Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The product sectors on which we have focused will , I believe , be proven to be increasingly beneficial to us as consumers look for fewer but better quality , better value products . |
| 2 | Mr Meacher said that such details would have to be worked out between ministers and their officials , but he is likely to be pressed to be more specific . |
| 3 | If the meaning of ‘ god ’ can be developed to be as flexible and free from the restrictions and constraints of earlier teachings and convictions as has been the development of medical science , then the future could be looked to with confidence and hope . |
| 4 | 7.7.4 not to store or bring onto the Premises any article substance or liquid of a specifically combustible inflammable or explosive nature and to comply with the requirements and recommendations of the fire authority [ and the [ reasonable ] requirements of the Landlord ] as to fire precautions relating to the Premises Some tenants sell inflammable or what may be considered to be otherwise dangerous substances in the normal course of their business . |
| 5 | Here one problem of panels becomes clear : with all the best intentions , panel members may be considered to be specially interested in volunteering for , or accepting an invitation to join , a certain panel , and after a time the panel member can become rather too self-conscious and sophisticated . |
| 6 | This means that because of the high initial sensitivity of most organisms to ciprofloxacin , the risk of mutation may be considered to be relatively low . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , care should be taken here to distinguish between words which can be considered to be merely useful information , from words which go to the identity of the goods sold . |
| 8 | Q7 " A firm can not be considered to be genuinely marketing-orientated unless it has a thorough understanding of its markets , its customers and their problems . " |
| 9 | All other established techniques involve the measurement of luminal acidity in response to varied stimuli , none of which can be considered to be truly physiological . |
| 10 | Whilst in the case of certain types of racked goods in which continuous fuel surfaces do not exist , automatic roof venting may be considered to be less essential , in the extreme case it is of great importance . |
| 11 | She was implying , plain enough , that no one else could be trusted to be as thorough as herself . |
| 12 | The system would be designed to be particularly user-friendly , emphasising the enhancement of worker skills rather than de-skilling . |
| 13 | The AA Foundation study also suggests that car radio/cassette players should be designed to be as automatic as possible , and sold with an information leaflet highlighting the possible influences of music on driving . |
| 14 | A house which has been associated with such dramatic deeds might be expected to be broodingly sinister , but in fact Huntingtower is a delightful example of a castle which was progressively adapted to become a fine residence . |
| 15 | He 'd had another sleepless night and ahead lay customs , who could n't be expected to be exactly pro-British , and because of post and telephone strikes in Argentina , he had n't been able to confirm the flight with Alejandro , so they 'd have to go through the hassle of hiring a car to drive the 330 kilometres out to his estancia . |
| 16 | But , in his report , Government inspector H Stephens says : ‘ The banging of car doors , the starting of engines and the noise from car alarms would be introduced close to habitable rooms and adjacent to residents ’ gardens which might normally be expected to be both peaceful and quiet . ’ |
| 17 | They could not be expected to be automatically loyal . |
| 18 | They could be expected to be as obedient to the workers as they had been to the capitalists . |
| 19 | On the point of commenting scathingly that not everyone could be expected to be as cold-blooded as he was , Gina hesitated , finally deciding that in this case discretion was certainly the better part of valour . |
| 20 | ‘ She felt pressurised that she would be expected to be as career-orientated as she was before having the baby , ’ says Sandra , ‘ so she works with us because we are relaxed about it — if she does n't want to work on Wednesday , that 's fine , she can work on Friday instead . |
| 21 | The core here refers to those journals which exist to promote left political comment and whose cultural criticism might therefore be expected to be consistently oppositional . |
| 22 | The relations between the labour organisation and the government or the party of independence , and hence the status of these actors … may be expected to be quite different in these two types of situations . |
| 23 | If the government increases the money supply to increase the price level to engineer a fall in the real wage , actors can be expected to be fully aware of this and hence to adjust the nominal wage so that no real purchase on the economy can be obtained . |
| 24 | Kenner 's fantasy is being discussed in terms of the view — with which Kenner can be expected to be very familiar — that the goals of a biographically-minded criticism are in some measure fantastic . |
| 25 | On this theory some potencies would contain more shape-specific molecules than others and some would contain longer chain polymers than others , so some potencies might be expected to be more efficacious than others in treatment . |
| 26 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 27 | Given also the evidence of the weak performance of younger students with more marginal traditional qualifications , it seems likely that if these students gained entry to higher education on the basis of non-traditional qualifications that their success rates might be expected to be more limited . |
| 28 | Tasks representative of criterion 2a would be expected to be more demanding than those for 1a and this was indeed the case . |
| 29 | The subjectivity of the whole procedure and particularly of this last section was alleviated to some extent by each teacher being observed by more than one member of the Senior Management Team and this aspect of the review may be deemed to be reasonably reliable . |
| 30 | The Employer 's Liability ( Defective Equipment ) Act 1969 , s. 1(1) now provides : Where … an employee suffers personal injury in the course of his employment in consequence of a defect in equipment provided by his employer for the purposes of the employer 's business and the defect is attributable wholly or partly to the fault of a third party ( whether identified or not ) the injury shall be deemed to be also attributable to negligence on the part of the employer . |