Example sentences of "what [be] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legitimacy … does not deal so much with whether activities of government are lawful as whether they accord with what are generally perceived to be or what have for long been held up to be , the fundamental principles of the constitution according to which government is or ought to be conducted . |
| 2 | Despite what are usually considered to be marginal conditions in the Highlands , Nevis Range , the operators at Aonach Mor , and Glenshee have both invested considerable sums in the new equipment . |
| 3 | Consider what were generally believed to be the policy implications of the NAIRU hypothesis . |
| 4 | A bad press highlighted what were generally agreed to be a politician 's weak points ; a good press encouraged people to give politicians even higher ratings on their generally acknowledged strengths . |
| 5 | Faced , therefore , with the apparent metamorphosis of a colonial war and continuing French sacrifices for what were now declared to be American purposes , the US had succeeded in trapping itself . |
| 6 | In fact , the pop industry has always embodied what were now coming to be known as ‘ Thatcherite ’ values : highly competitive , determined by ‘ market forces ’ , with no grants , no subsidies , negligible government interference . |
| 7 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 8 | Bridges are being built between different confessions , and a new atmosphere of mutual respect is slowly helping to find ways of overcoming what were once felt to be absolutely irreconcilable differences . |
| 9 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 10 | The nineteenth century brought a new kind of search for the basis and foundation of theology itself ; a fresh attempt to bring human awareness and experience into the centre of theological study ; the forging of more specialised techniques for the literary and historical study of the Bible , techniques whose application helped to raise what were often felt to be disturbing and challenging questions about its meaning and relevance as well as about the standing and authority of established Christian doctrines ; and the sharp new question whether Christian theology itself ought not to be subsumed under some more general study of religion and religions . |
| 11 | ‘ But , if you feel the need to walk for miles in what is soon going to be very hot sun without any idea of your destination — ’ he threw her a dismissive look ‘ — well , then , that 's up to you . ’ |
| 12 | To say this is , it should be noted , is to make a theological point : since it is held that God is the creator , so that what is natural , and what is also found to be the case , must accord with what is God 's intention . |
| 13 | Modelling of the deep magnetic boundaries has provided good correlations with reflectivity boundaries picked up on deep seismic surveys , and images of the data and their derivatives have suggested the presence of major structural boundaries , both parallel and oblique to what is conventionally taken to be the Iapetus suture , which may be the margins of terrains assembled as part of a broader zone . |
| 14 | To be European in Italy is a logical extension of what is already assumed to be one 's natural multiple identity within a family , a city , a region and a nation . |
| 15 | One is its con-sonance with what is generally acknowledged to be one fundamental principle of justice : that like cases should be treated alike . |
| 16 | Cecil chose what is generally believed to be safe stock . |
| 17 | It is these positive examples of what is generally taken to be a negative force that have given rise to such concepts as ‘ white ’ ( i.e. good ) witchcraft ; they are part of our European tradition and lend a certain credence to Margaret Murray 's exaggerated presentation of a satanic underground cult of evil co-existing with orthodox Christianity . ’ |
| 18 | Indeed this selection of propositions reads like a summary of what is generally taken to be de Man 's contribution to the theory of language . |
| 19 | The popularity of the area , which attracts some 2000 hired boats and 3000 private craft in the summer months ( Crawford 1985 ) , is gradually causing the impoverishment of what is generally considered to be one of Britain 's most attractive wetland areas . |
| 20 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 21 | There , 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world . |
| 22 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |
| 23 | It will be seen that much Christian teaching on love is reflected in what has been outlined above , and that Gandhi 's teaching concerning non-possession goes beyond what is normally considered to be involved in the vow of poverty in certain Christian orders . |
| 24 | It has , in contrast , been Western orthodoxy to cling to technological superiority as a substitute for what is often taken to be an unbridgeable quantitative gap . |
| 25 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 26 | Difficult to know whether er Rupert Murdoch will want to sustain what is obviously going to be a fairly bruising battle for 3 years . |
| 27 | It is also difficult to understand how what is sometimes believed to be the essential ‘ minimum ’ syllabus of the three-year single subject degree can be halved without loss of disciplinary integrity . |
| 28 | We would add that to suggest giving equal status to what is currently thought to be feminine or masculine is to ignore the way in which one is defined by the other . |
| 29 | This significant paper endeavoured to extend geomorphology from what is now appreciated to be a functional viewpoint towards a more realist view , as indicated by the aim ( Strahler , 1952 , p. 923 ) : |
| 30 | Actually what is now taken to be the normal and basic meaning of the English word " family " is far removed from the meaning it carried in earlier times when the economic basis of English society was different . |