Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the 14th Century the great revolution of the fulling mill had caused this to be forbidden . |
| 32 | It had grounds for such fears , since it was struggling to legitimize itself as the Palestinian representative and did not wish this to be challenged by any independent local movement . |
| 33 | found this to be so , and demonstrated also that the latent inhibition produced by brief exposure to the odour was unaffected by contextual change . |
| 34 | Changes in stimulus distinctiveness might , indeed , be in part responsible for the development of different patterns of overt behaviour to the different training stimuli , but the mere fact that discrimination learning occurs can not prove this to be so . |
| 35 | The account of acquired distinctiveness supplied by mediation theory ( Fig. 5.10 ) requires that each target stimulus become associated with some different event , and a reliable correlation between each stimulus and its outcome is needed for this to be established . |
| 36 | I want all this to be in the open , to be accepted , I want truth to be told . |
| 37 | Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon , and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments , it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all . |
| 38 | Henry looked at the pages of script he had written in praise of the man he had helped on the way to eternal bliss , and found this to be true . |
| 39 | And in order for this to be possible , he must be able also to show that he understands what he has learned . |
| 40 | But for this to be achieved there are problems which must be overcome . |
| 41 | Consider this to be not a failure but an accolade . |
| 42 | Unfortunately , they are sometimes too short of money for this to be possible . |
| 43 | The care of elderly people will not inevitably deteriorate in the future , but the potential for this to be the case underlines the importance of close monitoring of the impact of Working for Patients on the future quality of the National Health Service . |
| 44 | For this to be fair , they should investigate the conflict in depth , trying to persuade the parties to bury the hatchet and work constructively together . |
| 45 | Indeed , one planning department considered this to be its most important role . |
| 46 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
| 47 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 48 | The Office of Works considered this to be too expensive in land acquisition and Burton then prepared another scheme , which was confined to Crown land , retained Fludyer 's house and No. 15 , and had a wing extending along the south side of Downing Street . |
| 49 | Given this to be so , under the influence of the new analyses ( of poverty and of the youth labour-market ) , it was appreciated that the critical features of the youth question were not only those relating to church attendance , unorganized leisure , absence of esprit de corps and , at the extreme end of the spectrum of anxiety , juvenile delinquency . |
| 50 | Although , in years to come , these might prove to be of social interest , many such letters refer only to domestic and personal trivia and , having personally recently discovered a letter written to me over 30 years ago by my wife just before we were married , I would not want this to be read by anyone else at all . |
| 51 | In the final analysis , they may recommend specific courses of action including destroying all your credit cards and even your cheque book , if they believe this to be necessary . |
| 52 | However , crude calculations of the cost per QALY gained from cataract extraction show this to be a high value for money procedure ( Drummond , 1988 ) . |
| 53 | He held this to be valid even though the condition could mean a restriction on a use which would not amount to development . |
| 54 | It is popular to believe that managers are responsible for developing their people but closer examination reveals this to be a nonsense . |
| 55 | A procedure does not exist in isolation from its surroundings , and Procedure Audit requires this to be acknowledged explicitly . |
| 56 | How was this to be construed ? |
| 57 | ( 25 ) If someone who has been instructed to construct a building is prepared to give the money to the town for it to do so itself , since the testator wished this to be done by that person himself , his plea will not be heard : so ruled the late emperor Marcus in a rescript . |
| 58 | So I will claim this to be the lowest speed of any commercial prerecorded ‘ two-minute ’ cylinder , which ran for the best part of four minutes now . |
| 59 | The information available shows this to be the scarcest of the three diver species recorded in Sussex . |
| 60 | The most recent survey was that organised by the British Trust for Ornithology in 1955 , which recorded c. 100 pairs ; des Forges and Harber considered this to be an underestimate . |