Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only if an intervention is effective not only in eliminating this factor , but also in transforming the person 's lifestyle such that he or she is removed from this conveyor belt of risk , can the effects of the intervention be expected to be apparent ten or twenty years later . |
| 2 | In particular , can the utility function be shown to be separate between these two types of goods ? |
| 3 | Should the offer be thought to be suitable , the tribunal examines the reasons why the employee has rejected it . |
| 4 | Not until it does begin to react to such objects in recognisable and predictably different ways can the baby be said to be capable of noticing the objects in question . |
| 5 | But surely there are no acts of introspection " that could in any intelligible sense be said to be identifiable independently of their objects , analogous to " acts of extrospection " . |
| 6 | I could n't say it 's new , but then could blue be said to be royal ? |
| 7 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |