Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This represents a great deal of frustration , a sense of failure and a lot of parental income felt to be wasted . |
| 2 | Subject to these qualifications , the prohibition of pecuniary interest seems to be an absolute one and is not further qualified by any requirement that the interest be substantial . |
| 3 | Walcott admitted that the middle group of professional politicians tended to be Whig or Tory in general , but he insisted on the need to add a Court–Country axis to the traditional frame of reference . |
| 4 | Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales . |
| 5 | The proponents of such outrageous plans were easily muzzled and isolated by the police and military authorities , but localized , ‘ patriotic ’ sympathies for some kind of regional autonomy continued to be cherished by a few individuals and groupings until the collapse of tsarist authority and the ensuing chaos of revolution and civil war created conditions in which the adherents of Siberian independence could now openly press their case and join in the bitter , fratricidal struggle of contending political and nationalist forces which raged across the country 's huge expanses between 1917 and 1922 . |
| 6 | This applies in particular to such features of English High Court procedure as mutual discovery of documents by the parties with or without a court order ; orders for the service on other parties of proofs of oral evidence intended to be led at the trial ; and certain orders which may be made even before the commencement of proceedings ( disclosure of documents by potential parties to an action in respect of personal injuries or death , and orders for the inspection , preservation or testing of property which may become the subject-matter of proceedings ) . |
| 7 | To obtain a greater degree of permanence the time symbols of oral speech had to be converted into the space symbols of written speech . |
| 8 | Where this might lead us in terms of political thought remains to be seen . |
| 9 | That is an uncomfortably close date for a power-broker ; and his opponents have noted that the threat of political execution seems to be concentrating his mind wonderfully . |
| 10 | Movies only needed to be social when the plot demanded it , and even if some kind of political crisis had to be depicted in a particular story then the attitude or position adopted by the movie would be less important to audiences than the logic of the plot . |
| 11 | The new housing drive met with a disappointing response in rural areas , however , where local authorities were reluctant to participate in the government 's house-building schemes — ; so reluctant , in fact , that specific legislation aimed at alleviating the plight of rural workers had to be introduced after 1935 . |
| 12 | Generally , the effects of stable stratification tend to be underestimated by simple order-of-magnitude considerations ( cf. |
| 13 | The flood of tormented flesh appeared to be one single myriad-headed entity which was now compressing itself insanely till eyes started , skin split , till blood vessels sprayed . |
| 14 | As for other jurists , six out of eleven cases seem to be interpolated , so we are left with five , one of Pomponius and four of Paul . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , such undisturbed layers are relatively rare on archaeological sites — most layers have suffered some later disturbance from a number of causes ( even burrowing animals or tree roots ) , so that an assessment of the integrity of each layer has to be made . |
| 16 | The probabilities of each route have to be calculated and summed to give the total probability . |
| 17 | The operational objectives of each agency have to be properly understood by the professional parties involved so that areas of conflict and compromise in practice can be identified and service provision improved . |
| 18 | The meticulous scrutiny of each invoice proved to be both tedious and time-consuming , especially for Graham , who had the disadvantage of not understanding anything he was reading . |
| 19 | Clearly the strength of each symptom needs to be taken into account . |
| 20 | In the French translation , the nature of each relation has to be reflected in the choice of pronouns that various characters use in addressing each other . |
| 21 | Consequently the results of each study have to be sold on the basis of the appropriateness of the methodology employed to the problem addressed . |
| 22 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 23 | The CO 's office where he was learning the job of Assistant Adjutant happened to be on the first floor of an empty house in Cadogan Gardens . |
| 24 | Ratings of subjective risk appeared to be relatively easy for most subjects to give . |
| 25 | As there was a rough , though by no means exact , correlation of social power with wealth , this meant that the élites of European society tended to be more and more permeated by members of the financial , industrial and professional bourgeoisie which had emerged increasingly as the dominant class in progressive societies since the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | However whether this will finally create the necessary commitment in this area of European policy remains to be seen . |
| 27 | The backbone of the system was the 60-mile [ 96-km ] road along the Great Glen linking Fort William and Fort George , to build which vast quantities of solid rock had to be blasted away along the eastern side of Loch Ness . |
| 28 | Notice that the enthalpies of formation of solid compounds tend to be more negative than the enthalpies of formation of gases . |
| 29 | At nearby Applewick only nine acres of open-field land remained to be enclosed by parliamentary act but 6,330 acres of upland moors were dealt with . |
| 30 | The stuff relinquished its grip upon him readily enough , drifting away to join the main mass of the stuff as it clustered around the end of the Bridge , where some kind of subtle activity seemed to be taking place . |