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 | What I principally object to are all our dreary , smug books about growing up and coming to terms with oneself , that … are merely another brand of conformity … . |
| 3 | Major and minor chords of four notes arranged thus , chromatically from to are all possible and effective . |
| 4 | The myths that Barthes refers to are contemporary and different from the myths that interest the anthropologist . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But most of the factors this account points to are real and important , as we shall now detail . |
| 7 | The plans referred to are short-term plans for periods of from one week to one month . |
| 8 | They are unfit to look after such vulnerable people and some of the conditions these people are subjected to are appalling . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But the new-look candidates he pointed to are virtual unknowns . |
| 11 | None of my friends have children and all the mother-and-toddler groups I have been to are full of older mums . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Guitarists I listen to are classical and pseudo jazz-classical players . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As Leonard commented in Police Gazette , ‘ I 'd rather sleep with ashes than with priestly wisdom , ’ which has even more point when we understand that the ashes referred to are those of the victims of the Holocaust . |
| 17 | The other group of music papers which aspiring acts should look to are those catering to some very specific style and its devoted audience . |
| 18 | The other market for CICS/2 may do something — the company hopes to sell it to are those businesses ‘ upsizing ’ their applications . |
| 19 | The idea that the features of a dialect which are accommodated to are those which are most salient , and that those which are most salient from the point of view of a LE speaker are just those which are most different from LE , fits perfectly with the observation that young black speakers in " chattin' Patois " are focusing on the Jamaican basilect — the variety which is most different from Standard . |
| 20 | When we talk about black holes , what we are really referring to are these gravitational fields . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | The people you dealt the guns to are findable . |
| 23 | He wore a bow tie , a corduroy jacket , and suede shoes and appeared to Millet to be well-distanced from any workshop floor . |
| 24 | The teacher 's conduct has to be obscene or criminal before sterner measures are employed . |
| 25 | … 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 … |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | They declared the video to be obscene , confiscated it and imposed an on-the-spot fine on my friend . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |