Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's it 's on the basis that any employer has a duty of care to employees and what I mean by that is that er an employer has a responsibility to not work employers er er employees under conditions that that are known to be unsafe . |
| 2 | They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes . |
| 3 | More instances that this are required to be certain that the possible parts of speech of the word are found . |
| 4 | For even at the generally modest level of competition that Beckenham offers , the British are shown to be dismal failures . |
| 5 | Of these , 371,000 were thought to be Protestant , 271,000 Catholic and 5,000 Jews . |
| 6 | Untranslated sequences upstream of the coding regions 1 and 2 were found to be unrelated , and attempts to identify transcripts that contain linked 1 and 2 sequences by library screening or through RT-PCR experiments were unsuccessful ( data not shown ) . |
| 7 | Each appears to be bound in a very pale and supple leather ( on inspection this is seen to be Human skin ) . |
| 8 | This is believed to be due to the complex organization of their centre-surround mechanisms . |
| 9 | This is believed to be harmless unlike the use of X-rays which could be damaging . |
| 10 | When Parliament creates a new crime , this is presumed to be subject to certain defences at common law , such as self-defence and duress , and also ( very frequently ) to the requirement of a state of mind ( intention , knowledge or recklessness ) . |
| 11 | A leaflet headed The Case for Charging Full Cost Fees , with the sub-heading Why this is felt to be necessary , has been dished out at the party political conferences . |
| 12 | The Council will also have to keep the curriculum under review and promote change where this is felt to be necessary . |
| 13 | An orthodox man is not allowed to hear a woman singing as this is felt to be seductive . |
| 14 | The administrator will have certain material to hand ; if this is felt to be inadequate he will search further . |
| 15 | The efficacy of speed limits thus depends on drivers ' self-discipline , but this is known to be lax , particularly as modern cars are neither designed nor advertised to encourage low-speed driving . |
| 16 | This is known to be German fertiliser manufacturer Hermann Schnabel , whose consignment of fourteen paintings included the cover lot , ‘ La Loge ’ by Renoir . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And this is meant to be hush-hush . |
| 19 | I always find much of interest in each issue as it reaches me and if I do criticise from time to time , this is meant to be constructive and helpful . |
| 20 | A casting session is then arranged and the location viewed if this is thought to be necessary . |
| 21 | Head Office can draw up a general set of specimen job descriptions for all posts , if this is thought to be helpful . |
| 22 | This is thought to be widespread , and is causing institutional investors , big holders of junk from the late 1980s , to complain that they are getting a raw deal . |
| 23 | And the most important properties of which this is held to be true are those which constitute our conception of individuals as autonomous agents . |
| 24 | Although this is claimed to be standard practice , Labour denounced the move last night as ‘ the most serious breach yet of the Tories ’ general election promises ’ . |
| 25 | It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric . |
| 26 | However , anything which is non-zero is considered to be TRUE . |
| 27 | What Derrida argues is that any discourse which conceives of itself as scientific is bound to be logocentric : it will assume that it is transparent to its object and that that object is a stable entity . |
| 28 | This was done to be sure that the constipation was and would be adequately treated . |
| 29 | From the start this was bound to be contentious , for it tied in so obviously with concern about newspaper chains , the power of large circulations and the alleged dangers of a too one-sided party press . |
| 30 | This was considered to be due to the limited involvement of the officers and the clerical assistant in certain parts of the analysis . |