Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | This combination can not be expected to be homogeneous to start with . |
| 34 | Second-hand goods can not be expected to be perfect . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic . |
| 37 | ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic . |
| 38 | The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid . |
| 39 | which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the person to whom it is applied . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios . |
| 42 | A decision will not be held to be unlawful because it is ‘ unreasonable ’ in the ordinary , non-legal sense . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | The traditional view is that there is no age below which a child can not be held to be guilty of contributory negligence . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Yet this is a ability rather than a benefit , and on these grounds the trust can not be held to be valid . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | That can not be judged to be fair or equitable . ’ |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | To this end the purchasing department can usually be expected to be responsible for the following : |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | In poetry this minimum may always be assumed to be present but that is not true of the making of images . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | The metric tensor can always be chosen to be symmetric under interchange of its subscripts . |
| 57 | No area of the law can ever be said to be easy but the legislation dealing with obscene and indecent publications seems to be unduly complicated . |
| 58 | Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt . |
| 59 | Instead it turns out to be very much concerned with rhetoric , which can hardly be said to be new for this age or even essentially syntactic . |
| 60 | The development of computer-based public access systems to the holdings of one or more libraries , together with advances in online bibliographic searching , have increasingly led to the use of CAI programmes for user training , yet use of CAI programmes can hardly be said to be widespread . |