Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 Dyed Glassfish have been proven to be susceptible to Lymphocystis and the white marks may not in fact have been white spot .
2 General SVQs are designed to be open to those who are not in work .
3 The prevalence rate of hypercholesterolaemia in diabetics has been reported to be similar to the non-diabetic population , that is from 8 per cent to as high as 52 per cent ( Hayes , 1972 ) .
4 Social control performs the function of defining those acts that are deemed to be harmful to the society .
5 There is no uniform or objective way of reporting events in all their detail , exactly as they happen in the real world ; the structure of each language highlights , and to a large extent preselects , certain areas which are deemed to be fundamental to the reporting of any experience .
6 They have been designed to be relevant to both small and large organisations in the public and private sectors , and take into account the variations that there will inevitably be in organisations ' approaches to developing their people .
7 The elegant slimline desktop case has been designed to be pleasing to the eye , and overall the machine seems to be well finished off .
8 The analysis has indicated that the sands are variably shaly and some anomalous log responses are considered to be due to the presence of secondary minerals , either as cement or detrital elements .
9 The thrombi are considered to be secondary to local injury , stasis or cor-pulmonale .
10 Computers , especially microcomputers and terminals with monitors , have been claimed to be harmful to the health of the operator because of radioactive emissions although at the present time there does not appear to be any conclusive proof that a real danger to health exists .
11 China and Taiwan are reported to be close to agreement on joint development of a centre for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste .
12 However , there are certain qualities which are seen to be peculiar to physics and these are crucial to our understanding of the construction of physics as a discipline .
13 Carpentier , in particular , explores Latin America 's relation to the Western world , notably in Explosion in a Cathedral , which portrays Caribbean society against the background of the French Revolution , and , in all of his works , implanted European systems are seen to be inappropriate to the American environment .
14 The differences in organisation are said to be due to innate ability , and the kind of experience received .
15 The research and development costs of these drugs are said to be close to £10-£15 million .
16 They are said to be similar to material distributed previously by Mr Round .
17 These shapes are said to be common to each of the three pictures .
18 This will take the form of Preliminary Training ; a core part in the new Module 20 which has been expanded to last one and a half days followed by a written assessment with a pass mark of 75% ; and Specialist Training — both on and off the job which has been tailored to be appropriate to the area that the prospective RPS will be working in .
19 Xorandor examines the narrative aspect of the novel by exploring the theoretical problems of story-telling from the point of view of children whose minds have been formed by their exposure to computers ; here techniques specific to narrative are shown to be central to even the most logical of sciences .
20 This education may go well beyond simply fostering understanding of the change itself ; it may include needs assessment and subsequent training in the skills and knowledge that are shown to be essential to functioning successfully in the changed environment .
21 Such social changes are shown to be prior to , and necessary precursors of , any technological changes , such as industrialization ( Marx 1974 : 318–47 ) .
22 Colorectal tumour cell lines may also express receptors specific for gastrin , and gastrin has been shown to be mitogenic to certain colorectal cancer cell lines in vitro and in transplantable tumours in vivo .
23 The creatine kinase increase in all nine infants has been shown to be due to the muscle isoenzyme .
24 In the second place , the account that has been provided has been shown to be open to differing interpretations of value ; in other words , while we may agree what the main changes in the family have been , we may disagree over whether or not we approve of these changes .
25 Furthermore , nutritional treatment with enteral feeds in which nitrogen is provided as a hydrolysate of whole protein has been shown to be inferior to drug treatment in two large studies involving adults , although a small study in children showed equal efficacy to corticosteroids .
26 Acidophilic atypical acinar cell foci in the rat have a high proliferative capacity and have been shown to be responsive to CCK , whereas the basophilic atypical acinar cell foci seem to have a low growth potential , not appreciably affected by CCK .
27 The bags of fertiliser are thought to be similar to those found at Fallswater Street in west Belfast last week .
28 Efforts to identify the coeliac toxic amino acid sequence , which presumably acts as a T cell immunogen , have focussed on the wheat prolamin , gliadin , whose four subfractions α , Β , and γ , are thought to be toxic to patients with coeliac disease .
29 At least 80% of heart attacks in men under 45 are thought to be due to cigarette smoking [ 5 ] .
30 The ‘ tails ’ of these Phromnia rosea nymphs are thought to be unpalatable to predators .
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