Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to be a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Er I mean this would be considered to be a front parlour and you live in the the back room .
2 As such , the hand transcriptions can be considered to be a perfect analysis by the acoustic-phonetic component into a string of phonemic , mixed , or mid units , excluding any representation for word or syllable boundaries and excluding the effects of assimilation across word-boundaries .
3 Even if a database contains pre-existing works , it can be considered to be a new work of copyright if it is the result of selection and judgment .
4 If you can forgive Milton for what might now be considered to be a sexist remark , there is a 17th century solidity about his philosophy of learning .
5 It may be considered to be a vital British interest that we are not on the outside of the single currency in five years ' time .
6 The " appearance " exception ( that is , the second part of the exception ) could only apply if the soundproof box and printer , when taken together , could be considered to be an integral unit .
7 New Zealand copyright law is very similar to United Kingdom law , although , in the United States , it would be likely that the design features indicated in the specification would be considered to be an unprotectable idea .
8 For an ideal solution consisting of two components A and B , Raoult 's law may be expressed mathematically as The vapour of an ideal solution may be considered to be an ideal gas , and Dalton 's law ( see section 3.1 ) therefore applies .
9 Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably .
10 This may well be considered to be an important factor , but , like other arguments for restricting popular influence or control over political systems and assemblies , it is not a democratic argument .
11 An ageing labour force can not be expected to be a mobile one .
12 Considering that σ A -RNA polymerase can also form stable open complexes at some promoters , it seems that no general rule can be easily established , and that the characteristics of the different complexes should be expected to be a particular feature of each promoter .
13 In that case the vessel should be deemed to be a constructive total loss .
14 By virtue of TCGA 1992 , s69(2) the trust will be deemed to be a foreign trust for all purposes of capital gains tax .
15 Some leases contain rather more elaborate provisos such as : " no demand for or acceptance of rent by the landlord or its agents with knowledge of a breach of any of the covenants on the part of the tenant contained in these presents shall be or be deemed to be a waiver wholly or partially of any such breach but such breach shall be deemed to be a continuing breach of covenant " .
16 Finally , we know that ( A believes that ) B has been to A's present location before because of the word again : this can be claimed to be a pragmatic rather than a semantic implication just because , unlike semantic implications , those associated with again are not normally negated by the negation of the main verb .
17 The market can not be seen to be a neutral , fair process whose structure simply permits participants to exercise free choice in negotiating and concluding exchange transactions .
18 Research might then be seen to be a mere luxury add-on , not an essential part of ‘ what it is to be an institution of higher education .
19 The induction in the core is magnified by the high permeability , except in the saturation regions where the result can be seen to be a trapezoidal induction waveform ( Fig. 3 ) .
20 He believes it important to be seen to be a good community person and to put back in some of what we take out .
21 It is to be hoped that the evidence provided by Margaret Clark ( 1988 ) will be seen to be a vital concomitant to the evidence considered by the Select Committee .
22 Even without evidence of a causal role in schizophrenia , the reduction of overprotective parenting may be seen to be a valuable preventive strategy for other psychiatric problems .
23 To that extent there may be said to be a mental element required for this variety of manslaughter , but it is a manifestly low mental element compared with the death which results .
24 ‘ The case may be said to be a good example of the stringency with which the courts scrutinise transactions of guarantee entered into at the instance of a debtor who is likely to be in a position to exert influence on the surety and in circumstances in which the surety can derive no conceivable benefit from the transaction .
25 The Prince of Wales could hardly be said to be a good luck symbol at the moment .
26 The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way .
27 Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator .
28 When , however , its satisfactions depend upon the infliction of pain or damage upon an unwilling partner , the situation is again that of using a person as a mere object : the sadist ( or , sometimes , the masochist ) may genuinely be said to be a social and personal menace .
29 By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one .
30 That can not be said to be a full description of reason within the disciplines , for they can not be sustained without values and judgement .
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