Example sentences of "they [vb mod] be [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If adjustment to these constraints appears ( on the basis of psychological and/or physiological evidence ) to be innate rather than learned , they may be said to be ‘ built in ’ , or ‘ hard-wired ’ . |
| 2 | To the extent that these parts of the social structure are based on the same values , they may be said to be integrated . |
| 3 | They may be said to be exercising an administrative function . |
| 4 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 5 | there would be a practical advantage in uniting some official knowledge of their wants as well as your artistic skill , on the one hand , with my own claims , whatever they may be considered to be , on the other ; and were they to honour us by proposing a joint appointment , I can only say that I should feel much satisfaction in undertaking this great work in conjunction with a brother Architect for whom I have so great a respect as yourself … |
| 6 | Indeed , they may be considered to be much more practical than the visions given to us by politicians and hence may be more likely to have support . |
| 7 | Such previously unimaginable impertinences must not only be done by the book : they must be seen to be too . |
| 8 | If women are to be a good test of male-oriented psychological theories , as egalitarian feminist psychology hopes , they must be assumed to be a largely homogeneous population . |
| 9 | Since it was impossible to envisage the use of nuclear weapons in any way consistent with the laws of war , and since great and apparently law-abiding Powers possessed and threatened to use them , they must be held to be simply beyond the scope of international law , |
| 10 | ( viii ) They should be encouraged to be adventurous with vocabulary choices and should be taught how to use a children 's thesaurus . |
| 11 | They should be encouraged to be out for short walks from the second week after they arrive home . |
| 12 | In that sense they might be seen to be moving in a different direction from the strongly centralist initiatives in connection with the national curriculum . |
| 13 | She wished fervently that they might be allowed to be together , that nothing would happen to make them part . |
| 14 | The importance of this part of the debate is that it illuminates one crucially important difference between , on this occasion , Devlin and Hart : that is , the disagreement over whether or not it is possible for there to be areas of behaviour which , whilst they might be considered to be ‘ immoral ’ , could also be considered to be ‘ private ’ . |
| 15 | When articulated as a teaching programme for English one of the most interesting features of this urge to develop a " common touch " , or an affective bond between teachers and taught , is the centrality to be accorded to popular tastes , however " crude and unformed " they might be considered to be . |
| 16 | To use the argument brought forward against the related speculation of Block ( i.e. about the tiny homunculi ) , one might at the very least want to deny that the higher and lower consciousnesses could , in any sense , be the same consciousnesses , whether or not they could be said to be in a physical part — whole relationship . |
| 17 | According to Townsend 's estimates , over half the people in Britain at some state in their lives may well experience relative deprivation to such an extent that they could be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ for those periods . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , they could be said to be implicit justifications of an almost fully formulated nature , in that they provide reasons for the existence of the monarchy and its ceremonial occasions . |
| 19 | But they could be seen to be so " from below " as well as " from above " . |
| 20 | They could be expected to be as obedient to the workers as they had been to the capitalists . |
| 21 | Alternatively , they could be considered to be protected by the design right as a configuration when all the components are mounted onto the board . |
| 22 | Progressive emergence of partnership forces , combined with provisional intentions and priorities , will clear the ground for tasks and levels of partnership at which they could be set to be identified . |
| 23 | Behind Lord Denning 's concern to protect these institutions ' reputation was the fear that they would be discovered to be other than how they try to protect themselves , and that their integrity would be compromised . |
| 24 | If something had to be labelled with this vogue word ‘ citizenship ’ , they no doubt felt that the more they included in their responses , the better they would be thought to be discharging the task of citizenship education . |
| 25 | Taking the present temperature gradient of 15°F per 1000 ft ( 28°C per km ) measured in the Larne-2 borehole as representative of the post-Triassic history of the area , it is estimated that where source rocks now occur beneath the Permo-Triassic of the Larne and Lough Neagh basins at depths in excess of about 11,000 feet , they would be expected to be within the gas zone with their coals generating abundant methane . |
| 26 | In the sense that these parties have provided the electorate with a clear either-or choice in both countries for many years , they can be said to be doing their job . |
| 27 | Distributors and retailers selling " own brand " goods can be liable if they can be said to be holding themselves out to be the producer . |
| 28 | Surpluses on a period of account should not be automatically lost , if they can be demonstrated to be the result of efficient working and not over budgeting , otherwise controllers will ensure that there are no surpluses . |
| 29 | Explanations of this kind have a certain political attractiveness — by making training , selection and deployment the target of reform , things can be done , they can be seen to be done , and they can be done relatively cheaply too . |
| 30 | Things matter if , as themes , they can be seen to be frequently returned to in the documents and , moreover , to be responding to the stated purposes of Pope John in calling the Council . |