Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 2 | The products are claimed to be cabable of operating as a client to Novell 's NetWare SAA communications server across Novell and TCP/IP networks . |
| 3 | In patients with a macroadenoma ( >1 cm in diameter ) of the pituitary a plasma prolactin concentration of >4000 mU/l , >6000 mU/l , or >8000 mU/l has been reported to be diagnostic of a prolactin secreting adenoma . |
| 4 | This may be seen as a measure of the extent to which opportunities for successful study are being provided for students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving this success . |
| 5 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 6 | Children are seen to be innocent of life 's problems and should somehow not have to face all the difficulties of death . |
| 7 | The following are some of the features that have been said to be characteristic of primitive societies . |
| 8 | For 60 years the Council has been seen to be independent of government and political parties . |
| 9 | Such waves are said to be capable of setting up oscillations which may damage a jointed structure , as the increases and decreases of pressure tend to pull jointed blocks away . |
| 10 | All racial incidents are carefully monitored at divisional and area level , and senior officers are instructed to be vigilant of possible rising trends . |
| 11 | The could be if you pop yourself there , he sits there and she sits there , you 're asking him a question , he 's not sure , he looks at her , so if you look you ca n't see what you 're doing , you want to be able to maintain eye contact with them both , yeah , one of the effective ways , well they 're going to be aware of the layout of the living room , this is their , this is their stage . |
| 12 | He 's got the gall to phone up on Tuesday and say Eileen ca n't do a day , we 're going to be short of Eileen . |
| 13 | Even if you 're not a serious d-i-yer , you 're bound to be aware of this clever invention . |
| 14 | The confounding factors were patients ' characteristics that had been shown to be predictive of increased perinatal risk . |
| 15 | As the plaintiff had not been shown to be guilty of contributory negligence , he was entitled to recover damages , on the grounds of negligence . |
| 16 | Although the mechanism by which dowsing works is not understood , the method has been shown to be capable of accurately locating buried archaeological features . |
| 17 | Salmon have been shown to be capable of the necessary olfactory discrimination , but the most direct evidence that they use their sense of smell comes from experiments , of the kind first performed by W. J. Wisby and A. D. Hasler , in which the salmon 's olfactory sense was impaired . |
| 18 | For example , in several cases in the present text , the object has been shown to be expressive of quite autonomous elements of the dimensions analysed , as function beyond efficiency , image of manufacture beyond actual construction , pure individuality , coherent style and so forth . |
| 19 | The movement to re-examine curriculum and methodology , which has been shown to be characteristic of teachers and educationists since the end of the Second World War , may take a variety of different forms , and become associated with a number of different fashions and bandwagons , but it is unlikely to come to a halt . |
| 20 | Although histamine stimulates the incorporation of H + , K + -ATPase rich cytoplasmic tubulovesicles into the apical membrane in parietal cells , it is unclear whether a similar phenomenon occurred in HGT-1 cells as they have been shown to be devoid of secretory organelles . |
| 21 | ‘ So do you think I am going to be afraid of Lennox Lewis ? |
| 22 | Particular approaches are thought to be supportive of commercial activity and are adopted with this end in view . |
| 23 | Most mammals apart from man are thought to be unaware of colour , or the differentials between wavelengths in the light to which their eyes are sensitive . |
| 24 | Changes which are identified here are thought to be suggestive of changes which might take place in other areas of Shetland as the construction phase of the oil era winds down , and the oil production phase takes off in earnest . |
| 25 | But I 'm aware that people are going to be suspicious of another band mixing guitars with dance beats . |
| 26 | Until production on the FSX builds up , Japanese plane makers are going to be short of work . |
| 27 | Eurobankers are beginning to be chary of lending to the nationalized industries and state authorities of even big countries in balance of payments deficits . |
| 28 | We saw in the main street the corpse of a woman already gnawed by dogs ( people are beginning to be afraid of dogs ) . |
| 29 | The amount of time spent out of doors is so dependent upon the weather that children are bound to be aware of changes and some effects of sun , wind , rain and snow . |
| 30 | Ambiguity arises where , through an error in drafting , the words used in the statute are found to be capable of bearing two or more meanings . |