Example sentences of "to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 2 | The myths that Barthes refers to are contemporary and different from the myths that interest the anthropologist . |
| 3 | In the above examples , the topics referred to are certain meanings , and meanings , as we saw , do not qualify as ontological existents in any case . |
| 4 | But most of the factors this account points to are real and important , as we shall now detail . |
| 5 | The plans referred to are short-term plans for periods of from one week to one month . |
| 6 | They are unfit to look after such vulnerable people and some of the conditions these people are subjected to are appalling . ’ |
| 7 | That these two expressions relating to are equivalent is easily verified since it requires or The validity of this last relation is best seen by appreciating that , according to equations ( 9.1 ) and ( 9.2 ) , the characteristic impedances obey and Making use of equations ( 9.1 ) and ( 9.5 ) and writing the ratio as u , it follows from equations ( 9.3 ) and ( 9.4 ) that the transfer function of a T or Π-section of the form of ladder filter under consideration is given by In general u and hence will be complex and it is helpful at this juncture to put where γ is known as the propagation constant . |
| 8 | But the new-look candidates he pointed to are virtual unknowns . |
| 9 | None of my friends have children and all the mother-and-toddler groups I have been to are full of older mums . |
| 10 | Lothian Regional Council considers that the findings referred to are unreliable and based on false or unsound interpretations of Structure Plan policies and the nature of the land supply . |
| 11 | In French elles is used only when all the persons or things referred to are feminine ; if one or more persons or things in a group are masculine the form used is ils , even if the feminine referents outnumber the masculine ones . |
| 12 | ‘ Guitarists I listen to are classical and pseudo jazz-classical players . |
| 13 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 14 | For example , the choice of a passive rather than an active is influenced both by whether the things referred to are animate or inanimate and by what the basic theme of the speaker 's current discourse currently is ( Harris , 1977 ; 1978 ) . |
| 15 | The people you dealt the guns to are findable . |
| 16 | He wore a bow tie , a corduroy jacket , and suede shoes and appeared to Millet to be well-distanced from any workshop floor . |
| 17 | The teacher 's conduct has to be obscene or criminal before sterner measures are employed . |
| 18 | … an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect … is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt … |
| 19 | an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely , having regard to all the relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it . |
| 20 | Some earlier critics of the deprave-and-corrupt test had suggested a return to a test based on ‘ outrage ’ , with the Longford Report proposing in 1972 that an article might be deemed to be obscene ‘ if its effect , taken as a whole , is to outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large ’ . |
| 21 | They declared the video to be obscene , confiscated it and imposed an on-the-spot fine on my friend . |
| 22 | No pornographer has ever been punished for being a woman-hater. but not too long ago information about female sexuality , contraception and abortion was assumed to be obscene . |
| 23 | She drove slowly in Conterchi so as not to miss the turning and Italians hooted at her or raised their fingers in gestures she knew to be obscene . |
| 24 | GUIL : ( Shaking with rage and fright ) It could have been — it did n't have to be obscene … |
| 25 | Jessica was tempted to be obscene , but fought it back . |
| 26 | The complete statutory definition of obscenity is contained in s1 of the Obscene Publications Act : For the purposes of this Act an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely , in all the circumstances , to read , see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it . |
| 27 | This recommendation was duly embodied in the 1959 statute , which provided that " an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt … |
| 28 | The fact is that any so called sport which involves the exhaustion , distress and eventual death of an animal has got to be obscene in the eyes of any human being . |
| 29 | There are some observers who think this to be admirable ; but there are others who believe that in such cases the basic obligations that should keep such enthusiasts at home have been obscured by pretension and sentimentality . |
| 30 | But that is a very different matter from the exegetically unjustified expedient adopted by some modern students of mission , of divorcing the Spirit from Jesus , evading the scandal of his particularity , and attributing to the Spirit 's agency whatever seems to them to be admirable in the beliefs and practice of other faiths . |