Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to be of " in BNC.

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1 The final stages of formation are expected to be of the nature of an lhb .
2 The conclusions to this study are expected to be of use to policy-makers in deciding where help in promoting a better trained workforce is most needed .
3 In the long term , the use of ursodeoxycholic acid has been reported to be of benefit in primary sclerosing cholangitis , but the mechanism by which ursodeoxycholic acid exerts a beneficial effect is unknown .
4 Thymectomy has previously been reported to be of benefit in ulcerative colitis , but it is possible that it may also have a beneficial effect in Crohn 's disease .
5 the level below which certain collocates are deemed to be of too low frequency to be statistically stable .
6 There are , however , certain promises and acts which , for various reasons of policy , are deemed to be of no value in law and which are therefore an insufficient consideration .
7 It has been designed to be of value and interest to all grades of nurses who may wish to work through for their own interest and professional development .
8 The rocks primarily consist of unfossiliferous conglomerates the age of which is not known with certainty , other than being post-Caledonian , but they are considered to be of probable Trias age .
9 The companies act and the act on the stock exchange are considered to be of primary importance for the creation of a free market economy .
10 Similarly other features such as the Behaviour Modification System are considered to be of little value .
11 But when discovered it was assigned by its excavators to the late-third or early-fourth century ( Britannia VIII ( 1977 ) , 413 ) : a dating subsequently accepted by Neal ( 1981 , no. 63 ) and Swain and Ling ( Britannia XII ( 1981 ) , 168 : where the wall paintings from the same room as the mosaic are considered to be of late-third/early-fourth century date ) .
12 Even when a building is relatively plain inside , as time passes all historic finishes and fabric are seen to be of greater significance ; so it is desirable to preserve as much of the original interior as possible .
13 Allowing doctors to choose whether to spend time in teaching , or research , or management will work only if all of the options are seen to be of equal importance .
14 In this regard , the following requirements of the Short Courses are seen to be of positive value :
15 Remains of the chancel are said to be of the 12th century , and the tower was rebuilt in the 15th century and has three bells .
16 These three papers are said to be of the same standard as the six Law Society 's finals papers .
17 Balanced tree indexing Indexes are said to be of order e when there are e records per index entry , and of height h , where there are h levels of the index .
18 The pieces are considered some of Peru 's finest archaeological treasures and are said to be of incalculable value .
19 Certainly almost all of the characters that Burdon lists have been shown to be of selective importance either in clover or in some related species , though sometimes under very specialized circumstances .
20 Both light and heavy exercises have been shown to be of benefit in improving physical conditioning .
21 Indeed , one of the first die links ever published drew attention to the surprising use of the same die on two coins which had been thought to be of different mints .
22 There is a further indication that this is the right solution ; one of the few archaeological finds to have come from the battlefield at Vézeronce is a fine helmet , which has been thought to be of Ostrogothic workmanship .
23 The type of government in power and its stability are bound to be of concern to expatriates .
24 Its use has been recognised to be of value in applications such as machine translation and speech recognition .
25 Although none of the autoantibodies have been proved to be of pathogenetic significance , it has been shown , both in Crohn 's disease and in ulcerative colitis , that IgG and complement can be present on the apical surface of enterocytes in vivo , possibly indicating a pathogenetic role for anti-epithelial/anti-brush border antibodies in inflammatory bowel disease .
26 In the book I have attempted to give a practical interpretation of the soft systems approach , an interpretation that has been found to be of value in many studies with which I have been associated .
27 A recent application in our own hands has been in the treatment of multiple sclerosis where it has been found to be of value in restoring at least some nerve function in about 60–70 per cent of patients treated .
28 In a previous double-blind trial , it had been found to be of value in about 70 per cent of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and about 40 per cent of those with osteoarthritis .
29 Despite the recent debate on VDU health hazards , which has raged furiously on both sides of the Atlantic , Cox report that ‘ there are no radiation levels that could be considered to be of concern to the normal individual ’ ( Displays Technology and Applications , vol 4 , p 7 ) .
30 ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . )
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