Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] be [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not a case of being paranoid , it 's a case of seeking fairness for all the school children , and then some of them receiving disproportional , you know higher , er amounts of money , then that must be seen to be unfair , and I 'm certainly well supported in that . |
| 2 | Even for those items that are designated relevant , some may be judged to be highly relevant , whilst others may be regarded as partially or only marginally relevant . |
| 3 | This may be said to be the effect of his thought that probably there are no decent seats left . |
| 4 | This may be felt to be a relatively radical conclusion — namely , that emotions , or affect on the normal human adult level , should be regarded as a symbolically generalized system , that is never ‘ id-impulse ’ as such . |
| 5 | Suggested Compromises : The Purchaser to have the right of rescission for breaches which are ‘ so material ’ that they effectively change the nature of what the Purchaser thought it was acquiring ; any such compromise should ideally specify the measure of materiality either by reference to a specific amount of money or a percentage of the value of the business to be acquired although this may be felt to be impossible to quantify ; or |
| 6 | In an age when all Unionists professed some form of religious belief and when Anglicanism was the assumption of those who professed no other form of Christianity in England , some of this may be taken to be assumption rather than conviction . |
| 7 | This may be considered to be the more appropriate standard in contracts between patients and doctors where artificial products , such as manufactured heart valves , are used for implantation . |
| 8 | As for the infrequency with which it is celebrated , this may be thought to be a reaction against the daily sacrifice of the Mass and the emphasis that grace comes dear and difficult not cheap and daily . |
| 9 | This may be thought to be the legal way to control force . |
| 10 | Over a period of seven months the widow Hoskin was gifted payments totalling £6 : 3s. : 6d. and this must be presumed to be her pension ! |
| 11 | This might be seen to be more relevant to users but the trade-off would have to be made against the possible effects on the date of publication . |
| 12 | For example , if a word-processing program is acquired which is claimed by the supplier to be a " professional package " and it does not have a built-in thesaurus , this might be considered to be a breach of warranty . |
| 13 | This might be thought to be a good thing . |
| 14 | This might be thought to be the ulsterior motive surfacing ; but if so , it has to be balanced by Lewis 's unconquerable distaste for hymns ( not a markedly Protestant trait ) . |
| 15 | Also under consideration is a register of type specimens held in E , this could be enhanced to be in the form of stored images on CD , and available for sale ( as an alternative to microfiche ) . |
| 16 | If this could be shown to be the case they would have been entitled to a share purchase order from the Court . |
| 17 | Er I mean this would be considered to be a front parlour and you live in the the back room . |
| 18 | This will be shown to be particularly the case in the next chapter on the relationship between catholicism and the Irish constitution . |
| 19 | A gratuitous transfer of property into the joint names of himself and another will be presumed to be made upon trust for the person transferring , unless there is something to show that a benefit to the transferee was intended ; such intention will be presumed where the transfer is made by a father to his child . |
| 20 | This can be understood to be a truce . |
| 21 | ( 10.45 ) By a comparison with ( 10.37 ) and ( 10.19 ) , this can be seen to be a generalization both of the above Ferrari Ibañez solution and also of the Szekeres class of solutions described in Chapter 9 . |
| 22 | ( vi ) The solution of Tsoubelis and Wang ( 1989 ) given by ( 10.44 ) has ( 11.33 ) This can be seen to be a generalization of ( 11.29 ) and ( 11.32 ) , and its properties can immediately be deduced . |
| 23 | This can be seen to be in accordance with the Yerkes-Dodson law if it is assumed that more difficult tasks are those which require greater attentional capacity ( c.f. Kahneman , 1973 ) . |
| 24 | Finally , we know that ( A believes that ) B has been to A's present location before because of the word again : this can be claimed to be a pragmatic rather than a semantic implication just because , unlike semantic implications , those associated with again are not normally negated by the negation of the main verb . |
| 25 | Algebraically , this can be shown to be equivalent to , If the energy required to propagate the crack by producing the two new fracture surfaces were really confined to C , the free surface energy ( which is seldom much above I J/m 2 ) , then simple arithmetic will show that , at any realistic stress level , the critical crack length would be very short indeed , perhaps around a micron . |
| 26 | All molecular vibrations therefore have some zero-point energy , and this can be shown to be equal to one half of a quantum , so that the total vibrational energy of a molecule with only one normal vibration is where ν is the vibrational quantum number , a positive integer or zero . |
| 27 | Knowing these devices for narrowing down contextual possibilities does not imply that one can judge how best to act upon such knowledge , how much can be left to be inferred from context , how much needs to be made grammatically explicit . |
| 28 | If these could be found to be overwhelmingly large or small then the results could be of use in the framing of policy . |
| 29 | It may be useful for family health services authorities within the zone to take on responsibility for arranging early retirement packages , where these could be shown to be in the interests of the service . |
| 30 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |