Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would recognise , too , that industrial democracy can not be conjured into being overnight , no more than was political democracy , no more than was the joint stock company as the common expression of industrial capitalism . |
| 32 | It tends to present in elderly people , who may not be known to be diabetic . |
| 33 | One group that was frequently excluded was the poor — those who could not be guaranteed to be able to pay their own funeral expenses . |
| 34 | NEIL RUDDOCK leads out Spurs at champions Leeds tonight and will not be fined after being sent-off against Crystal Palace on Saturday . |
| 35 | For Income Support the claimant will not be required to be available for employment during that eight-week period . |
| 36 | The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts . |
| 37 | At the same time , a vuggy porosity was also created in the lower unit of carbonate mudstones but this was found to have resulted from the dissolution of patches and veins of replacement halite ( Fig. 29b and c ) and as such can not be expected to be present away from the areas where replacement has occurred . |
| 38 | This combination can not be expected to be homogeneous to start with . |
| 39 | Second-hand goods can not be expected to be perfect . |
| 40 | As it stands , the crucial implication of these findings , if they are correct , is that increasing the availability of support for people with adverse living circumstances in an attempt to prevent depression would not be expected to be effective . |
| 41 | ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic . |
| 42 | ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic . |
| 43 | The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid . |
| 44 | which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the person to whom it is applied . |
| 45 | which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the colour , race , nationality or ethnic origins of the person to whom it is applied . |
| 46 | The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios . |
| 47 | A decision will not be held to be unlawful because it is ‘ unreasonable ’ in the ordinary , non-legal sense . |
| 48 | Pickets handing out leaflets to passers by may thereby cause harassment , alarm or distress , but they should not be held to be guilty of an offence on that account alone . |
| 49 | The traditional view is that there is no age below which a child can not be held to be guilty of contributory negligence . |
| 50 | The Chief Justice did however stress that a by-law would not be held to be unreasonable simply because a particular judge thought that it went further than was prudent or necessary or convenient . |
| 51 | Yet this is a ability rather than a benefit , and on these grounds the trust can not be held to be valid . |
| 52 | And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence . |
| 53 | That can not be judged to be fair or equitable . ’ |
| 54 | In any case , the ideology of the RCC was that women should not be treated exactly the same as men : women are human beings , and therefore equal to men , but they are also more delicate , more beautiful and gentler — they are like flowers , and should not be compelled to be manlike and false to their nature . |
| 55 | The position I have tried to adopt is that whilst the atheist must demand clarity , the theist can argue that the nature of his or her task necessitates a use of language that is bound to be criticised as unusual , although it can not be allowed to be contradictory . |
| 56 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 57 | To this end the purchasing department can usually be expected to be responsible for the following : |
| 58 | Peter Carter-Ruck , a leading libel lawyer , said : ‘ All you can say is that it would probably still be held to be defamatory to call someone homosexual today when they 're not . |
| 59 | In poetry this minimum may always be assumed to be present but that is not true of the making of images . |
| 60 | New information is forced to the front as though it were given information , suggesting that a famous writer can always be assumed to be energetic and successful at school . |