Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent reports have argued that the presence of ectopic endometrium may be physiological and should be considered to be pathological only if associated with symptoms or signs of progression and tissue damage . |
| 2 | And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence . |
| 3 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 4 | Alternatively , production arrangements may be designed to be flexible enough to supply target markets in a large number of relatively small and specialised niches , such as in the market for industrial or aviation control systems . |
| 5 | The basic problem with this aspect of the technique is that the movement occurs very quickly , so you could be excused for being unsure quite what has happened . |
| 6 | At the same time , a vuggy porosity was also created in the lower unit of carbonate mudstones but this was found to have resulted from the dissolution of patches and veins of replacement halite ( Fig. 29b and c ) and as such can not be expected to be present away from the areas where replacement has occurred . |
| 7 | In this way , individual operations can be shaped to be realistic rather than at odds with the likely outcome . |
| 8 | The degree to which the ESSE/L Project can be seen to be radical either as an initiative , or in its actual impact in schools , depends on how close it comes to one or other of these doctrines . |
| 9 | Yet , as Mary Ainsworth ( 1969 ) points out in relation to the concept of attachment between mother and child ( monkeys included ) , a mental or physiological condition can be said to be present even when it is not visible in behaviour . |
| 10 | But surely there are no acts of introspection " that could in any intelligible sense be said to be identifiable independently of their objects , analogous to " acts of extrospection " . |
| 11 | Hinshaw makes a distinction between the ‘ cognitive ’ and ‘ evocative ’ contents of knowledge suggesting that the ‘ truth ’ , at the semantic and syntactic levels , can be considered in isolation from the social basis of knowledge in so far as it can be shown to be cognitive rather than evocative . |
| 12 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 13 | The Chief Justice did however stress that a by-law would not be held to be unreasonable simply because a particular judge thought that it went further than was prudent or necessary or convenient . |
| 14 | In M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 9 Morris LJ said " I do not consider that a restriction … would necessarily be held to be unreasonable merely because it could be shown possibly to extend to one or two cases beyond the range of contemplated protection " . |
| 15 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |
| 16 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion . |
| 17 | Both find that life , and of course the activity of philosophy , is untenable without some standards of absolute truth , the canon of ‘ reason ’ , which can generate knowledge that can be held to be true regardless of perspective or context . |