Example sentences of "this be [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncertain domestic currency values in instances like this are always going to be present . |
| 2 | This is thus seen to be a continuous monitoring activity as changes late in the development programme , within say the concepts stage , could severely affect the confidence in all downstream activities including the actual articles being produced . |
| 3 | It is clear that finance , even for a small museum , can not be taken lightly , but this is generally felt to be a project that the Society should go ahead with , if at all possible . |
| 4 | This once-for-all improvement in the relative wage of women coincided with the implementation of the Equal Pay Act , and this is generally thought to be more than a coincidence ( see Zabalza and Tzannatos , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | There were many more such households in the 1991 Census than in previous years ; this is generally thought to be because many people evaded the enumerators lest they be made to pay the Community Charge . |
| 6 | substantial — this is generally taken to be 10% or more ; |
| 7 | This is generally held to be wildly optimistic , and in some quarters , an impossible timescale . |
| 8 | Nowadays it is thought that not much new water is generated by volcanoes or by hot springs and vapours , which speeded up in time through land-ocean changes and continental drift ; the vast majority of this is today believed to be recycled hydrospheric water . |
| 9 | The ‘ whistlation ’ lasted four days , as the pioneer had to repeat himself 808 million times , until someone realised he was whistling the words , ‘ this is just going to be a short whistle because I have very sore throat . ’ |
| 10 | This is plausibly believed to be Gorm , Harald 's father , originally interred in pagan fashion in the north mound , and later moved to the church built by his Christian son . |
| 11 | This is my first letter to this magnificent mailing networky thing ( except it is'nt really because i had one sent back the other day , but that s another story ) This is also going to be my last for a while as I 'm going back home to newcastle tomorrow . |
| 12 | This is clearly stated to be the ‘ second edition , corrected and much enlarged ’ and the original , reprinted , Introduction establishes the first edition as 1824 . |
| 13 | As conventionally studied , this is clearly intended to be a form of pseudo art history , in which the task is to locate great individuals such as Raymond Loewy or Norman Bel Geddes and portray them as the creators of modern mass culture . |
| 14 | Art dealers are looking for quality work and if the dispirited pastiches I came across in the East End are representative of the best on offer this is clearly going to be an increasingly difficult task . |
| 15 | In spite of accounting for only 0.2 per cent of a beer 's cost , this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable . |
| 16 | Indeed this is sometimes thought to be one of the justifications for diversification . |
| 17 | This is actually shown to be level with the sixth step , so if the man sensibly puts the load down at the top of the stairs then 100 joules is the answer . |
| 18 | To many Shetlanders this is often seen to be part of a more general shortcoming on behalf of incomers — their over-riding desire to maintain the status quo in local communities as soon as they are established there . |
| 19 | I think : this is definitely going to be easy . |
| 20 | This is now known to be impossible . |
| 21 | ( This is now known to be an over-generalization , for in some African societies the dead are related to as though they were still living and treated as members of the kinship group . ) |
| 22 | This is now considered to be extremely dangerous — she could bite and break whatever it is and inhale the broken bit . |
| 23 | Similar damage is done by repeated emotional abuse , and I believe that the true damage done by this is only beginning to be seen . |
| 24 | This is perhaps intended to be ironic . |
| 25 | The inspection is thorough ; it excludes only a structural survey , unless this is subsequently felt to be necessary because of apparent defects . |
| 26 | The fact that this is indeed found to be the case powerfully corroborates the theory of development being advanced in these pages and demonstrates that the apparent absence of the latency phenomenon as we know it among primitive people like the Australian aborigines is no proof of the falsity of the idea of latency as such . |
| 27 | We can confine ourselves to models of the random coil , as this is usually believed to be most appropriate for synthetic polymers ; other models — rods , discs , spheres , spheroids — are also postulated , but need not concern us at this level . |
| 28 | This was generally considered to be brilliant , although it seems to me that it was as much my father 's achievement as my own , and probably perceived unconsciously by him as such . |
| 29 | This was widely thought to be a good omen . |
| 30 | This was widely thought to be the factor which attracted Iranians to the Pasdaran and others , young and old , to the baeej , or volunteer corps . |