Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muscular tension is often a factor , and may be considered to be the prostatic version of a tension headache . |
| 2 | Again the family member will argue that this is perfectly reasonable behaviour for any family : total commitment regardless of cost to self might be considered to be the moral basis of family life . |
| 3 | It has been argued that special attention should be focused upon the resilience and potential for recovery of the soil profile in view of the inputs induced by man ( Trudgill , 1977 , chapter 8 ) , and the importance of the problem is underlined by Toy ( 1982 ) in a review of accelerated erosion when he concludes that such erosion can be considered to be the pre-eminent environmental problem in the United States by virtue of its widespread occurrence and cumulative cost . |
| 4 | In the case of an unincorporated body , such as a partnership , the partners will be considered to be the joint authors of the work . |
| 5 | It can be considered to be the microelectronic equivalent of a mainframe 's central processing unit ( CPU ) . |
| 6 | This may well have been the intention , but in fact the implications are clear : demolition rates are too low , compulsory purchase of homes for redevelopment is inevitable in the future ; owner-occupiers can not be trusted to be the final arbiters of whether their homes arc unfit' ; and some existing environments may be so drab as to be not worth preserving' . |
| 7 | The fabric of our society would be seen to be the ridiculous thing it is . |
| 8 | Some caputs can be seen to be the logical successors to Roman and pre-Roman sites , the latter remaining as hillforts which may have been reoccupied in post-Roman times . |
| 9 | Even the notorious " one consonant or two ? " problem can sometimes be solved this way : " reccommend " can be seen to be the wrong spelling because the word is made by adding the prefix " re " to the word " commend " . |
| 10 | For that God has been conceived as male , and that biblical teaching which arose out of a patriarchal society has been held to be the revelation of God , must surely be seen to be the underlying facts of western culture which have led to discrimination against women . |
| 11 | This can immediately be seen to be the obvious solution which , on its own , gives rise to the Kasner metrics as will be shown in the next section . |
| 12 | We have already mentioned background music , although this should really be expanded to be the public address system , as almost always the background music is fed by the same amplification and uses the same speakers as the guest paging system . |
| 13 | The subject in the USA is , therefore , still implicitly dominated by one major theoretical perspective , and given the dominance of US scholars in the literature at large , Realism can be said to be the major current approach . |
| 14 | Beyond the brief : All three are prepared , indeed eager , to go beyond what might be thought to be the narrow design brief and comment on the nature and selection of the material they are asked to make attractive and intelligible on the page . |
| 15 | This may be thought to be the legal way to control force . |
| 16 | This might be thought to be the ulsterior motive surfacing ; but if so , it has to be balanced by Lewis 's unconquerable distaste for hymns ( not a markedly Protestant trait ) . |
| 17 | In practice , moreover , treatments for such patients tend to be chosen empirically and worked through on a trial and error basis , whatever might be thought to be the underlying pathophysiology . |
| 18 | The Divisional Court , and the majority of their lordships in the House of Lords , were struck with what might be thought to be the obvious purpose of the Act , which was clearly passed with a view to assisting the police in the detection and prevention of crime . |
| 19 | Cropper looked for support from the African Institution for the removal of the West Indians ' financial advantage in the sugar trade , privately assuring Zachary Macaulay that the introduction of free-labour sugar was opposed by the planters because they knew it ‘ will destroy their System of cultivation , tho ’ it can be proved to be the only means of establishing West Indian property on a lasting foundation . |
| 20 | An extension through this surface may be taken to be the familiar two parts of the exterior Schwarzschild space-time . |
| 21 | The starting point for investigation may be taken to be the eighteenth-century revolutionary movements which gave impetus to beliefs that social progress was possible and that social organization could be reconstructed in accordance with rational principles . |
| 22 | The value when repaired for these purposes should always be taken to be the insured value . |
| 23 | This is because the apparent uptake at one hour can not be taken to be the true uptake in view of the high level at time 0 , which must represent adherence to the cell wall ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 24 | In the ultimate resort also , the association of a constituency must be held to be the proper exponent of its wishes . " |