Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] to be [art] " in BNC.

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1 There was perhaps a feeling at the start that we should be seen to be a body apart from the rest of ICI .
2 In the Hackney Young Socialists there was formal recognition that women should be allowed to be the chair , or vice-chair , but in Clive 's world women were the secretaries , unless they were very sophisticated cool people . ’
3 It can be argued that the finding of high grade dysplasia without cancer should be considered to be a success of surveillance .
4 Considering that σ A -RNA polymerase can also form stable open complexes at some promoters , it seems that no general rule can be easily established , and that the characteristics of the different complexes should be expected to be a particular feature of each promoter .
5 Where committed facilities are in existence at the balance sheet date which permit the refinancing of debt for a period beyond its maturity , the earliest date at which the lender has the right to demand repayment should be taken to be the maturity date of the longest refinancing permitted by a facility in respect of which all the following conditions are met :
6 It has to be emphasised that the committee worked always in the shadow of the law : Section 132 of the Public Health Act 1875 had said that any expenses incurred by a local authority in maintaining in a hospital a patient who is not a pauper , should be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the local authority , and could be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from the hospital .
7 In that case the vessel should be deemed to be a constructive total loss .
8 On conversion , in accordance with paragraph 23 of the [ draft ] FRS , the proceeds of the shares issued should be deemed to be the carrying amount of the debt , including accrued premium , immediately prior to conversion .
9 It was then the custom of the Church of England that a curate should be ordained to be a deacon ( the lowest order of the ministry ) whose duty was to help the parish priest in all his pastoral duties but who could not perform the priestly acts of celebrating the sacrament or giving absolution or blessing .
10 If the super-organism created by a colony of termites can be compared to an antelope , then the disciplined aggressive columns of the army ants must be reckoned to be the insect equivalent of a beast of prey .
11 That copy must either be under the seal of the corporation or company , or must be certified to be a true copy by the secretary or a director of that organisation ( r 8.7 ) .
12 If women are to be a good test of male-oriented psychological theories , as egalitarian feminist psychology hopes , they must be assumed to be a largely homogeneous population .
13 Detrimental to the plaintiff it can not be , if he has no cause of action ; and beneficial to the defendant it can not be ; for , in contemplation of law , the defence upon such an admitted state of facts must be successful , and the defendant will recover costs , which must be assumed to be a full compensation for all the legal damage he may sustain .
14 In the ultimate resort also , the association of a constituency must be held to be the proper exponent of its wishes . "
15 I was surprised to note a major historical inaccuracy in your excellent article ‘ The Democrats ' dilemma ’ ( April 20th ) , when you state ‘ Mr Bush might be flattered to be the first unopposed president . ’
16 You frivolously suggest that Mr Bush might be flattered to be the first unopposed president .
17 What might be seen to be a hurdle is that the ‘ likely adverse effects on the animals concerned ’ will be weighed against ‘ the benefit likely to accrue as a result of the programme ’ ( 5.4 ) .
18 They hoped for no benefit of internal interpretation or the construal of favourable terms ; rather , they hoped that a disposition in dubious form might be admitted to be a disposition of legal force , or that a disposition in an invalid will might not sink into the oblivion of intestacy .
19 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 .
20 Again the family member will argue that this is perfectly reasonable behaviour for any family : total commitment regardless of cost to self might be considered to be the moral basis of family life .
21 An administrative receiver might be considered to be the agent of those who appointed him but this is not the case ; section 44 of the 1986 Act makes him the agent of the company .
22 Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably .
23 This might be thought to be a good thing .
24 To illustrate , I will take what might be thought to be an example posing relatively few problems — the case of the Loch Ness monster .
25 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 ) .
26 Beyond the brief : All three are prepared , indeed eager , to go beyond what might be thought to be the narrow design brief and comment on the nature and selection of the material they are asked to make attractive and intelligible on the page .
27 The Divisional Court , and the majority of their lordships in the House of Lords , were struck with what might be thought to be the obvious purpose of the Act , which was clearly passed with a view to assisting the police in the detection and prevention of crime .
28 In practice , moreover , treatments for such patients tend to be chosen empirically and worked through on a trial and error basis , whatever might be thought to be the underlying pathophysiology .
29 There was a heap of rough geological specimens , including two almost spherical stones , a little like cannon balls , one black and one a sulphurous yellow , some ammonites and trilobites , a large crystal ball , a green glass inkwell , the articulated skeleton of a cat , a heap of books , two of which could be seen to be the Divina Commedia and Faust , and an hourglass in a wooden frame .
30 I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’
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