Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Mr er Deputy Speaker I er do n't wish to er follow the honourable member of one of my er neighbours but I actually think it 's really part of grown up politics to ensure that the political opinion of a nation is adequately represented in the forums of that nation whether it be in this place or in the European er parliament and to that extent I make no bones about it that erm I wish that we were debating a different electoral system and Mr Deputy Speaker going back to the minister 's introduction erm it is a fact , I did n't wish to intervene because I did n't , it 's a short debate and I did n't want to take up er extra time , but it is a fact is it not that our electoral system unique across Europe means that our deadline as opposed to what the French are going to do is different to all the other member states . |
| 2 | By way of abbreviation of what is stated by the independent conditionals in ( 5 ) , cc can be said to have necessitated e , and e can be said to have been necessary to cc . |
| 3 | This level of poverty might be thought to have been peculiar to London , which was believed by contemporaries to have a greater concentration of poverty than elsewhere . |
| 4 | The defendant must be proved to have been indifferent to an obvious risk of injury to health , or actually to have foreseen the risk but to have determined nevertheless to run it . ’ |
| 5 | The circumstances in which social workers are asked to intervene are likely to be complex , as many of the case studies elsewhere in the book show . |
| 6 | Eorcenwald , bishop of London , is said to have been privy to discussions between Theodore and Wilfrid ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) . |
| 7 | West believed that his mother had murdered his father ; the idea preyed upon him and is thought to have been contributory to his early death . |
| 8 | Before issuing such a summons the court must be satisfied that the witness may be able to give material evidence or that any document he is required to produce is material to the proceedings . |
| 9 | Cape Building Products accepted that any asbestos related conditions Mr McKenzie was shown to suffer were attributable to its fault . |
| 10 | They were things both of them had sacrificed to this relationship which she was beginning to understand was destructive to both of them . |