Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Variants of ( Ε ) and ( o ) do not form a continuum along a single linear scale , but each of them may be said to be part of one or more subscales which can be constructed on , for example , the continua of roundness , or backness or length . |
| 2 | I 'd be bound to be found out in the end . |
| 3 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 4 | This can be seen by computing the scalar invariant given here by ( 9.22 ) Using ( 9.6 ) and ( 9.13 ) , I can be seen to be unbounded when for all values of k 1 and k 2 in the required range ( 9.9 ) . |
| 5 | She may be invited to be its Chancellor even though she 's only got one O-level . |
| 6 | The Heather he had known on Rhodes was an uncomplicated and instantly likeable young woman : a little gauche perhaps , a little unsure of herself , but essentially only what she might be expected to be . |
| 7 | Plea please can I ask you if you bring in any other ideas of business you 'll be considered to be |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | I just wondered what those contexts and you will be bound to be asked it in council if it 's not asked now . |
| 10 | Erm the demonstration effect of failure should also be considered , that is if you fail once you 've undertaken an enterprise , this will affect your other policy objectives too , that is er you will be seen to be weak , your commitment to intervene on behalf of other allies might be seen to be , to have weakened er and , and generally you , you might have done your , your overall foreign policy stance er some , some considerable damage . |
| 11 | As a returner , these are the skills in which you will be expected to be competent before being allowed to return to practice . |
| 12 | In this she can be considered to be the founder of district nursing . |
| 13 | That way you can be seen to be doing a good job and will have more opportunity for improving your pay and possibly being promoted . |
| 14 | Though we have not yet attained a full system of compulsory registration , we may be said to be moving , surely and at an increasing pace , in that direction . |
| 15 | People are more wary about what is happening into our planet and how we should go about things , and how we should be perceived to be going about things . |
| 16 | So if we could look at those things and talk to the Government to see if it 's possible , it maybe it is n't possible then that 's a different argument but we should be seen to be doing something er to let this die on it 's own will A , will deprive other people for odd jobs and in some cases I 've met the representation two guys there who used their redundancy money for Airways to purchase er a small aircraft and are running a flying school . |
| 17 | There was perhaps a feeling at the start that we should be seen to be a body apart from the rest of ICI . |
| 18 | As we move on with God and seek his will for us as His church , we must be seen to be addressing the issues which face us today . |
| 19 | As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation . |
| 20 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 21 | If adjustment to these constraints appears ( on the basis of psychological and/or physiological evidence ) to be innate rather than learned , they may be said to be ‘ built in ’ , or ‘ hard-wired ’ . |
| 22 | To the extent that these parts of the social structure are based on the same values , they may be said to be integrated . |
| 23 | They may be said to be exercising an administrative function . |
| 24 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 25 | there would be a practical advantage in uniting some official knowledge of their wants as well as your artistic skill , on the one hand , with my own claims , whatever they may be considered to be , on the other ; and were they to honour us by proposing a joint appointment , I can only say that I should feel much satisfaction in undertaking this great work in conjunction with a brother Architect for whom I have so great a respect as yourself … |
| 26 | Indeed , they may be considered to be much more practical than the visions given to us by politicians and hence may be more likely to have support . |
| 27 | Such previously unimaginable impertinences must not only be done by the book : they must be seen to be too . |
| 28 | If women are to be a good test of male-oriented psychological theories , as egalitarian feminist psychology hopes , they must be assumed to be a largely homogeneous population . |
| 29 | Since it was impossible to envisage the use of nuclear weapons in any way consistent with the laws of war , and since great and apparently law-abiding Powers possessed and threatened to use them , they must be held to be simply beyond the scope of international law , |
| 30 | ( viii ) They should be encouraged to be adventurous with vocabulary choices and should be taught how to use a children 's thesaurus . |