Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [subord] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who have no objection to abortion in principle feel that it is entirely within their right to abort babies who have been diagnosed as being mentally handicapped ; certainly at present there are few legal restraints , but there are practical as well as moral problems involved . |
| 2 | Individuals ' 'ego ideals ' are seen as being systematically transferred to charismatic leader figures , organisations and the values ( including those of family , church and patriarchal authority ) which are no less than a displaced version of the all-providing ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ figure of childhood . |
| 3 | Obviously , the Government share the hon. Gentleman 's pleasure at the fact that the liquidator may well be working out an arrangement with the main shareholders that would mean BCCI 's creditors possibly getting a considerably greater return on what they are owed than was previously thought possible . |
| 4 | Findings based on very limited evidence can not be regarded as being firmly established and need to be verified by means of additional observations and cases . |
| 5 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 6 | Regretfully , this weekend has had to be cancelled as is now living in Malaysia and is unable to fulfil her commitment . |
| 7 | If then , as I have already suggested we must , we challenge the formal distinctions of the analytical method , Dicey can be seen as being deeply rooted within this tradition of thought . |
| 8 | ‘ I have sometimes thought that more might be done than is commonly attempted in education to familiarise the idea of death to the minds of children by representing it as the grand event for which they were born ; and thus making a future state the object of their chief interest and ambition . |
| 9 | It was symptomatic that when the judges were excluded from membership of the area consultative committees in the formative stages by a ruling by Lane , that it was the Circuit or courts administrators from the Lord Chancellor 's Department who were identified as being best placed to act as chairmen , rather than Home Office officials who were unable to draw on any existing regional organization . |
| 10 | Sometimes , as in Kant 's theory , the idea of irreducibility of spatio-temporal relations is defended on general epistemological grounds and is regarded as being inseparably interlinked with the idea of an all-embracing unitary space . " |
| 11 | Here belief in such portents is presented as being highly suspect , and possibly an excuse for more sordid political ends . |
| 12 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 13 | The campaign is identified as being primarily directed at the government , yet , as mentioned , local authorities have a role to play . |
| 14 | Although its ultimate destruction has left no trace of the shrine 's location or size in the cathedral , it is recorded as being amply covered in gold and jewels . |
| 15 | The couple , who are both in their 30s , are described as being heavily built with Irish accents . |
| 16 | After the talks Kaifu said on March 3 that he would make " maximum efforts " to accelerate the structural reform of the Japanese economy in such a way as to improve market access for foreign traders while also improving the quality of life for Japanese consumers — a phrasing which was regarded as being carefully chosen so as not to imply unconditional concessions to the United States . |