Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , no matter how explicit these conventional procedures are or how scrupulously they are used , some cases will arise , as the sample cases showed , when the instructions will be seen to be unclear or incomplete . |
| 2 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |
| 3 | I mean I know an awful lot of people outside Harlow who who come here but Harlow people could be said to be apathetic or not being marketed rightly . |
| 4 | Is saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm so tired ’ natural tiredness-behaviour for us , in spite of the fact that ‘ I 'm tired ’ , unlike yawning , even pretence yawning , can be said to be true or false ? |
| 5 | But other concerns seem to centre around whether animals might properly be said to be happy or free from worry' , not in the sense of being healthy and free from pain but rather with the human paradigm in mind . |
| 6 | Consider the extent to which the approach can be said to be atomistic or holistic , bottom-up or top-down . |
| 7 | Some change is certainly necessary , but by itself can not be said to be sufficient or specific . |
| 8 | There was nothing to be got from being disagreeable or testy . |
| 9 | The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid . |
| 10 | I have suggested that it can be shown to be fair or just to do so ; but this may not make it right if some other principle of greater weight is involved . |
| 11 | A large number of facts relevant to a theory must be ascertained by observation under a wide variety of circumstances , and the extent to which the theory can be shown to be true or probably true in the light of those facts by some kind of inductive inference must be established . |
| 12 | According to the latter , only those theories that can be shown to be true or probably true are to be admitted into science . |
| 13 | That can not be judged to be fair or equitable . ’ |