Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adv] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Proposal Form is the basis on which cover is provided and items of this nature must be specifically declared to be covered . |
| 2 | Smaller companies would be well advised to be more flexible if they want to attract pension-fund investment . |
| 3 | There were no plans to take organs from primates but it was likely that certain species would be genetically engineered to be used specifically for human transplant . |
| 4 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 5 | This does not mean , incidentally , that we have to accept that ( Ex ) Fx can be meaningfully claimed to be true irrespective of the possibility of knowledge . |
| 6 | As we have seen , linguistic variables may be markers of certain fine-grained social functions within the community , which can be broadly considered to be identity functions , and which may appear as age , sex or areal differences , for example . |
| 7 | Base rate can be often seen to be outside this guideline , due mainly to expectations in future movements in interest rates ( see later in chapter ) . |
| 8 | Notice , however , that although we may have views on the social class distribution of [ ta ; ] deletion ( it can be readily observed to be less common in middle-class Belfast English ) , social class is at this stage an external category . |
| 9 | For example , if aggressiveness can be undoubtedly shown to be an inherited trait rather than a learned response — as it is in those men with the extra male chromosome — we would be in a position to reject all conceptions which would produce an excessively aggressive individual . |
| 10 | Before any of them can be significantly claimed to be logical as well as grammatical subjects , and treated as denoting certain objects that exist in their own right rather than merely describing attributes of such objects , or representing something purely fictional , certain additional conditions must be fulfilled . |
| 11 | The fact that the negative side receives very much more attention from him than the positive side , and that the attack is pressed home on only one of the two experiential explanations , has had the unfortunate result that Wittgenstein can be mistakenly thought to be giving the alternative experiential explanation , in terms of behaviour . |
| 12 | The Newsons suggest these associations stand out to such an extent that they ‘ can be fairly assumed to be causative ’ . |