Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | And what of the deletion of / ? / in Belfast English , which can easily be argued to be phonetically motivated ? |
| 3 | ‘ ( 1 ) Solicitors shall ensure that every office where they or their firms practise is and can reasonably be seen to be properly supervised in accordance with the following minimum standards : |
| 4 | The difference illustrated here could reasonably be said to be as much attitudinal as grammatical . |
| 5 | Some of these clients can misread political realities , others may perceive that they are ‘ involving clinicians ’ in management whereas they could also be seen to be merely ‘ indoctrinating ’ . |
| 6 | The church occupies an interesting site in relation to the rest of the village , and the manor sites can now also be seen to be very complex . |
| 7 | Although more tension may be applied to the lower posterior wall of the reservoir than to the anterior wall during construction , one would expect to show greater differences in scores for these sites in relatively recently constructed reservoirs compared with those that had been in situ for several years , and the pathological changes would also be expected to be more like those of mucosal ischaemia . |
| 8 | It is possible that if a large group of post-acute pancreatitis patients was studied , trypsin , lipase , and bicarbonate secretion may also be found to be significantly decreased . |
| 9 | In addition to these , blend dare has also been found with the bare infinitive in a number of other categorizable contexts , all of which can also be shown to be somehow non-assertive : ( 59 ) I only wish I dared write to him . |
| 10 | In fact , black holes can now be said to be really matters of science fact rather than science fiction . |
| 11 | In these circumstances , rape by a husband might very well be thought to be more disturbing in its effects than rape by that classic stranger leaping from the shadows . |
| 12 | Erm some women tend to have more pitch variation and they 're more emotional so they 're more likely to use encouraging tones er which can sometimes be seen to be slightly patronizing , whereas boys think it 's soppy to be emotional or expressive way , so that if you 're in school and you 're asking people to read out in class , erm a girl would be more likely to be more expressive , whereas a boy would be a little bit more monotonous , and just sort of read it out and not put any emotion into it . |
| 13 | Thus the responsibility for unemployment would be seen to lie with the unemployed , who would then be seen to be personally responsible for their own unemployment , poverty , etc . |
| 14 | Viewed in this way some part , at least , of the supposed connection between creativity and madness will then be seen to be entirely comprehensible . |
| 15 | The idea that old age dependency in twentieth-century Britain has increased , as propounded in the writing on ‘ structured dependency ’ , can therefore be seen to be highly contestable . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Of course grandiose ideas of this sort can never be said to be entirely new . |