Example sentences of "that [modal v] [be] [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may seem perfectly acceptable so long as we are convinced of the absolute rightness of these standards ; but the question must arise whether there is any point in seeking for single comprehensive definitions of such categories as poetry , literature , art , etc. , or whether it is not better to regard the definitions that may be devised as applicable only to certain kinds of literature or certain aspects of texts . |
| 2 | Curbing responses that may be interpreted as compliant and acquiescing |
| 3 | It is a knitting system that should be considered as temporary storage area for patterns that are to be knitted at this time . |
| 4 | He considered that the water supplies were ‘ very good ’ — a term that must be regarded as relative only , since the summit was in fact often short of water and there were , in several years , closures , reductions of tolls and tonnage limits imposed on the Watford to Foxton section , all on account of insufficient water to keep the two flights properly fed . |
| 5 | Exploitations of this maxim are , as Grice notes , a little harder to find , if only because it is hard to construct responses that must be interpreted as irrelevant . |
| 6 | Speech that might be regarded as insulting because it attacks the cherished views and beliefs of the audience at which it is directed is in particular jeopardy from this section . |
| 7 | Until now , at least publicly , the society has played down the level of anxiety ; it has resisted taking any action that could be seen as anti-government . |
| 8 | We picked £200 as a price that could be regarded as low ; it 's hardly our fault that some vendors chose to compete with PagePlus on factors others than price . |
| 9 | The map , drawn up by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , highlights waters off up to 10 per cent of the British coast that could be designated as special areas for conservation under the directive , but so far discussion of the sites has been confined to marine scientists within the British statutory nature conservation bodies . |
| 10 | Most of the wordings initially used for trusts in Roman law are words that could be described as precatory . |
| 11 | I was still left looking for any element that could be described as cavalier . |
| 12 | He discovered it has two electrons that could be described as ready and waiting to form chemical bonds . |
| 13 | Without doing anything that could be described as eccentric , he left an impression of strangeness . |
| 14 | Trying to fight off calls for a ceasefire or resolutions that could be interpreted as critical , the US used its clout with Caribbean nations to block consideration of Nicaragua 's proposal on the grounds that all resolutions should be tabled with 24 hours notice . |
| 15 | She did not wish to display any gesture that could be interpreted as precious or affected . |
| 16 | Hunters do not portray the hunt in ways that could be construed as aggressive , either in the hunter 's emotional state or in his attitude to the prey . |
| 17 | If the Procurator was looking for his own pickings , it would have been in his interest to provoke a reaction that could be construed as hostile . |
| 18 | Certain items that would be classified as extraordinary under SSAP 6 were classified as exceptional : as a consequence , they showed earnings per share on a different basis from that required by SSAP 3 . |
| 19 | The context of the discourse of anthropology provides constraints on the form of a statement that will be recognized as meaningful . |
| 20 | In summer 1984 a Commission scientist wrote in Coal and Energy Quarterly , a journal funded by and used as a mouthpiece for the National Coal Board , that ‘ there is no damage [ in British conifers ] that can be defined as new ’ and ‘ the chances of similar damage [ to that in West Germany ] occurring here is considered low . ’ |
| 21 | Furthermore , the separation of the great house from its neighbours , which had developed in Jane Austen 's lifetime , became the rule in Queen Victoria 's reign : ‘ A solitude in the centre of a wide park is now the only site that can be recognized as eligible . ’ |
| 22 | MACR does not form a word that can be Used as mnemonic , and Memory , Aims , Concentration and Review still lack one thing . |
| 23 | They may , however , also be used to generate solutions of Ernst 's equation that can be considered as possible to colliding plane wave solutions . |
| 24 | The second group of species common on Sheffield 's wasteland are the invertebrates that can be described as synanthropic , or culture-favoured . |
| 25 | That is , it is about works of a genre that can be identified as equivalent to the fabliau in French or in Anglo-Norman . |
| 26 | Faced with the problem of induction and related problems , inductivists have run into one difficulty after another in their attempts to construe science as a set of statements that can be established as true or probably true in the light of given evidence . |