Example sentences of "be [verb] to be [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Alternatively , the pursuer 's advisers may appreciate that being unable to produce better vouching , the claim can not be proven to be worth more than the Tender which is , consequently , accepted .
2 In Beck v Szymonowski [ 1924 ] AC 43 a clause which provided that " the goods delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the contract " unless the buyer notified the seller of complaints within a stated period was held not to apply where the seller contracted to sell reels of cotton 200 yards in length but actually supplied reels of only 188 yards : the claim was " not in respect of goods delivered but in respect of goods which are not delivered " ( despite the fact that this might have been regarded as a claim that the goods did not comply with their description ) .
3 County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket .
4 But uneven development can be argued to be about more than patterns .
5 Yet they can be shown to be in some sense the implicit guardians of morality .
6 However , such a mental exercise may be found to be of more benefit to him than could any rules , and as such may not be such a bad thing .
7 I do n't think that they can be taken to be in any particular order .
8 It is said that if the Logos is to be conceived to be in some sense male , then equally the Spirit is to be held to be female .
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