Example sentences of "which is [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the nature of the taboos varies between one society and another and even as between one situation and another within the same society , there is no particular action which is universally considered to be sinful in all circumstances : to kill a neighbour is a crime , to kill an enemy may be a duty . |
| 2 | The last situation is the system of alternating tripods of support , which is thus seen to be only one of a larger number of possible gaits . |
| 3 | The fabric has to be read with care in order to understand the evolution of the building , which is clearly going to be impossible where churches have plastered interiors or stuccoed exteriors . |
| 4 | firstly the only application of his associated with er improvements to er passenger transport in the structure er , in hoping that the Authority 's running into Central London and in terms of er traffic generation which is clearly going to be a , a significant issue in , in consideration of this particular enquiry . |
| 5 | this is the manner in which the consultants were engaged , we chose quality , expertise er above all else in doing this work , which is clearly going to be challenged from every day here on , so the issue of having an agreed finalized figure will cost early on , pay on the |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard , Sord , RCA and Dot have all plumped for Sony , which is generally reckoned to be ahead in the standard stakes . |
| 7 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 8 | Most drama training works on the assumption that there is something called ‘ standard English ’ , which is generally considered to be the ‘ straight ’ delivery of words without affectation or regional variation . |
| 9 | Manager John Stronge condemned the gang , which is also believed to be responsible for a series of attacks of the Belfast Castle Estate in recent months , and promised tough action . |
| 10 | The successful schemes were unsentimental and transcended the apparent dilemma posed by the design brief which asked for a building which related to preformed and powerful sensibilities and beliefs about life and death and which is also required to be effectively energy conscious . |
| 11 | This can give rise to confusion since +1 is considered to be TRUE and NOT(+1) is -2 , which is also considered to be TRUE . |
| 12 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |
| 13 | The former measurement is in terms of a value equal to twenty times the logarithm to the base ten of the ratio of the root-means square pressure of a sound to the reference pressure , which is normally taken to be two times ten to the minus five newtons per square metre , and the unit of measurement is on a uniform scale based upon ten times the logarithm to the base ten |
| 14 | Emphasis has been made on colours being complementary rather than the overpowering theme of total pattern co-ordination , a distinction which is already proving to be a success . |
| 15 | The small voluntary TRANSAID team has been strengthened this year by the addition of Eric Schumacher , formerly a senior manager with I.C.I. Eric brings with him extensive general management and transport experience , which is already proving to be valuable . |
| 16 | One product which is already beginning to be affected is the kitchen ventilation canopy . |
| 17 | The next stage is the 586 , which is widely believed to be the P5 processor which Intel has pre-announced . |
| 18 | That leaves difficult cases where an expert has reached a decision which is widely believed to be incorrect but can not be challenged . |
| 19 | The over-reliance on occupational class , which is widely acknowledged to be of diminishing utility in stratifying many social groups , has falsely persuaded some commentators that inequalities in mortality are shallower among adolescents than at any other stage in the life cycle . |
| 20 | It would force a return to the Roads –n Urban Areas style of road and housing layout which is widely agreed to be less than desirable – |
| 21 | Even the repetition in parallel of examples from different spheres of experience ( " rose … velvet … flour … wit … head " ) enforces the generality of a didactic principle which is otherwise seen to be particular . |
| 22 | So-called , because , except for Pretoria , no one in the world recognises the sovereignty of the Transkei , which is otherwise perceived to be simply a geographical region in the south-eastern corner of South Africa . |
| 23 | The rule for raising before velars , however , is strong and active and does not seem to have begun to recede lexically : in word-list style ( which is usually considered to be formal ) it persists much more strongly than post-velar raising ; neologisms undergo the rule , and it affects spelling ( see the discussion of ‘ occasional spellings ’ below ) . |
| 24 | The River Medway narrows slightly to c. 150 m ( 490 ft ) wide at Rochester , which is usually considered to be the lowest convenient crossing place . |
| 25 | Since the function of the is to identify something which is contextually known to be unique , it tends to signal continuity on a contextual , rather than textual level : Lawrence makes a pretence of shared knowledge with the reader , who by implication is already familiar with the surroundings , is already an inhabitant of the fictional world . |
| 26 | We 've got a number of questions we want to ask you , because er though you 're pivotal to all of our erm activities in this enquiry , we are also looking to a report which is hopefully going to be influenced the Bill the Government brings forward . |
| 27 | ‘ The Swedish devaluation in particular , and to a lesser extent the Norwegian and British devaluation , will affect the DFDS Group even more in 1993 , which is therefore expected to be an even more difficult year . |
| 28 | They were never importunate , never servile ; they never tried to lure Europeans into the kind of patron-client relationship which is often assumed to be vital to the functioning of the colonial psyche but which many Englishmen in fact found more annoying than gratifying . |
| 29 | However , a separate proposal was made by Easterbrook ( 1959 ) which describes an underlying mechanism which is often assumed to be responsible for both relationships . |
| 30 | The quality of ‘ capture ’ which is often said to be the major aim of the department becomes another ‘ lip service ’ to the outside world , although once again the symbolic content of this truth is multi-vocal . |