Example sentences of "[adv] to be [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gene , for purposes of the theory , is a segment of genetic material divided off as best suits the investigator , who needs a unit small enough to be treated as identical through successive generations ; it has no self with which to be selfish . |
| 2 | I stayed there for five weeks and after another operation was pronounced ‘ partially sighted ’ enough to be registered as blind . |
| 3 | At other times it is relatively hidden , smoothed over by extensive cultivation , familiarity and the techniques of what Bourdieu calls ‘ legitimation ’ , only to be revealed when constituent elements are wrenched away and placed in a new setting . |
| 4 | Judicial misinterpretation is only to be expected where radical reform is introduced . |
| 5 | There was also the possibility of a more flexible use of facilities in the statutory , voluntary and private sectors , and , finally , the powerful influence of doctors over the lives of the chronically disabled would inevitably wane , a process of ‘ de-medicalization ’ which is largely to be welcomed as medical and nursing skills are only a small part of the required professional skills . |
| 6 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 7 | The first two years of education were to be the academic years , and there were proposals for these two years also to be seen as discrete and eligible for a Diploma of Higher Education . |
| 8 | Clearly , it could not have enhanced it ; why obey a legal system in which senior officials publicly pose as against one thing but privately collude in its occurrence — not only ought they to be condemned as hypocrites but their laws ought also to be disregarded as mere propaganda concealing the lack of will to control corporate behaviour . |
| 9 | But , it will be objected , these theorists actually regard the status of moral patients as akin to that of slaves , and we would expect also to be reminded that contemporary opinion in the civilised world , despite pockets of resistance , is still largely in agreement with this view . |
| 10 | The biscuit packets travelled on a conveyor over this machine , and if a packet did not fall within pre-set weight limits it was pushed off the conveyor , later to be opened and good biscuits fed back into the line . |
| 11 | The announcements on licensed dealing firms themselves prove often to be delayed and evasive . |
| 12 | Differing theological formulations , we are assured , are ‘ often to be considered as complementary rather than conflicting ’ ( Orientalium Ecclesiarum 17 ) . |
| 13 | But if this is a mistake and animals are properly to be understood as primitive beings , at least as different from us as they are similar , then their modest entitlement to humane treatment , accorded them by common sense and enshrined in the law , might well be vindicated . |
| 14 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 15 | In general , those who have emerged to lead it have often been unsuitable in personality terms and are readily to be seen as incompetent or inappropriate , even by the least perspicacious . |
| 16 | There may also be a large overlap between intuitive classification as a " thing " and lexical labelling as a noun , but this is a separate issue ; the distinction for purposes of linguistic structure between entity and property is undoubtedly to be taken as autonomous . |
| 17 | The merits of a planning application lodged in August 1988 can hardly be expected to be judged on the basis of a yet to be prepared and approved Structure Plan Review and District-wide Local Plan , both of which will address a future Development Plan time period . |
| 18 | Indirect Rulers ranked self-respect above all the other blessings they could bestow , wealth , health , and the conveniences of modern life paling by comparison , if they were not actually to be regarded as injurious . |