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

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1 Both UA1 and UA2 were designed to be capable of detecting W and Z particles .
2 Salespeople must be able to work and communicate with people in a variety of positions and be prepared to tailor their selling approaches to satisfy individual needs , e.g. specifiers will need to be convinced of the technical merits of the product , production people will want to be assured of guaranteed deliveries and buyers will be looking for value for money .
3 Ideally , it will need to be capable of working in all these media and of being extended .
4 Notice that the technique is extremely difficult to apply to the potentiometer divider of figure 8.1(c) because the resistance ratio can be varied continuously to alter the division of potential , and any introduced ratio of parallel capacitance would need to be capable of being varied in sympathy .
5 It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them .
6 A quarter of them said a pub would need to be full of ‘ my type of people ’ to warrant a visit .
7 Still , Lazaroni has to be given credit for absorbing the pan-Europeanism of his squad into something the Europeans will need to be aware of in Italy .
8 A social worker may need to be aware of those aspects , and of the need to assess the client before forming a social care plan .
9 I mean it 's been a helpful conversation , erm you know I 'm not s I you know you persuaded me , rightly or wrongly , that it 's not that much of an issue in in our fellowship , but it 's something that we do always need to be aware of .
10 In preparation for this students will need to be aware of cross-cultural discourse patterns .
11 In drafting reports , for example , the official will need to be aware of the ruling party 's political values .
12 Departmental heads will need to be aware of other departments within the organisation , will have outside relationships involving clients or customers , and will need to work with other agencies .
13 People in departments dominated by the professions will need to be aware of developments within the professional field and keep up-to-date with the latest techniques or equipment .
14 First , it is clear that they would need to be mutually oriented ; they would each need to be aware of what the other was doing at any time .
15 Secondly , they would need to be aware of the interactional domain ( e.g. their scope for movement , and the properties of objects around them ) , and be constantly updating this as it was affected by their actions .
16 Yeah there 's one little minor adjustment that you y you might be aware you might need to be aware of .
17 But investors do need to be wary of new-style income shares — such as those issued by Olim Convertible , Kleinwort High Income and Edinburgh Income — which rely more heavily on growth in the underlying assets to prevent substantial capital loss .
18 Although there are no perceptible weak links in this collection , the band may need to be wary of overburdening every track with intricate musical twists and turns .
19 But we do need to be wary of inferring too much central direction , partly because this implies that banks or companies were forced into compliance .
20 The leaves will need to be clear of the soil surface , which means that you will have a row of cuttings protruding some 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) .
21 You do n't need to be afraid of learning a little more .
22 I do n't need to be afraid of them ! ’
23 Right , and there 's various pros and cons to be aware of .
24 Dust filters and biological air filters appear to be capable of achieving considerable success in removing odours but can be fairly expensive , and new developments are taking place all the time , for example compost soil filters have been developed mainly in Germany and are being investigated by Warren Springs Laboratory .
25 Among them are such features as the screes of the Lake District , which may be fossil forms due to frost shattering in the closing phases of the Pleistocene ; dry valleys in Chalk areas , which have been discussed in Chapter 7 ; some of the gravel river terraces , which , although composed of coarse gravel , have gradients less than those of present rivers , which appear to be capable of transporting no material coarser than sand and mud .
26 ‘ You appear to be ignorant of the proper way to behave in an office of this kind .
27 It is , of course , rendered suspect simply because the writers connected with the tradition appear to be guilty of having ignored the best evidence concerning Abdulkerim and Molla Arab and because , in order to remain consistent , they must therefore necessarily extend the Muftilik of Molla Husrev to cover the period in the reign of Mehmed II from which the Muftilik of Abdulkerim appears to have been removed .
28 These findings appear to be representative of other studies concerned with carers of dependent elderly ( parker 1985 ; Qureshi and Walker 1989 ) .
29 Teenagers frequently appear to be resentful of parents or teachers but in reality this is often a sign that they are testing authority and seeing just how far they can go .
30 The remains appear to be those of a young woman .
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