Example sentences of "to be [adj] [conj] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not have the legislation we feel to be necessary nor is the provision adequate to meet all the needs of people with disabilities . |
| 2 | Unless any cash payment is passing which is required by the husband for the purchase of another property , a contract would appear to be unnecessary and is certainly not required if the transaction is to be carried out following a court order ( whether by consent or otherwise ) as application can always be made to the court for the terms of the order to be carried out ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 3 | He is believed to be honest and is known for his involvement in the army-backed project for ‘ Green Esarn ’ . |
| 4 | Yet in an earlier publication , in which the term was first coined , he and his colleagues used it to describe ‘ pain [ which ] ceases to be relieved or is worsened by further administration ’ of morphine or diamorphine ( our italics ) . |
| 5 | As we have seen elsewhere , the wording of statutes tends to be general and is therefore frequently ambiguous ; thus when a case revolves around what a statute actually says , judges have a good deal of discretion which they will exercise according to their view of what the law requires . |
| 6 | However , the theme which deserves more attention is the basic argument of the article : the author is claiming not to be prejudiced and is attributing prejudice to those who oppose the National Front . |
| 7 | There is an increase in risk due to irradiation of the breast , but this is likely to be small and is best estimated from a woman 's age and dose of irradiation . |
| 8 | Pointless samples start every song ; the beat is ridiculously loud and trying to be ravey but is too cluttered and shuffling ; the addition of a backing singer adds little to Peter Hooton 's irritating foghorn voice ; the guitars are still chiming , charmless indie-dance sounds throughout ; they still look like brickies and Peter Hooton still dances like my dad . |
| 9 | I 've written two articles now in a series that 's supposed to be practical and is intended to get you knitting on your ribber and we 've not yet knitted a single row . |
| 10 | This has the advantage that , as the level of prices alters over time , the variance of the logarithm of the price relatives is more likely to be stationary than is the variance of the alternatives . |
| 11 | Until now the Magistrate had been in the position of a scientist who has made a discovery which he knows to be true but is unable to prove . |
| 12 | The Summer Ale is designed to be light and is only about 3.6 per cent alcohol . |
| 13 | A 10ns version is said to be imminent as is a slower , low power version — where the current will be cut to nearly a quarter of the full power version . |
| 14 | Is she actually trying to be disagreeable or is she merely unhappy ? ’ |
| 15 | The cyclic of rise to power and decay of elites is held by Pareto to be inevitable and is explained by the alteration in elites of the proportions of these residues , both of which are necessary for the maintenance of rule . |
| 16 | Temporary workers are rather more likely to be self-employed than is the generality of the labour force . |
| 17 | The unit matrix I is a diagonal matrix of unit elements ; a matrix having all its elements zero is said to be null and is written 0 . |
| 18 | Where once Hammett and Chandler bestrode the world of Californian crime and corruption like colossuses , now private-eyes like Joseph Hansen 's Dave Brandstetter ( who happens to be homosexual but is otherwise completely in the classic pattern ) an Robert B. Parker 's Spenser ( who happens to work in Boston and be a gourmet cook ) work their contemporary beats in almost exactly the old way . |