Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the visitor could be forgiven for being a little disappointed , although when it is floodlit at night the theatre very much comes to life . |
| 2 | This was designed to be a very generous criterion , minimal examples of correct details could be ‘ We did n't have to wait at the lights ’ or ‘ There were several cars ahead of us ’ . |
| 3 | The more functional brace , such as the Lenox Hill Derotation Brace or the CTI/MVP brace , is designed to be a more effective deterrent against reinjury . |
| 4 | With other attractions planned in the village , such as the church flower festival , it 's expected to be a particularly busy day . |
| 5 | The cost is calculated with the benefit of advice from independent actuaries at what is expected to be a reasonably stable proportion of pensionable pay . |
| 6 | The language tutor , be he or she in EFL , ESOL , or Foreign and Community languages , is increasingly expected to be a highly competent professional able to tackle an increasingly demanding and diverse teaching environment . |
| 7 | Although he had not formally announced his candidature Olympio , son of President Sylvanus Olympio who was himself assassinated in 1963 , had been expected to be a very popular presidential candidate . |
| 8 | Weighted capitation is expected to be a more equitable system of distribution , taking account of the young and the elderly . |
| 9 | In the first , primary visual cortex , V1 or area 17 , as it is also known , there was considered to be a fairly faithful map of the retina with relatively little recoding of information having taken place between the eye and this part of the brain . |
| 10 | Once a million word corpus was considered to be a very large corpus , requiring a large amount of work to input the text to the computer followed by tagging and ( possibly ) annotation . |
| 11 | In Tanganyika , however , the Masai enjoyed what many Europeans considered to be an absurdly privileged position and envious eyes were cast on Masai District . |
| 12 | The trust is thus deemed to be a fully non-resident trust . |
| 13 | But there , at my age , I 'm permitted to be a little foolish . |
| 14 | The commercial rate was felt to be a still greater source of distortion because of its rather unpredictable incidence . |
| 15 | For this reason it seems best to concentrate upon the Mustakimzade tradition in order to be able to set the Katib Celebi tradition against the background of what is felt to be a more probable account of the origins of the Muftilik . |
| 16 | The statement ‘ Truth is God ’ , which Gandhi instinctively felt to be a more accurate expression of his basic position , is not inconsistent with his description of Truth as Being itself , as eternal , or with his reference to Truth as that which alone is , all else being momentary . |
| 17 | This may be felt to be a relatively radical conclusion — namely , that emotions , or affect on the normal human adult level , should be regarded as a symbolically generalized system , that is never ‘ id-impulse ’ as such . |
| 18 | Poland , one year after starting a strict anti-inflation programme , is said to be a particularly terrible place . |
| 19 | The fact is most parents seen to be a little unsure about what it is best to do when it comes to letting their children out in the sun . |
| 20 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |
| 21 | However , this has not been seen to be a very effective set of policies . |
| 22 | Supported Distance Learning is seen to be a highly cost-effective way of teaching English in Eastern Europe , where the acquisition of the international language of business is essential for the regeneration of a free market economy . |
| 23 | The document is especially interesting in retrospect because it can be seen to be a fairly crude thought about the need to escape the deadening effects of 16+ examining . |
| 24 | The triangular plan of the market place , which determined the shape of the town here , is now seen to be a perfectly rational shape for its purpose . |
| 25 | By contrast , the British labour movement was more interested in shop floor and trade union organizational issues than with politics or revolution : the trade union model ’ is seen to be a perfectly logical development in a civil society with considerable capacities for self-organisation' . |
| 26 | If people are made aware of the risks and volunteer , then that 's seems to be their own free choice , and if that is what they wish to do , then that it seen to be a perfectly fair about going of course it would be completely immoral to test a drug on somebody who was n't aware of what was going on . |
| 27 | A court might not be thought to be a particularly suitable body to make such a decision because , in many situations , the decision , whichever way it goes , will be politically highly contentious . |
| 28 | This kind of representational ability is thought to be a particularly important developmental achievement since the essence of early language is the child 's ability to use speech sounds to represent or refer to objects , actions and locations . |
| 29 | It was her research that showed how close we are in evolutionary terms to the apes : how they communicate with each other , use tools ( hitherto thought to be a strictly human activity ) and develop lifelong bonds of family and friendship . |
| 30 | " There were n't really many single men around , and he 'd have had to be a pretty outstanding young man to take her in hand . " |