Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] be [adj] " in BNC.

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31 The relevant circumstance for purposes of the comparison required by section 5(3) to be made is expected unavailability at the material time ( p 30 ) .
32 The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great .
33 Another area where progress remained to be made was indirect taxation — specifically Value Added Tax ( VAT ) and excise duties .
34 Most assessment procedures are developed in order to provide a particular kind of interpretation and because of this the criteria against which the child 's language will be evaluated are implicit in the procedure .
35 Discussions of how the relative strength of States should be evaluated were common , but none of their authors succeeded in finding a clear or universally applicable solution to the problem .
36 The necessity for the function to be characterised as ‘ judicial ’ before procedural constraints would be imposed was integral to this approach , because only bodies exercising such functions would be suited to adjudicative procedures .
37 No further information on institution to be attended was available for the remaining three students .
38 The land over which the question was to be decided was heathy , with scrub alternating with marsh in the valley .
39 Bright clear days when the Alps can be seen are rare , ( and the more pleasurable for being so ) , and if you want such days you had better come in spring or autumn when the heat haze is reduced .
40 To let the fastening buckle be seen is social suicide .
41 But , if the entire republic is slowly being submerged , individual citizens can not afford to ignore their collective fate because , in the end , they all drown together if nothing is done ; and again , as with Venice , what needs to be done is far beyond the powers of any one individual .
42 The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones .
43 Many have written on testing prophecy and really what needs to be done is common sense .
44 The demands for something to be done were strong and understandable .
45 All that remains to be said is Happy Christmas and good wishes for a New Knitting Year !
46 If it requires that the person to be taxed is resident in the United Kingdom that condition of residence would not be satisfied if one or more of the trustees is not resident in the United Kingdom .
47 Turning things over at random and hoping to stumble on the sought object usually works when the space to be searched is small .
48 Choosing the directories to be searched is simple .
49 Whether such finance will be made available and how it might be channelled are major themes in subsequent chapters .
50 During the nineteenth century to be noticed was good fortune , while to be praised was a professional advantage .
51 The marked change in Sherman 's demeanour when he realized that his request was not going to be granted was dramatic .
52 The question of how goals are to be met is independent of the statement of the goals themselves .
53 There was not , however , much discussion on the overall needs of the disabled , and research into how the needs could best be met was minimal .
54 As with all other aspects of capitalist society , however , local variations in the interpretation of these two roles and the institutional framework within which they can be operated are normal .
55 The first symptoms which may be felt are hot flushes , night sweats , general anxiety and irritability , loss of self-esteem , insomnia , mood changes , poor memory , loss of confidence , loss of interest in sex and even formication ( the feeling of insects crawling just underneath or on top of the skin , probably caused by changes in the nerve endings ) .
56 The inference to be drawn is obvious ; regrouping is necessary and the longer the fateful day of decision is delayed , the greater the likelihood that the established geoscience groups will capture those limited resources .
57 In both cases , the conditions under which liquor may be sold are subject to the provisions of subs .
58 People buying shares in British Telecommunications Plc will be able to deal in shares by punching the keys on a normal push-button telephone : the retail investment company ShareLink Ltd said the service , the first such scheme in Europe , is being offered as part of the marketing campaign for BT3 , the UK government 's sale of a third tranche of British Telecom shares , marketing of which began yesterday ; the system will later be extended to cover other shares ; the government 's remaining shares are to be sold in July ; pricing and details of whether all the remaining 21.8% stake will be sold are due in June .
59 The terms which are to be used are likely to be specified , and synonyms recognized and probably eliminated ( for example , Packaging may be indicated as preferable to Wrapping ) .
60 It is clear that a comprehensive review of both the variables to be included in the deprivation index and the level of disaggregation to be used is necessary and Hobcraft 's call for more work in this area in chapter 9 , is timely .
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