Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public sector pay round is predicted to be ‘ turbulent ’ with many unions representing health and local government workers submitting claims above the 1.5% pay curb . |
| 2 | Do n't be persuaded to be safe and sensible when you would rather be dashing and adventurous in your choice . |
| 3 | Thus in one field the U- figure may be given a value of 90 per cent as take up is known to be very strong , while in another it is given a value of 25 per cent since only 1 in 4 of such applicants is thought likely to accept . |
| 4 | In Britain , for example , Merseyside , Sheffield and Glasgow have long been considered to be ‘ red islands ’ within British society : the labour movement having forced out of the state substantial levels of collective housing and welfare provision . |
| 5 | Further , the expression of a α4β1 binding site in the cellular form and its deletion in plasma fibronectin and the involvement of fibronectin in blood clotting as well as secretion and synthesis of fibronectin have all been reported to be differentially affected by alternative splicing ( 27,41 ) . |
| 6 | Heparan sulphate proteoglycan , laminin , and collagen have all been shown to be linked across cell membranes to cytoskeletal elements , and cytoskeletal proteins have been demonstrated to be condensed at cell-cell and cell-matrix interfaces . |
| 7 | Candidates have hitherto been required to be UNIP members and endorsed by the party 's central committee . |
| 8 | Where the degree course and the HNC/HND course have not been designed to be integral with each other , students seeking entry to the degree course on the basis of the HNC/HND will normally need to take two further academic years of full-time study for a Degree and three further academic years of full-time study for an Honours Degree ( or the part-time equivalents ) . |
| 9 | The limits of critical periods have not been found to be as immutable as was formerly thought , for by manipulating the animals ' experience they can be extended considerably . |
| 10 | This means that many mergers for which there have been no demonstrable advantages , but which have not been found to be overtly anti-competitive , have been allowed through , and thus contributed to the general increase in industrial concentration . |
| 11 | However , some fluids such as saliva , sweat , tears and urine have not been shown to be infectious . |
| 12 | They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron . |
| 13 | Coun Jack Warwick ( Lab ) a retired Yorkshire Water authority official and Coun Eric Dixon ( Ind ) a retired education authority officer , have both been nominated to be next Mayor of Scarborough . |
| 14 | Sleep-deprived subjects have similarly been found to be easily distracted by irrelevant stimuli in a card-sorting task , again demonstrating a failure to maintain focused attention on the job in hand . |
| 15 | LAW and gospel have traditionally been thought to be opposed to one another . |
| 16 | Oesophageal transit and acid clearance have also been shown to be slower in these patients . |
| 17 | Changes in the gall bladder , such as the increased absorption of water and the hypersecretion of mucous glycoprotein have also been shown to be responsible for cholesterol gall stone formation . |
| 18 | Recently some migrant African and Chinese populations have also been found to be susceptible to non-insulin dependent diabetes , and people of European origin might be the only true ‘ low susceptibility ’ group . |
| 19 | It is said that assumptions on which he was apparently prepared to proceed have now been shown to be unsound . |
| 20 | In the latter case it remains to be determined whether any of the minor polypeptides detected in our assay are related to other CRE-binding activities ( ECRE-1 , ECRE-3 and ECRE-4 ) that have previously been shown to be down regulated during differentiation of F9 cells ( 48 ) . |
| 21 | I have occasionally been known to be kind to an old lady and I do n't kick every stray dog that comes across my path . ’ |
| 22 | The CEN Technical Committees 116 and 117 which have been working on the creation of European Standards for bituminous sheeting and single-ply membranes have recently been disbanded to be replaced by a new Technical Committee , CEN TC 254 , which will prepare European Standards on waterproofing sheeting used in building and civil engineering works . |
| 23 | I say ‘ perhaps ’ because rhesus monkeys have recently been claimed to be able to make cross-modal associations . |
| 24 | Raccoons no longer trapped for their fur , have invaded suburbia around Washington and a few have recently been found to be rabid . |
| 25 | However , the sophisticated methodology of land-use planning , as well as the policy instruments of the programme , have recently been shown to be very fragile and unable to prevent large areas of land previously left uncultivated ( because of susceptibility to erosion ) , being once more put under the plough . |
| 26 | The Creoles have recently been shown to be tonal , to express grammatical relations and even vocabulary differences ( though rarely ) through relative pitch differences on individual syllables . |
| 27 | Murine NF-L , NF-M and NF-H genes as well as the chicken NF-M gene have recently been shown to be expressed after transfection in non-neuronal cells ( 38,26,39 ) . |
| 28 | Tumour-suppressor genes have been implicated in an increasing number of solid cancers , and some of these genes have subsequently been found to be inactivated in haematological malignancies . |