Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [vb pp] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's left us in some er , difficulties frankly , because one of the things that er , the C E C was recommending , that work of a strategic nature , which at the moment is undertaken by industrial conferences should be moved over to be dealt with by section conferences and that meant that a number of industrial conferences need not meet any longer , so we would avoid the duplication , the overlap and the waste . |
| 2 | It is suggested that defective receipts should not be accepted , but should be sent back to be corrected . |
| 3 | In addition , Vogtlander argued , CO 2 emissions are a ‘ global problem ’ and they should be tackled globally to be effective . |
| 4 | And that is why we 're asking for officers to form a report on whether or not a small building maintenance team should be set up to be able to carry out that work . |
| 5 | The report recommends £7.6 million worth of the programme should be started immediately to be completed by December of this year . |
| 6 | It was … contended that … if the person had become philosophically or psychologically or socially female , that person should be held not to be a man for the purposes of ( section 30 , inter alia ) . |
| 7 | Did the trade union movement really fail to grasp that the two pre-conditions were : first , that its sense of responsibility must be seen not to be limited to a commitment in the shorter term to contribute to recovery from immediate crisis , but to extend , at the expense of short-run advantage , to the longer term commitment , to the revival of British industry and to its successful competition in world markets ; and secondly , that a Labour Government would have to preside over the management of the country 's affairs ? |
| 8 | Sir Brynmor Jones said jocularly : " The teacher who can be replaced by a teaching machine or any audio-visual aid deserves to be ( 1968 : 281 ) and this might be thought also to be true of replacement by ancillaries . |
| 9 | To an observer Wexford might be thought only to be sitting , like many other inhabitants of Kingsmarkham , waiting for the storm to break . |
| 10 | She did n't want anyone to talk to her so she could be seen not to be alone . |
| 11 | The sanctions had been imposed on Nov. 8 [ see p. 38559 ] with the proviso that they be lifted against republics which could be shown not to be participating in aggression . |
| 12 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 13 | ‘ I am fully conscious of the fact that in so concluding I may be said not to be applying Reg. v. Morris . |
| 14 | They may be designed primarily to be cut for hay or silage , for grazing , or for a combination of cutting and grazing . |
| 15 | Similarly , the stamp may obscure other provisions ; if this is the case , they may be held not to be incorporated ( Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 ; Sugar v London Midland and Scottish Railway [ 1941 ] 1 All ER 172 ) . |
| 16 | That this is the case may be thought not to be chance . |
| 17 | ‘ These arguments ( against fast foods ) use lack of balance to dramatize a point that would be seen instantly to be ludicrous if presented reasonably . |
| 18 | Again then , knowing these people somewhat , I feel they would follow the apparent winner and South Korea would be gobbled up to be added to the rest of Red Asia . |
| 19 | If the hon. Gentleman reads the speech by the Secretary of State 's predecessor , he will find that he promised that five places would be set aside to be decided by the local authorities . |
| 20 | A payment made in respect of a claim arising under this Section where the only damage sustained by such motor car is breakage of glass in the windscreen or the windows ( or any scratching of bodywork resulting solely and directly from such breakage ) shall be deemed not to be a claim under the Policy for the purpose of the No Claim Bonus Section . |
| 21 | Three species of owl produce slightly higher levels of breakage of the teeth of their prey , mainly of isolated teeth rather than those preserved in the jaws , and these will be seen below to be the same species that produce the greatest degrees of digestion , namely the European eagle owl , tawny owl and little owl . |
| 22 | Moreover , since it is said in a context where Adam has just manifestly failed to react to the punch-line as quickly as the set of other students , the speaker ( given this type of speaker to this type of hearer in this type of surroundings ) will be assumed not to be intending to tell an untruth , but to be implicating the opposite of what she has said . |
| 23 | The Marsham Street development has been adjudged too brutal for the London landscape and will be knocked down to be replaced by a single six-storey scheme . |
| 24 | Sometimes the tail-end of a sequence exhibiting sequential affinity , can be seen also to be part of a localised example of integral affinity . |
| 25 | Flexible plastic cisterns are circular and are particularly useful — they can be squashed enough to be squeezed through the loft hatch . |
| 26 | But of course it is only reassuring if the person can be relied on to be there whenever the need arises — and you can be sure that that is bound to be during the last class hour on the longest teaching day of the week . |
| 27 | However , it will presumably be rare that a business can be held not to be acting in the course of business if it sells goods on its standard terms . |