Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [be] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the race McCallen fell off at Church Corner , Portrush , but was unhurt and was hoping to be able to take part in the opening Superbike race which followed the 250cc . |
| 2 | It runs both Solaris 1.1 and 2.1 and is expected to be the first of a family of products . |
| 3 | It runs both Solaris 1.1 and 2.1 and is expected to be the first of a family of products . |
| 4 | The Light Rifle is based around the same theory of operation as a lightpen , it 's just much bigger and is designed to be held up to about 10′ from the TV set rather than in contact with the screen . |
| 5 | The sundial on a cottage in North End was made in the 1840s and is said to be the largest in England with its twelve ft diameter . |
| 6 | The camcorder on the right is bigger and heavier and is designed to be supported on the shoulder : compare the position of its side-mounted viewfinder with the ones on the compact machines . |
| 7 | It is not about sincerity , so much as being seen to be sincere . |
| 8 | Therefore , although skills are now embedded in all courses reviewed and validated this session , the range of skills is not as comprehensive as is deemed to be desirable by the University . |
| 9 | To ensure that all issues presented to the court are considered as fairly and expeditiously as possible and are seen to be so . |
| 10 | The tanker was searched by coastguards protected by the marines from H M S Brazen and was found to be carrying stores in breach of the UN embargo ; it 's being diverted to a nearby port on the coast of Amman for further investigations . |
| 11 | Our most famous memorial is the Lambarde Brass which is unique and is believed to be of Flemish workmanship . |
| 12 | Okudaira was still at large and was said to be a member of the Japanese Red Army underground group . |
| 13 | The United States sent $65m ( £40m ) of military aid to Colombia , but this has been called inappropriate and is alleged to be more suitable for fighting Colombia 's left-wing guerrillas than the cocaine mafia . |
| 14 | ‘ My parents are the ones who need to be convinced , and I 'm not sure that 's going to be an easy task . ’ |
| 15 | Thomas Fuller Bacon was born in Stamford in 1824 and was considered to be stubborn , selfish and unsociable as a child . |
| 16 | The chemical structure of mescaline was established in 1918 and was found to be closely related to that of adrenaline , which leads to some interesting speculations . |
| 17 | It 'll be around 30 minutes long and is intended to be a trailer for their new full length video which will be released later this year [ Summer time ? ] . |
| 18 | As it stands , this claim will be of no explanatory interest if the relevant descriptions of events are trivial in the light of our projects and concerns , and a persuasive conception of determinism must therefore include some method of selecting from among the multifarious possible descriptions of events those that are considered to be significant . |
| 19 | It has been argued that supply is more likely to show a positive response to relative price increases which are thought to be temporary than those that are thought to be permanent . |
| 20 | Very few pagan cemeteries were in use throughout the period , and those that were tend to be the large examples in eastern England which may have been centralised depositories , not belonging to individual settlements . |
| 21 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |
| 22 | Sex is pleasurable and is meant to be so . |
| 23 | The full circuit diagram for the UV Exposure Timer is given in Fig. 1 and is seen to be based around a simple 555 timer chip IC1 , wired as a monostable . |
| 24 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |
| 25 | The one of Otakar I is superb and is said to be from the hand of the master himself . |
| 26 | She 's attractive , successful and is engaged to be married . |
| 27 | Professor Gordon Higginson , Southampton University vice-chancellor , who chaired the committee , said its proposals were quite modest and were bound to be implemented by the mid-1990s . |
| 28 | In many spheres of public life justice should be seen to be done as well as be done , and officials should not only be impartial but be seen to be above reproach . |
| 29 | Phil Wells , 48 , vanished from Heathrow Airport following the theft of the money in 1989 and was believed to be living somewhere in Florida , or possibly dead . |
| 30 | The courses were Linguistics-based and were designed to be professionally relevant in a broad sense , though they included much that made no claim to immediate practical usefulness . |