Example sentences of "deemed [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standards may be relaxed if , say , the cost of controlling pollutant emissions in order to achieve the standards is deemed to be economically unacceptable to a nation . |
| 2 | The Employer 's Liability ( Defective Equipment ) Act 1969 , s. 1(1) now provides : Where … an employee suffers personal injury in the course of his employment in consequence of a defect in equipment provided by his employer for the purposes of the employer 's business and the defect is attributable wholly or partly to the fault of a third party ( whether identified or not ) the injury shall be deemed to be also attributable to negligence on the part of the employer . |
| 3 | One solution is to adopt the North American practice of providing patients with a comprehensive list of postoperative complications , but to most British doctors the prospect of burdening patients with ‘ unwanted ’ information about what might go wrong is deemed to be both unhelpful and unkind . |
| 4 | One of the company 's washing machines had been featured on a well-known consumer affairs television programme , and some of the selling tactics used by Argent Distributors ' salespersons were deemed to be rather suspect . |
| 5 | Those situations deemed to be moderately favourable required a people-oriented style . |
| 6 | The subjectivity of the whole procedure and particularly of this last section was alleviated to some extent by each teacher being observed by more than one member of the Senior Management Team and this aspect of the review may be deemed to be reasonably reliable . |
| 7 | These adjacent police forces were physically aberrant in nuance of bodily style and were therefore deemed to be socially incorrect . |
| 8 | The risks involved in displeasing the company were deemed to be too great . |
| 9 | It was then necessary to determine the ’ neighbourhood size ’ around each word , i.e. the limit beyond which words are deemed to be too far apart to be considered as neighbours . |
| 10 | These arguments have been used to justify the continued operation of branch railway lines and low productivity coal pits , where the costs of closure to the local economy were deemed to be too high , even if the operations themselves were unviable . |
| 11 | Thrifts were banned by law from investing in equities which were deemed to be too risky . |
| 12 | Insiders in the Cope camp claim that the 34-year-old singer was deemed to be too old and uncommercial by Island . |
| 13 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 14 | It is perhaps a reflection of the overall picture in academic libraries that their rates of use were deemed to be quite good . |
| 15 | As each successive Parliament is deemed to be all powerful , logically , that Parliament must have the power to make or unmake any law . |
| 16 | 1991 , 27 1006 ) , of course I approve of the purpose of the Control of Pesticide Regulations ( 1986 ) and COSHH regulations , but it is a ridiculous consequence of the regulations that chemists are deemed to be less well able than commercial fruit growers , for example , to understand that the chemicals involved ‘ have the capacity to be potentially lethal if wrongfully mixed , applied and handled ’ . |
| 17 | Elsewhere , they could be established at the discretion of the LGB when ‘ distress ’ was deemed to be suitably acute . |
| 18 | But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay . |