Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is also to be reckoned with , I have no fears for her . ’ |
| 2 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 3 | It is rather to be traced to the survival of feudal notions of lordship . |
| 4 | you 're , you 're not saying that it , it , it , it is simply to be struck down without reference to any under lying |
| 5 | Nor does it seem likely that the idea of causal power is not open to analysis , or , what comes to much the same , that it is somehow to be acquired without noticeable effort by thinking on what is common to such verbs as " push " and " pull " , as has sometimes been supposed . |
| 6 | It is thus to be welcomed that a number of studies have appeared which examine the nature of the early twentieth century Conservative party and which stress the importance of Conservative ideas in understanding the Party 's development during its period of crisis . |
| 7 | ‘ You may give me a kiss , dear Mary , since it is soon to be your birthday . ’ |
| 8 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 9 | Maintenance Manager — this role has been given considerable status in this example ; it could have been placed in a subordinate position to the Manufacturing Manager , where it is frequently to be found . |
| 10 | We propose that that process should be concluded not later than April , but it is immensely to be hoped that it can be done far more speedily . |
| 11 | Secretan arrived at the same conclusion : ‘ It is scarcely to be wondered at that youthful craving for variety and excitement sometimes leads gangs of boys to try and put a little colour into their leisure hours in ways which lead to conflict with authority or to degradation of character . |
| 12 | But in my judgment , at all events where the belief is that A is going to be given a right in the future , it is properly to be regarded as giving rise to a species of constructive trust , which is the concept employed by a court of equity to prevent a person from relying on his legal rights where it would be unconscionable for him to do so … |
| 13 | It is also to be distinguished from the measurement of method . |
| 14 | ‘ It is also to be remarked , ’ wrote Wallace , ‘ that the great chain of active volcanoes in Sumatra and Java furnishes us with a sufficient cause for this subsidence , since the enormous masses of matter thrown out would take away the foundations of the surrounding district ; and this may be the true explanation of the often-noticed fact that volcanoes and volcanic chains are always near the sea . |
| 15 | It is also to be found in stronger or weaker versions of more cautious academic thought . |
| 16 | It is also to be noted that the factual antecedent information is backgrounded by being placed in subordinate positions in these sentences ( see 7.5.1 ) . |
| 17 | It is also to be observed that the proposition as stated by Dillon L.J . |
| 18 | A lot of what it has in it is also to be found in all sorts of other books in the genre . |
| 19 | It is also to be seen as a stepping stone to further bilingual specialisation . |
| 20 | It is also to be found in most other industries , where it is employed to produce prototype models , spare parts , modifications to existing plant and countless other ‘ one-off ’ , tailor-made pieces . |
| 21 | And in respect of this main concern , it is also to be related to a particular tradition within German thought , which provides us with our starting point : a tradition of theoretical enquiry into the nature of tragedy — Greek tragedy , above all . |
| 22 | It is also to be found in the special character of the theory of language which more than any other was responsible for this development , that of the Swiss philologist and professor of linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857–1913 ) . |
| 23 | It is also to be noted that under the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 a person such as a repairer , improver , valuer or storer has the right to sell uncollected goods . |
| 24 | It is also to be noted that in all of the cases above the to infinitive expresses , not a particular happening , but something characteristic of the person referred to . |
| 25 | It is also to be noted that a disposition includes a disposition effected by associated operations ( IHTA 1984 , s272 ) . |
| 26 | It is also to be found in most of the region 's universities , polytechnics and colleges and in many schools aswell as in the British Library in London . |
| 27 | It is just to be cautious about carrying ideas far beyond the regimes in which they have currently been tested . |
| 28 | In Latin America other schools of thought have arisen , such as those of Masi and Orthega , but it is yet to be demonstrated that they are any more effective than the guidelines laid down by Hahnemann in the sixth edition of his Organon of Rational Healing . |
| 29 | It is yet to be seen what commitment Darlington health authority will make to day to day staffing and running costs . |
| 30 | It is hardly to be expected that it would be otherwise . |