Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] be [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Examples would be where the witness can be shown to be unreliable , biased or prejudiced . |
| 32 | The police car can be said to be represented as a " welcome sight " , and there is therefore a reference to the time before its appearance which is not present in the sentence with the subordinate clause . |
| 33 | The induction in the core is magnified by the high permeability , except in the saturation regions where the result can be seen to be a trapezoidal induction waveform ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 34 | It requires the cooperation of every citizen , and no law which unreasonably infringes the freedoms of that citizen can be expected to be effective . |
| 35 | Yet , as Mary Ainsworth ( 1969 ) points out in relation to the concept of attachment between mother and child ( monkeys included ) , a mental or physiological condition can be said to be present even when it is not visible in behaviour . |
| 36 | This is a remarkable development and leads to a sharp distinction according to whether the alleged improper trading practice can be shown to be within the purview of the Treaty as affecting ‘ trade between member states . ’ |
| 37 | It is otherwise where the employee can be considered to be part of the " brains " of the company , ie sufficiently senior for his acts to be regarded as those of the company . |
| 38 | Very ordinary people ( or at least ordinary men ) could afford to attend a performance of a Shakespeare play in the large Globe Theatre , and appear to have done so , and the same play might be requested to be performed at court . |
| 39 | This is especially likely to be the case with short essays and exam answers , where you clearly can not be expected to be " original " in the sense in which a researcher or expert in the field might be expected to be . |
| 40 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 41 | Since the function of such a court is solely judicial and in no way administrative , the rule which precludes interest or bias on the part of the judge may be expected to be enforced more , rather than less , strictly than in the case of a licensing board , which is primarily an administrative body . |
| 42 | The courts have developed some complex tests based on control whereby the subsidiary may be deemed to be an agent of the parent company . |
| 43 | The final effect of temperature on timing error may be expected to be in the region of 1000ppm per degree maximum which corresponds to approximately 1½ minutes per degree in the finished circuit . |
| 44 | There is a readily identified ‘ central government interest ’ within the state of destination where considerations of sovereignty may be seen to be involved and where some knowledge of the nature of the documents is necessary if the state of destination is to be sure that its public policy ( e.g. as to bank secrecy ) is not offended . |
| 45 | However , such a mental exercise may be found to be of more benefit to him than could any rules , and as such may not be such a bad thing . |
| 46 | The firm 's independence may be thought to be compromised because of the fee arrangements or because of the relationship with the client . |
| 47 | The firm 's independence may be thought to be compromised because of the fee arrangements or because of the relationship with the client . |
| 48 | Even drinking in a public bar may be considered to be solitary if the principal reason for doing so is the consumption of alcohol rather than for specific social contact . |
| 49 | One of our informants cynically suggested ( though in fact with reference to the concept for Multicultural Education ) that ‘ permeation is a word used to indicate that the institution believes the issue should be seen to be addressed without wishing to provide administrative support for such addressing ’ . |
| 50 | Land reform is one of the crucial ( and most controversial ) matters facing the newly elected Hungarian parliament and present law must be considered to be ephemeral . |
| 51 | The current definition of unfitness ( under the Housing Act 1957 ) lists nine items in which a dwelling must be found to be ‘ reasonably suitable for occupation … ’ . |
| 52 | Distinctions between errors within and errors going to jurisdiction should be discarded ; any error of law should be held to be jurisdictional if the case depended upon it . |
| 53 | All these assumptions and practical problems concerning the breath H 2 test have been discussed in detail by Bond and Levitt and Levitt et al who suggest that ‘ quantitative data of the breath H 2 test should be considered to be estimates of malabsorption of fermented material rather than precise quantitative measurements of polysaccharide malabsorption ’ . |
| 54 | ‘ But you said that morality must be seen to be something superficial . ’ |
| 55 | It is important to note that the Act does not require all landowners to fence against the highway : in moorland areas of Wales and the north of England this would be an intolerable burden and in such areas a motorist must be expected to be on the look out for straying livestock . |
| 56 | This is put forward as an alternative basis on which the transfer should be held to be void . |
| 57 | The intention behind Mrs Whitehouse 's actions was not that Bogdanov should be punished , but that the values and beliefs espoused by the NVALA should be seen to be supported , to be successfully and , above all , publicly defended from attack . |
| 58 | The first is that there may well be disagreement as to whether , on analytical grounds , a question should be deemed to be one of law or fact . |
| 59 | Resource management must be demonstrated to be linked to a client orientation , hence the criticality of involving users in specifying care and quality parameters . |
| 60 | So is the cold war giant , at least in the sense that a mighty military machine with no visible threat to its well-being might be said to be dead . |