Example sentences of "what [be] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even what are supposed to be working-class interests , are often led and dominated by the middle class , as has frequently been observed . |
| 2 | We must suppose that an individual 's experience of past events of a similar kind will equip him with expectations , hypotheses , about what are likely to be relevant aspects of context . |
| 3 | Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event . |
| 4 | For lone mothers the aim is to encourage more employment , with what are likely to be low earnings from part-time jobs supplemented by both means-tested benefits ( especially family credit ) and child support ( as discussed above , with a £15 disregard ) . |
| 5 | What are likely to be the most effective methods by which bureaucracies can be made democratically responsible ? |
| 6 | The confusion arose between the subsequent press briefings given by the hon. and learned Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) , the Minister of State , Foreign and Commonwealth Office , and the Prime Minister 's statements about what were likely to be the maximum number of warheads on the Trident programme . |
| 7 | In the first of what were likely to be several criminal prosecutions resulting from the collapse of the Lincoln , Keating was convicted of misleading small investors over the sale of junk bonds — high-risk , high-yield securities — in American Continental Corp. , of which the Lincoln was a subsidiary . |
| 8 | For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd dearly like to know what were supposed to be achieving , that 's all , ’ Lambert bitched . |
| 10 | The central allegation in what 's certain to be a bitterly contested case , is that B A has a monopoly based on its dominance of Heathrow , which it 's abusing in a bid to force Virgin out of the market for transatlantic travel . |
| 11 | And this is their reward on what 's likely to be their last full scale exercise before amalgamation next year . |
| 12 | " What 's supposed to be wrong with it ? " |
| 13 | my Lord my Lord I do n't understand what 's supposed to be meant by malign or bad , it 's concerned with appreciable and appreciable and er something which has an appreciable or a more audane minimize impact upon the competition if it arise erm here perhaps because it , it is er a question of fairness but not normally |
| 14 | What 's supposed to be so attractive about it |
| 15 | Yeah just er , you know what 's supposed to be missing do n't you ? |
| 16 | What 's supposed to be good for you ? |
| 17 | Today , Linfield are back in Europe pending what is certain to be a fruitless appeal by Dinamo to UEFA on Monday . |
| 18 | They had been working about a mile along a blind underground roadway , ending at what is due to be a new coal face , when the roof fell in 500 yards behind them . |
| 19 | " Well , I will let you in , " said Baba Yaga 's daughter , " and we will think what is best to be done . " |
| 20 | Spanish manager Jabier Clemente is set to recall some of his more experienced stars for what is sure to be a closely-contested affair . |
| 21 | But we are bound to ask what is supposed to be essential about it . |
| 22 | Finally , at a time when the demand for public accountability has never been greater , it is worth remembering that many museums receive substantial grants towards what is supposed to be their educational provision for the general public . |
| 23 | The Soviets : on Gen Keightley 's right flank , Macmillan goes on : " Marshal Tolbukhin 's armies have spread out into what is supposed to be the British Zone in Austria , including the important city and road centre of Graz . |
| 24 | There is no doubt that a bill or note given in consideration of what is supposed to be a debt is without consideration if it appears that there was a mistake in fact as to the existence of the debt ; Bell v. Gardiner ( 4 M. & Gr. 11 ) ; and , according to the cases of Southall v. Rigg and Forman v. Wright ( 11 C.B. 481 ) , the law is the same if the bill or note is given in consequence of a mistake of law as to the existence of a debt . |
| 25 | On the one hand by 1983 the straight-forward expansionist strategy has been virtually abandoned , but on the other side the French authorities are striving to sustain an active supply-side policy to prevent the fabric of industry being destroyed during what is supposed to be a temporary period of demand restraint caused by international financial problems . |
| 26 | If , for example , a shy child has been very quiet in what is supposed to be a television interview , a positive way of dealing with it is to acknowledge it as something that has happened within the dramatic fiction : " Most of us would get very nervous being interviewed for TV ; I know I would . |
| 27 | Secondly , what is supposed to be happening to the level of money wages following the increase in the money supply ? |
| 28 | Last month they held Brazil 0-0 in Sao Paulo and tonight they field what is likely to be their World Cup team , including the fast and skilful Skoro and the experienced Stojkovic , bound for Marseilles . |
| 29 | Of course , the appropriate behaviour here depends on what is likely to be going on when no set of bindings seems plausible to the reasoner . |
| 30 | Indeed , it is probably more practical not to do things the standard way as this avoids what is likely to be severe over-kill for do-it-yourself applications . |