Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other students joined in and before long , quite spontaneously , a crowd of some 200 or so was found to be singing lustily , with Leonard as the ecstatic , unselfconscious conductor . |
| 2 | Previous generations were brought up in an age when it was thought not ‘ respectable ’ — especially for women — to enjoy sex ; and men and women over 50 or so were expected to be together ‘ for companionship ’ , to the exclusion of any sexual activity . |
| 3 | The value of exports is assumed to be determined by factors outside the domestic circular flow and so is assumed to be exogenous in our model . |
| 4 | The site supports a large number and wide variety of bird species and so is considered to be a Wetland Site of International Importance . |
| 5 | The subsidence costs are incurred by British Coal and so are said to be internalized . |
| 6 | Twelve manors , a vill and four hamlets held by subjects on the west side of the Severn from Newent in the north to Lydney , Alvington and Aylburton in the south were named : they were said to have been afforested by John , and so were claimed to be free of the Forest law . |
| 7 | They , too , will owe a lot to the boycotters and sanctioners , including one in particular that I used to revile and later was honoured to be able to call friend — also a keen cricketer , a left-hand bat who as a schoolboy in Pretoria was thought promising enough to be headed for a higher grade of cricket one day . |
| 8 | It was an area in which competitive private enterprise in the supply of water had early and clearly been shown to be deficient . |
| 9 | Emphasis should be — and surely was intended to be — on the fact of breakdown , and not on the formal technicalities of establishing such breakdown . |
| 10 | At four shillings a copy it came within the purse of most and indeed was judged to be ‘ a manual to the whole kingdom ’ . |
| 11 | In Sussex Justices the court said that " it is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done . " |
| 12 | At the same time that this mischief is done , the wood itself is ( timber excepted ) but of a miserable account , as any one may suppose , when he is informed , that these shaws have a fence only on one side , and consequently are exposed to be eaten by the cattle that graze in the fields ; hence there is an imperfect system of wood , an injured one of corn , and wretched fences ; by aiming at too much , nothing arrives at perfection . |
| 13 | OPPOSITE This posthumous portrait of Mozart was painted by Barbara Krafft in 1819 , 28 years after the composer 's death , and yet is considered to be a true likeness . |
| 14 | She said moving the pupils back and forward was bound to be unsettling and confusing for them . |
| 15 | If your bills are always sailing through taxation as drawn , it may be that your draftsman is getting it spot on , but equally it may be because the bills are being constantly understated and therefore are found to be unobjectionable . |
| 16 | Erm and we could offer this to the whole er er t to anyone who came to us and therefore be seen to be a church which was very accepting and outward going and missionary minded because all too often we hear ministers talking about erm using bapti baptism as an evangelical tool er c talk which I greatly resent and resist . |
| 17 | The use of in-depth qualitative methods is relatively untried in driver research , but here is shown to be most valuable . |