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

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31 Net fluid transport was considered to be equal to changes in the intestinal weight , which was continuously monitored by connecting the force transducer to a Grass polygraph .
32 The history of the imposition of obligations without compensation has been to push that point progressively further on and to add to the list of requirements considered to be essential to the well-being of the community .
33 The detailed life cycle is not fully known , but is considered to be similar to that of the bovine lungworm , D. viviparus , except in the following respects .
34 He was over-ambitious in his programme of opening new branches ; he installed a new computer system costing $100000 which many considered to be inferior to the previous manual system ; and he imposed a rigid form of hands-on management without a fair distribution of equity .
35 Then , again , and in this they point ahead to the invention of collage , the letters and numerals stress the material existence of the painting in another way : by applying to a canvas or sheet of paper letters , other pieces of paper or fragments of glass and tin — elements generally considered to be foreign to the technique of painting or drawing — the artist makes the spectator conscious of the canvas , panel or paper as a material object capable of receiving and supporting other objects .
36 for these re ; sons , the Focused model is considered to be superior to the Shotgun model .
37 The presence of an attachment figure is considered to be vital to the emotional and social survival of the individual , and when attachments are threatened or removed in any way it can lead to intense forms of attachment behaviour , such as clinging , crying and extreme grief .
38 Time and resources spent on music , therefore , may be considered to be disproportionate to its importance in the life of the community .
39 The thrombi are considered to be secondary to local injury , stasis or cor-pulmonale .
40 This conduct is considered to be common to all states , irrespective of their domestic political arrangements .
41 It remained unclear to many analysts , however , whether the " no " vote was a rejection of demilitarization , or the expression of general uncertainty about the preservation of national sovereignty , given that Endara owed his installation in office to the December 1989 US military invasion of the country [ see pp. 37112-13 ] and that his government was widely considered to be subservient to US interests in the region .
42 China and Taiwan are reported to be close to agreement on joint development of a centre for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste .
43 Negotiations were reported to be close to reaching agreement on the sale of the empty Cummins factory in Yarm Road , Darlington .
44 The prevalence rate of hypercholesterolaemia in diabetics has been reported to be similar to the non-diabetic population , that is from 8 per cent to as high as 52 per cent ( Hayes , 1972 ) .
45 His successor was named as Kerim Aydin Erdem , who was reported to be sympathetic to the Islamic faction .
46 Her or his rights before the law are , for example , deemed to be equal to those of a company director .
47 In a sense , repressing all that was deemed to be inimical to the regime was the " easy " part of the task of consolidating the result of the Civil War .
48 It should also be remembered that s 19(l) ( a ) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 provides that where there is a covenant , condition or agreement against assigning , underletting , charging or parting with possession of the premises or any part thereof without licence or consent , this is deemed to be subject to a proviso to the effect that such licence or consent is not to be unreasonably withheld .
49 By the Land Registration Act 1925 ( s70(1) ) : All registered land shall … be deemed to be subject to such of the following overriding interests as may be for the time being subsisting in reference thereto .
50 The early animal links were therefore retained either in the god 's shape , in the attributes assigned to him , or in his association with certain animals deemed to be sacred to him .
51 For example , a term prohibiting making a back-up copy in a pre-1993 agreement will not be made invalid by reason of the changes brought about by the regulations even if the making of a back-up copy is deemed to be necessary to the lawful use of the program .
52 There is no uniform or objective way of reporting events in all their detail , exactly as they happen in the real world ; the structure of each language highlights , and to a large extent preselects , certain areas which are deemed to be fundamental to the reporting of any experience .
53 The fate of UK telecommunications equipment manufacturers may also hang on the decision : if the UK market deemed to be open to US suppliers , the US government could decide to waive its penalties against UK suppliers .
54 This was an attempt by a local authority to object to the level of grant it was deemed to be entitled to from the central government .
55 Social control performs the function of defining those acts that are deemed to be harmful to the society .
56 This occurs when individuals ' act in a way they know is destined to be hurtful to other members of the family , who , in response , reciprocate with actions they know will cause even more distress .
57 The service is specially priced to be affordable to domestic users .
58 This will take the form of Preliminary Training ; a core part in the new Module 20 which has been expanded to last one and a half days followed by a written assessment with a pass mark of 75% ; and Specialist Training — both on and off the job which has been tailored to be appropriate to the area that the prospective RPS will be working in .
59 The enterprise of attempting to specify exhaustively the range of possible surface variants of a variable is thus argued to be irrelevant to a satisfying and explanatory account of syntactic variation .
60 He had obviously decided to be pleasant to her .
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