . |
| 11 | Have regard to the workload and the pressures on professional colleagues and subordinates and take appropriate action if these are seen to be such as to constitute abuse of the individual practitioner and/or to jeopardise safe standards of practice . |
| 12 | These are meant to be informal , but will be conducted in front of judges with legal teams on either side . |
| 13 | If these are thought to be appropriate for the person you are going to be in touch with , then the local Christian bookshop will undoubtedly stock a range . |
| 14 | Now , to be fair , you 'd have to say that only a few of these are going to be wacky enough to go for the fridge compilation album , but which ones ? |
| 15 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown added : ‘ These are going to be difficult times for the Royal Family and the whole House will wish to extend to them our sympathy , in particular to the Prince and Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 16 | These are claimed to be fatigue-resistant to cope with the high amplitude vibrations that are generated by fast stunters . |
| 17 | Although the courts do not refuse in principle to review the exercise of police discretionary powers , they do nevertheless exercise a great deal of caution and restraint to such a degree that it is difficult to see how in practice the principles of judicial review are capable of being used to challenge decisions to issue warrants where these are considered to be necessary for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 18 | If any of these are found to be tractable , then they all are . |
| 19 | Although realistic estimates of the capital costs to the university for radical restructuring are not available , these are known to be substantial ( perhaps £200m immediately ) , and the implications of all the Tomlinson proposals to the wellbeing of Londoners , to the university , and to the practice of medicine in London must be viewed with great concern . |
| 20 | No porosity or permeability data has been published for the oolitic grainstones but these are known to be porous in the southern North Sea and Poland where they display both primary inter-granular and leached intragranular pores ( Taylor and Colter 1975 ; Peryt and Piatkowski 1977 ; Peryt 1978 ) . |
| 21 | A crucial Keynesian assumption is that if holders of speculative money balances decide to hold their wealth in some other form , they are likely to purchase financial assets since these are taken to be closer substitutes for money than other types of assets . |
| 22 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 23 | Many are considered to be ineffective and contribute to the problems of disruptive and disaffected behaviour — but for unstructured and individualized reasons — an uncaring and insensitive teacher here , an inappropriate and irrelevant syllabus there . |
| 24 | The marginal costs of providing this particular public good are assumed to be constant . |
| 25 | Identification with the community is even consistent with hostility to its laws , if those are thought to be oppressive or unfair . |
| 26 | Those are considered to be high-end personal computers and single-user systems . |
| 27 | The mood and issues of the 1990s are bound to be different from those of the 1980s . |
| 28 | Thus in the valuable Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Basin , bands about an inch thick are said to be correlatable over an area of some 20000 square miles and even microscopic varves within those bands can be traced over 185 miles . |
| 29 | The two are said to be doubtful about Sun 's ability to deliver the code on time and they suspect the company may not give their systems priority over its own . |
| 30 | The two are said to be concerned over Sun 's ability to deliver code on time and suspect it may not prioritise their platforms over Sun 's own . |