Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They may be said to be exercising an administrative function . |
| 32 | There are those today who may be said to be living as though Pentecost had never taken place . |
| 33 | Though we have not yet attained a full system of compulsory registration , we may be said to be moving , surely and at an increasing pace , in that direction . |
| 34 | The dealer who supplies an expert system may be deemed to be supplying a service ( that is , providing the advice available from the system ) even though others , such as the experts who provided the knowledge used in the system and the makers of the system , are responsible ( in a non-legal sense ) for how the system operates . |
| 35 | However , if he is a currency speculator he may be found to be trading in currencies and as he resides in the United Kingdom it would be very difficult to show that the trade was carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 36 | Now the police authorities a and the local authorities and the magistrates may be thought to be indulging in special preening , but I do assure Your Lordships that they really are not alone in expressing their anxieties er about the er er er this bill and what it proposes , for example , if I may , I would like to refer to a letter which I received from Justice , chaired by my Noble Friend Lord Alexander of and with his Vice-chairman er er Lord and er they say as an all-party human rights organisation , Justice considers that the composition of police authorities is an important constitutional issue effecting the independence of policing . |
| 37 | A salesman whose last two months ' returns fall below the required norm may be thought to be failing , until one knows that this is the first time that it has happened in five years . |
| 38 | Concern has been expressed that the ordinary principles of criminal liability will draw into the net other non-violent demonstrators who may be considered to be assisting or encouraging the conduct in question and that unless such people leave the scene quickly they might face the serious charge of riot . |
| 39 | Thus the numerical solutions themselves may be considered to be approaching an equilibrium or periodic solution . |
| 40 | In general … rejection appears to increase with the development of disability and the continuation of caring … only a handful of these disabled mothers would be said to be receiving tending in a context which was predominantly loving … |
| 41 | With openness , one could argue that the Institute would be seen to be discharging its obligations under statutory regulation and its charter . |
| 42 | If it 's a small discharge and say it 's twice the limits , three times the limits , then it would be considered to be needing improvement . |
| 43 | If something had to be labelled with this vogue word ‘ citizenship ’ , they no doubt felt that the more they included in their responses , the better they would be thought to be discharging the task of citizenship education . |
| 44 | The company shall be presumed to be carrying on its business as a going concern . |
| 45 | Why do the parties provide that the auditors " shall be considered to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators " ? |
| 46 | The following persons will be presumed to be acting in concert with other persons in the same category : |
| 47 | The statue of Henry VIII which has pride of place above the gate will be seen to be holding a chair leg . |
| 48 | The Notes to Rule 9.1 expand on some of the circumstances in which persons will be deemed to be acting in concert for the purposes of Rule 9 ( see paras 8.4.5 and 8.4.6 below ) . |
| 49 | However , syphilis is a systemic infection and , if the treponeme is looked for , it will be found to be affecting many different organs in the body , from the liver to the lungs and the brain to the bones . |
| 50 | If the young daughters of women with gonorrhoea are examined some 5 per cent will be found to be suffering from a gonococcal vulva-vaginitis . |
| 51 | Since the new forms of treatment set up have not reduced the demand for state hospital admissions and the alternatives so far devised have not guaranteed more cost-effective services , the move into the community can be seen to be reaching a critical stage of development . |
| 52 | The individual can be seen to be struggling to reconcile these two states . |
| 53 | As the NHS enters the 1990s , its organisation can be seen to be undergoing a ‘ third wave ’ of change . |
| 54 | That way you can be seen to be doing a good job and will have more opportunity for improving your pay and possibly being promoted . |
| 55 | Because they can be seen to be playing ball and yet benefit . |
| 56 | Thus Lucas can be seen to be estimating a regression for each country in which that country 's deviation of real output from its natural level is regressed on its own lagged value and Lucas 's measure of the unpredictable and therefore unanticipated component of aggregate demand . |
| 57 | Distributors and retailers selling " own brand " goods can be liable if they can be said to be holding themselves out to be the producer . |
| 58 | ( Whether old people living in residential homes can be said to be living in the community is a separate issue , some aspects of which are considered in Chapter 7 . ) |
| 59 | Joan can be said to be responding to Carol 's relatively heavy use of Creole by increasing the " Creole feature rating " of her own utterances : thus the two " negotiate a language " which is identifiable as " Creole " or " Patois " by virtue of there being Creole features in the speech of all parties , though to differing degrees . |
| 60 | A major question posed is the extent to which the professional bodies , including the Engineering Council and the institutions , can be said to be performing a mediating role between the members of the profession and the government ; that is representing the memberships ' interests while also entering into agreements with the government which are likely to limit their members ' freedom of action . |