Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the strictest sense then , the subject of this chapter are the six Warsaw Pact members of Eastern Europe which , along with Mongolia , could alone be said to be bound to the ‘ socialist commonwealth ’ . |
| 2 | A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length . |
| 3 | A Scottish Office spokesman said : ‘ Justice must not only be seen to be done — but heard to be done . ’ |
| 4 | Put that the other way round : a China that flunked this test would not only be seen to be throwing in its lot with Asia 's rogue regimes . |
| 5 | The model predicts that vulnerability factors can only be expected to be revealed amongst women experiencing major difficulties or who have recently experienced a severe event . |
| 6 | They can only be taken to be creating expectations of faithfulness . |
| 7 | The principle must be that although affray is a continuing offence , where the participants can no longer be said to be using or threatening violence towards another person , the offence is complete . |
| 8 | In April the Accounting Standards Board proposed that provisions for future losses and reorganisation costs after an acquisition will no longer be allowed to be taken straight out of the balance sheet of the purchaser 's accounts , without passing through its profit and loss account . |
| 9 | Again we assume that she would have young children , children who would normally be expected to be living with her . |
| 10 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 11 | But what about those conflicts that do not take place within such a constituted social system , such as conflictual bourgeois societies which can not be said to be unified , except , as Sartre suggests dismissively , by appeal to a lost paradise before the class struggle ? |
| 12 | If the purpose of the law is to protect women from acts of sexual intercourse to which they have not in fact consented , whether by reason of force actually applied , physical or other threat , or fear induced by the accused or by others , then the relevant question would appear to be : Did this particular woman , in these particular circumstances , submit to this particular man ; or did she in fact freely consent to have intercourse with him ? … if the law deems the woman to have consented to the act despite ample evidence of threats which rendered her submissive but non-consenting , then the law can not be said to be serving its true function of protecting individuals from the imposition of non-consensual sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 13 | That may be so , but while a quarter of the public does not have complete confidence in the police that code can not be said to be working . |
| 14 | Someone who calls out ‘ Cooee ’ can not be said to be saying something that is true or false . |
| 15 | At the same time it affirms that academic staff may not be dismissed for holding particular beliefs or following particular lines of inquiry , and that senior staff may not be dismissed to be replaced by more junior , and cheaper , staff . |
| 16 | In these circumstances they can not be seen to be sacrificing their independence for that would undermine their claims to being objective in taking decisions at work . |
| 17 | The daughter of Samuel Roberts , quite simply , could not be seen to be involved . |
| 18 | ‘ We can not be seen to be throwing more resources at solving this murder , but the truth is , that is what we are doing . ’ |
| 19 | However , morally speaking , the nature of these states can not be seen to be catering for the betterment of the broad masses but the consolidation of a ruling groups power . |
| 20 | We must try to help ourselves to come to terms with the changes in farming , but if the present position persists , farmers in rural areas will not be seen to be working in line with the avowed aim of my right hon. Friend the Minister of a good environmental policy mixed with good farming . |
| 21 | As the debt can not be required to be redeemed , its value after the primary period has expired is negligible and , in practice , there will usually be arrangements to transfer it to a party friendly to the issuer or to enable the issuer to elect effectively to redeem the debt for a token amount . |
| 22 | This is not a tenable interpretation of rule 12.12 of the Rules of 1986 , given the clear language of paragraph ( 1 ) of the rule and given also that by their nature proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986 can not be expected to be addressed by Ord. 11 , r. 1 . |
| 23 | A middle course may be achieved by the phrase : " for the purpose of delineation only " , which has been held to mean that the plan must not be taken to be drawn to scale but the lines are correct diagrammatically ( Re Freeman and Taylor 's Contract ( 1907 ) 97 LT 39 ) . |
| 24 | The granting of a lease for full consideration in money or money 's worth shall not be taken to be associated with any operation effected more than three years after the grant , and no operation effected on or after 27 March 1974 shall be taken to be associated with an operation effected before that date . |
| 25 | There are claimed benefits in academic progress and in social and emotional maturity , but the solution to the basic problem of the language and learning environments can not be taken to be solved in the mainstreaming option . |
| 26 | There was only one machine at Enfield , German manufacture , which could not be spared to be stripped and copied . |
| 27 | Its two halves are asymmetric and can not be folded to be superimposed without first turning one of them over . |
| 28 | A As you have had such success in breeding your fish , and raising the fry to a reasonable size , you can not be judged to be doing anything wrong . |
| 29 | At all costs aggressive behaviour must not be allowed to be rewarding . |
| 30 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |