Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since neither House can by its own declaration create a new privilege , privilege may be considered to be capable of being ascertained and thus judicially known to the courts . |
| 2 | The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts . |
| 3 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 4 | By the nature of your job , you may reasonably be expected to be aware of the standards that are required . |
| 5 | It seems that a similar test might be applicable to international legal incapacity ; where a prior treaty is well-known and public , a third party can be expected to be aware of any limitations upon the capacity of a treaty member to enter into a treaty with itself . |
| 6 | He said , trades council delegates can hardly be deemed to be representative of the broad interests of our movement . |
| 7 | It would suggest the need for assessment in a variety of settings , and that an attempt should be made to be aware of milieu bias . |
| 8 | Eckmire , anxious to be seen to be supportive of the departing champion , added : ‘ Our sponsorship position has always assumed that Nigel would be driving for Williams next year and we echo the British public 's sentiments . ’ |
| 9 | Similarly , any leading capitalist country which wishes to exert hegemonic influence over the other capitalist economies must be seen to be capable of defending those political and strategic interests which its economic supremacy has given it . |
| 10 | Not until it does begin to react to such objects in recognisable and predictably different ways can the baby be said to be capable of noticing the objects in question . |
| 11 | A new form of layout can not , without more , be said to be capable of industrial application . |
| 12 | The attitude towards science in the Eagle could be said to be typical of UK comics generally . |
| 13 | For it is being questioned whether a symbol which would appear to be necessarily male can be said to be inclusive of all humanity . |
| 14 | Skill in letter-writing is by no means evenly distributed among the population and letter-writers can not be said to be representative of the general population . |
| 15 | Only Richard Elliott , Headmaster of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Margate , and the Reverend William Stainer , chairman of the London Schools Board Classes for the Deaf , could be said to be representative of the dominant system of education then prevailing in British schools . |
| 16 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 17 | How far can the characteristics suggested for tribunals be said to be true of tribunals to the exclusion of other forms of dispute resolution ? |
| 18 | ‘ Brother shall deliver up brother to death ’ could be said to be true of Jerome , for if he had not killed he had indeed delivered Aldhelm to his death . |
| 19 | The sample will not be random , but will be selected to be representative of children in special schools for EBD in terms of social , gender distribution and behaviour problems described by teachers at the time of referral . |
| 20 | Telling a child that he or she is bad when they have behaved wrongly is common in the West , but as Susan Sontag has observed , it is unheard of in the East , where the child would be told to be ashamed of itself . |
| 21 | Thus the total number of transactions T in the economy can be taken to be fixed if full employment is the norm , or alternatively the assumption that the quantity of money has no permanent effect on the real sector of the economy implies that T is independent of M. Consequently there should be a definite relationship between the quantity of money and the price level if the velocity of circulation can also be shown to be independent of M. |
| 22 | Its task is the Defence of the Realm as a whole , from external and internal dangers arising from attempts of espionage and sabotage , or from actions of persons and organisations whether directed from within or without the country , which may be judged to be subversive of the State . |
| 23 | Its task is the Defence of the Realm as a whole , from external and internal dangers arising from attempts at espionage and sabotage , or from actions of persons and organizations whether directed from within or without the country , which may be judged to be subversive of the State . |
| 24 | These ‘ leaders ’ may be assumed to be aware of each other 's power and reliably to report it . |
| 25 | The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios . |
| 26 | For the purposes of mens rea or the mental state of the accused , where his awareness is impaired by intoxicants he shall be taken to be aware of that which he would have been aware if not intoxicated , unless he shows either that his intoxication was not self-induced or that it was caused solely by the taking or administration of a substance in the course of medical treatment ( Section 6(5) ) . |
| 27 | No one , suggested a judge in a leading case , should be held to be guilty of theft by reason of conduct to which no moral obloquy could reasonably attach . |
| 28 | Pickets handing out leaflets to passers by may thereby cause harassment , alarm or distress , but they should not be held to be guilty of an offence on that account alone . |
| 29 | The traditional view is that there is no age below which a child can not be held to be guilty of contributory negligence . |