Example sentences of "a [noun] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a payment is required to be made to a third party ( trader , government , etc. ) the bank depositor draws , i.e. writes , a cheque on his bank payable to the third party . |
| 2 | It would be desirable if randomised trials in general , and preventive trials in particular , were an integral part of medical practice , adopted whenever a new approach needed assessment and a trial was judged to be the best way of accomplishing this objective . |
| 3 | However , a decision is believed to be imminient and reports suggest the SFO will take no further action . |
| 4 | In the , case of the political decision , however , a decision is seen to be made . |
| 5 | If a decision is held to be non-justiciable the court will decline jurisdiction over it . |
| 6 | The Man with a Sheep is said to be humanitarian ; that is far from one 's experience in front of it , and the assertion is not much supported by the iconographical evidence . |
| 7 | Once again , a sufferer is seen to be mad , and his fearful sense of what he is up to can be seen to dominate the book in which it is in the end defeated or controverted . |
| 8 | As far as the extent of this limited edition being only 200 is concerned , my only reservations are outlined above : namely that a guitar is designed to be used and not coveted wholly as an objet d'art to be hung on the wall , which I suspect is exactly where the bulk of these models are likely to end up . |
| 9 | A user is deemed to be a member of staff who : — |
| 10 | A wave was considered to be peristaltic if the interval between the onset of two pressure waves , recorded at adjacent points 5 cm apart , was more than 0.5 seconds ( corresponding to a progression velocity of less than 10 cm/s ) . |
| 11 | Those born on a Friday are said to be marked out for special piety , which does not mean that they will be pious necessarily ; only that their natures are imbued with that proclivity . |
| 12 | The main problem is that a dictionary is designed to be used by a human being , not a computer program . |
| 13 | Indeed , a quota was said to be imposed on the number of warrants which the Home Office would permit the police at any one time in order to ensure that the need for existing warrants was carefully scrutinized . |
| 14 | Other refinements are also available which permit the part of the hierarchy from which a term is drawn to be specified . |
| 15 | The intention of the parties entering upon a partnership is seen to be of paramount importance . |
| 16 | If a religion is deemed to be a ‘ failure ’ , the meaning given to that word in that context should be made clear . |
| 17 | Ironically , Lorentz 's disagreement with then-Prime Minister Edith Cresson over having NEC as a shareholder was said to be a prime reason for his departure . |
| 18 | In Jones [ 1981 ] Crim LR 119 , minor abrasions and a bruise were held to be actual bodily harm , though the case was thought to be on the margins . |
| 19 | A deal is expected to be put together and announced within the next two weeks . |
| 20 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 21 | For rule utilitarianism , in contrast , once a rule is shown to be felicific , it is established as something to be obeyed , unless perhaps in very special cases , and is not to be considered merely as one factor to be weighed against others . |
| 22 | It will be recalled that , according to this theory , a stimulus is held to be fully effective only when it is able to generate the Al ( primary activation ) state in the node that constitutes its central representation . |
| 23 | If a child is found to be weak in one or more of the areas covered by the subtests , this information may provide a valuable guide for designing a programme of intervention . |
| 24 | On the other hand the needs and welfare of the child must be paramount and if a child is deemed to be in danger , or at any particular risk , the child must be removed . |
| 25 | NEGOTIATING a settlement acceptable to both sides has proved difficult but a divorce is thought to be imminent . |
| 26 | If we turn first to the best-known Tudor textbook , the so-called ‘ Royal Grammar ’ originally produced by Lily and Colet for St Paul 's School , but becoming virtually ubiquitous after a proclamation by Edward VI in 1548 ordering its use in all grammar schools — it was undoubtedly used by Shakespeare — we find that a pronoun is said to be ‘ a parte of speeche , much lyke to a noune , whyche is used in shewyng or rehersyng ’ . |
| 27 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 28 | A loop was thought to be possible and there were those who claimed to have seen one . |
| 29 | And if a boy is seen to be too concerned with his appearance , he gets called , amongst other things , a ‘ poofter ’ . |
| 30 | Suppose a scene is said to be in correct perspective ? |