Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But they could be seen to be so " from below " as well as " from above " . |
| 32 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 33 | Thus , for a short interlude , the religion of the monarch could be said to be neither papist nor Protestant ; and while it was safe to admit to either persuasion , it was wise to support neither too vigorously . |
| 34 | All in all , the technology could be said to be qualitatively transforming the threat to privacy which information systems , even manually sorted card indexes , have always posed . |
| 35 | An SBU was taken to be any subsidiary business interest of the group which could be said to be largely separable and could be treated as having a commercial life of its own . |
| 36 | Whilst any human cost of alcohol abuse could be said to be too great , it is important not to ignore both the economic and the social benefits associated with drinking . |
| 37 | If BA can resell $300m of its United investment — ideally to US citizens - then its remaining equity share could be said to be only 21 per cent , airline officials in New York argue . |
| 38 | In at least one case , Afghanistan , the regime could be said to be fully subordinate to Moscow . |
| 39 | Exhibition mounted on a bright , well illuminated landing , and could be positioned to be clearly visible from the Centre entrance . |
| 40 | The formal decision on industrialisation had already been made at the Fourteenth Party Congress in 1925 ; therefore the Fifteenth Congress could be claimed to be merely a continuation of previous policies . |
| 41 | On the point of commenting scathingly that not everyone could be expected to be as cold-blooded as he was , Gina hesitated , finally deciding that in this case discretion was certainly the better part of valour . |
| 42 | They could be expected to be as obedient to the workers as they had been to the capitalists . |
| 43 | In R v London Borough of Harrow , ex pDeal [ 1989 ] FCR 729 the Court of Appeal confirmed that judicial review would lie if a decision to place a child 's name on the register could be shown to be utterly unreasonable . |
| 44 | But if some existing races could be shown to be closer to the apes than others , would this not prove their inferiority ? |
| 45 | The hypothesis that states pursue their national interest could be shown to be empirically superior to its rivals , thus grounding a Positive science of international relations . |
| 46 | The classic realists could be shown to be just as transgressive and problematic as the modernists . |
| 47 | If crime and deviance could be shown to be vitally necessary then this would be a serious blow indeed to the correctionalist stance — of both positivists and classicists . |
| 48 | He therefore sought to prove both that the structures of history were necessarily dialectical and that the course of actual history could be shown to be so . |
| 49 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 50 | If these could be found to be overwhelmingly large or small then the results could be of use in the framing of policy . |
| 51 | She was implying , plain enough , that no one else could be trusted to be as thorough as herself . |
| 52 | The carapace required almost a year to become fully symbiotic with the body — and its owner required purification , distillation in the alembic of combat before his augmented natural body could be judged to be fully transmuted in spirit as well as in flesh and bone , and thus worthy of donning complete Marine armour … |
| 53 | The London market may be seen to be increasingly dominated by eight firms , five of whom are true international firms — owning and controlling a wide network of offices worldwide — and three local firms . |
| 54 | The difficulty lies in the fact that the edges are blurred and no one is sure just when youth may be said to be past and the second stage of adult life begun . |
| 55 | With a little effort , the transfer function between its input and load resistance R may be shown to be Thus it performs as a third-order Butterworth filter when |
| 56 | The subjectivity of the whole procedure and particularly of this last section was alleviated to some extent by each teacher being observed by more than one member of the Senior Management Team and this aspect of the review may be deemed to be reasonably reliable . |
| 57 | This ‘ may be known to be so by any man 's experience , that will but examine his own mind ’ . |
| 58 | It will not have to be either critical or challenging , although elsewhere in the world , among less fortunate nations , it may be found to be so . |
| 59 | Even the would-be socially superior , the boastful , and the priggish may be found to be quite agreeable people once they have relaxed . |
| 60 | Even for those items that are designated relevant , some may be judged to be highly relevant , whilst others may be regarded as partially or only marginally relevant . |