Example sentences of "[prep] this be [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) . |
| 2 | The justification for this was expressed to be that it would thus be open to a court at a later date to review the matter of sex determination Ormrod J. 's decision , much cited and approved of in the House of Commons debate , evidently will remain the law . |
| 3 | One of the principal reasons for this was considered to be the existence of the defence for men under 24 . |
| 4 | All of this is said to be made easier by ( and possibly to have been a partial consequence of ) the introduction of information technology . |
| 5 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |
| 6 | All of this was admitted to be long term . |