Example sentences of "be [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the units to be withdrawn were expected to be sent to join US forces in the Gulf region . |
| 2 | The practical transfer function is very close to unity for the required direct component of the potential difference if low-loss reactors are incorporated yet is very tiny at the ripple frequency if is made very small compared with the ripple pulsatance ( 200π for full-wave rectification , since the ripple to be smoothed is at twice the mains frequency ) . |
| 3 | Screening for disorders in which the clinical course can not be altered is generally avoided : a programme of newborn screening for disorders like Duchenne muscular dystrophy could therefore create an ethical nightmare . |
| 4 | Would the contribution which they make relative to each other be altered were the characteristics of the boundary between them less marked , no trees , no substantial hedge ? |
| 5 | Would the contribution made by this land on either side of this boundary you now propose , be altered were there in fact no marked physical boundary between them ? |
| 6 | Copy posted into a basket could no longer be altered be the sender , only the recipient . |
| 7 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |
| 8 | After all , what he seemed to be suggesting was that a woman with her not inconsiderable sex drive might have been expected , long ago , to have found a man to satisfy it . |
| 9 | What is much less likely to be recognized is the importance of considering the interrelationship between these various initiatives , and certainly there is no sign as yet that such an evaluation is to take place . |
| 10 | Such phyla so persist because the only way they can be recognized is by reference to themselves . |
| 11 | As Task 55 suggests , another way in which discourse type can be recognized is by title . |
| 12 | What must be recognized is that in approaching different collections , different users at different periods in time will place varying requirements on a scheme , both in terms of the subjects that should be included and also in terms of the relationships that need to be shown . |
| 13 | The discovery of deaf tutors in a sign language class causes a review of the concept of ‘ the deaf ’ as disabled , since for the first time the student may be in a learning situation where the person whom he feels he should be helping is actually shown to be more competent than he is . |
| 14 | The van the teams will be using is provided by Broxhead motors . |
| 15 | Chorus meanwhile , has already graduated to SVR4 and what SCO will be using is earlier Chorus technology more in keeping with its installed base . |
| 16 | Thus the spelling unit which maps onto the phoneme is not the letter , but the grapheme , and the term we should be using is ‘ grapheme-phoneme rules ’ ( not letter-sound rules ) . |
| 17 | The work to be undertaken is an integration of existing literature , and the development of explanations of how people understand what they read . |
| 18 | Fourthly , in setting out the contract which may be oral or written , the activities to be undertaken are sorted out into individual tasks , and allocated between the worker and the client . |
| 19 | One of the most systematic surveys to be undertaken was that by the Policy Studies Institute ( Brown , 1982 ) . |
| 20 | The most obvious signs that someone might be sniffing are : |
| 21 | Some indication of the disparities to be explained is contained in Table 2.1 . |
| 22 | It is fundamental to causal explanation that comparisons are made between instances where the thing to be explained is present and instances where it is absent . |
| 23 | What needs to be explained is the origin of concentrations of wealth and security or of poverty and deprivation . |
| 24 | To say that effects are events which in a fundamental or standard sense can be explained is to say this : there is a possibility of our finding a proposition which fully answers the question of why they occurred . |
| 25 | The only other chapter to be explained is Chapter 5 " Language and the fictional world " . |
| 26 | Above all , what needs to be explained is how we distinguish between places in a phenomenological space and places in an objective space . |
| 27 | What needs to be explained is , what makes a meaningful use of such phrases possible in regard to ontological existents , and such explanation can not be provided without a detailed analysis of the problem of relations and of the concept of objectivity . |
| 28 | What has to be explained is why in the long-term stagnant economies the innovators do not turn their hands to productive capital accumulation ( or , for that matter , to the mobilisation of political forces , though this would not be Baran 's argument ) . |
| 29 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 30 | Another feature which has to be explained is the emplacement of massive granite intrusions of various ages which cover about 464 000 km 2 ( about 15 per cent ) of the surface of the range ; this probably represents a volume in excess of 2x106km 3 — the greatest mass of granite intrusions on Earth . |