Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 121 | A second sense in which the inner-city phonology may be said to be complex is in the incidence of lexical items that have two alternative vowel pronunciations quite distinct phonetically and phonemically from each other . |
| 122 | It is characteristic of fixed capital that it has an assumed lifespan — without taking into account the problem of technological obsolescence — and therefore its replacement may be said to be time-proportional . |
| 123 | On the other hand , there is information which may be said to be external to the company , commonly referred to as market information . |
| 124 | I am not confident that either book may be said to be well-written ; that question , too , could be thought to arise . |
| 125 | Using the condition , the denominator may be shown to be proportional to , which in steady state is strictly positive for . |
| 126 | The danger consists in imagining some essence of Christianity , for example , that , because it may be shown to be immune to scientific criticism today , is assumed always to have existed and therefore , properly understood , is always impervious to criticism . |
| 127 | As Stocking has shown , an innovation may be shown to be effective but not adopted widely , whereas another innovation may not have been demonstrated to be effective yet can become widely accepted in practice . |
| 128 | In some instances an applicaton may be deemed to be bogus after a two-year delay . |
| 129 | With regard to income tax , of course , the danger is that the powers of the protector are such as effectively to make him a trustee in which case the trust may be deemed to be resident in the United Kingdom under FA 1989 , s110 if the settlor when he created the settlement was resident , etc in the United Kingdom . |
| 130 | The hope is that addictive disease of all kinds may be found to be due to a common biochemical dysfunction and that it can therefore be corrected . |
| 131 | In many cases such user may be found to be tax-free because the taxpayer who uses the premises has not received " income " for the purposes of Schedule D , Case I and Case II . |
| 132 | If it could be measured in units related to time , the quantities may be found to be proportional to the distance back in the evolutionary chain to which an individual may revert . |
| 133 | A few patients who are admitted may be found to be unfit for anaesthesia , or it may be decided that their condition is unlikely to respond to surgery . |
| 134 | Alternatively , production arrangements may be designed to be flexible enough to supply target markets in a large number of relatively small and specialised niches , such as in the market for industrial or aviation control systems . |
| 135 | Its task is the Defence of the Realm as a whole , from external and internal dangers arising from attempts of espionage and sabotage , or from actions of persons and organisations whether directed from within or without the country , which may be judged to be subversive of the State . |
| 136 | Its task is the Defence of the Realm as a whole , from external and internal dangers arising from attempts at espionage and sabotage , or from actions of persons and organizations whether directed from within or without the country , which may be judged to be subversive of the State . |
| 137 | assists the Security Service [ M15 , M16 ] in defending the realm against attempts at espionage and sabotage or from the actions of persons and organisations whether directed from within or without the country which may be judged to be subversive to the State . |
| 138 | ( 3 ) A sale by auction may be notified to be subject to a reserve or upset price , and a right to bid may also be reserved expressly by or on behalf of the seller . |
| 139 | Although a court will generally strive to resolve uncertainties and ambiguities so as to give effect to a commercial contract wherever possible ( especially where the agreement is already partly executed ) , uncertainty or ambiguity may lead a court to conclude that the term is too uncertain to be enforceable , and in extreme cases the whole contract may be held to be void . |
| 140 | While people may be held to be responsible for an action they may not always be asked to account for it . |
| 141 | The repercussions of this maleness of the concept of Christ may be thought to be incalculable . |
| 142 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 143 | Thus , in order to distance the law from the many preconceived cultural notions about rape , rapists and rape victims , a new terminology may be thought to be desirable . |
| 144 | Since neither House can by its own declaration create a new privilege , privilege may be considered to be capable of being ascertained and thus judicially known to the courts . |
| 145 | There is no cut-off point above which ‘ churning ’ may be considered to be unacceptable , so clients have to watch their portfolios carefully . |
| 146 | This account of the functioning of the family in modern industrial society may be considered to be defective in a variety of respects . |
| 147 | The gyroscopes associated with Artifical Horizons are subject to errors both in turns and during fore-and-aft acceleration , but for all practical purposes may be considered to be unaffected by the normal manoeuvres experienced in airline operations . |
| 148 | Time and resources spent on music , therefore , may be considered to be disproportionate to its importance in the life of the community . |
| 149 | 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 . |
| 150 | In effect , since energy is the capacity for doing work , all energy may be considered to be stored energy . |