Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] to be a " in BNC.

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1 The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes .
2 The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way .
3 In terms of the alternative function Z , the original solution may be described by a real function Z and the new solution satisfying ( 11.8 ) is then given by ( 12.46 ) This can thus be seen to be a transformation of the type ( 12.2 ) followed by an Ehlers transformation in a slightly more general form than ( 12.13 ) .
4 Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such .
5 That can not be said to be a full description of reason within the disciplines , for they can not be sustained without values and judgement .
6 English has no dental or labiodental plosive phonemes , so in these cases , although there is clearly assimilation , there could not be said to be a substitution of one phoneme for another .
7 The market can not be seen to be a neutral , fair process whose structure simply permits participants to exercise free choice in negotiating and concluding exchange transactions .
8 ‘ However , the law must not be seen to be an ass .
9 A payment made by reason of this Clause shall not be deemed to be a claim under this Policy for the purpose of the No Claim Bonus Section .
10 A.3.2 Any matter or thing so notified shall not be and shall not be deemed to be a disclosure for the purpose of qualifying or limiting the liability of the Vendor pursuant to this Agreement .
11 ‘ The manufacturing of electrical and electronic components in the year 1964 … can not be adjudged to be a special use nor can the bringing and storing on the premises of metal foil be a special use in itself … .
12 An ageing labour force can not be expected to be a mobile one .
13 While it certainly can not be claimed to be a panacea for all ills , and no system of therapeutics has yet turned out to be that , it is an approach which I would not like to be without .
14 A court might not be thought to be a particularly suitable body to make such a decision because , in many situations , the decision , whichever way it goes , will be politically highly contentious .
15 It is also the case that people 's sex can not be held to be an effect of their job or their work record ; sex must be assumed to be causally prior to both of these variables .
16 Where there is a surety to the agreement and an assignment by the tenant is agreed by the landlord , it is advisable to ensure that while the surety may still be forced to be bound by the obligations on its part contained in the agreement , the surety should not be forced to be a party to the lease .
17 If God intended that parents should not be permitted to come between a husband and a wife , then surely football pals or the darts team , the sports club , or any other activity should not be allowed to be an obstacle to this new relationship .
18 When , however , its satisfactions depend upon the infliction of pain or damage upon an unwilling partner , the situation is again that of using a person as a mere object : the sadist ( or , sometimes , the masochist ) may genuinely be said to be a social and personal menace .
19 Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator .
20 The Prince of Wales could hardly be said to be a good luck symbol at the moment .
21 It could also be said to be an example of the developed use of experienced laymen to assist in the determination of disputes .
22 If the scheme is comprehensive , it may also be said to be an unwieldy instrument for judges and juries to use .
23 In specific terms , we can take this to mean : that war remains a political act ; that war must also be understood to be a revolutionising act ; and , finally , that it thereby acquires the potential to become ‘ absolute war ’ — whose corollary is total victory and absolute peace .
24 As an inside exploration of culture this might also be considered to be a ‘ liminal ’ or ‘ liminoid ’ phenomenon ( V. Turner 1974 , 1977 ) , for as it delves beneath the surface phenomena , the subjective analysis can reveal unconscious categories and transformational operations which lie between the dual poles and such exclusively preferred categories as ‘ cops and robbers ’ .
25 In this way , this family of solutions may also be considered to be a generalization of the Szekeres solutions with .
26 The question which arises is whether the family proceedings court can make an order for no contact ; that is whether it could properly be said to be an order which was ‘ appropriate ’ with respect to the contact between the child and the parent .
27 Since the unit almost certainly operated some Piper Cubs , it could loosely be said to be an airfield memorial !
28 The production of compound documents requires a different approach , no single program can really be expected to be a word processor , graphics package , illustrator and page makeup in one .
29 If you can forgive Milton for what might now be considered to be a sexist remark , there is a 17th century solidity about his philosophy of learning .
30 It appears to be the most durable consequence of , and could well be considered to be a ‘ surviving paradigma ’ of , Paracelsus .
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