Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is fundamental to causal explanation that comparisons are made between instances where the thing to be explained is present and instances where it is absent .
2 The Court of Appeal required the council to give such an undertaking , as a condition of the grant of an injunction , first because , as Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held , in English law the discretion to dispense with such an undertaking in cases where an injunction is sought to restrain an infringement of the criminal law is available only to give effect to a privilege of the Crown alone and does not extend to local authorities exercising the function of law enforcement ; and second because under Community law an undertaking must be given were necessary to protect any Community law right of direct effect which might possibly be affected .
3 Whether either of these claims can be sustained is doubtful .
4 So far as radiation is concerned , the major factor to be examined is cross-country variation in natural exposure , from radon and such-like .
5 What has to be examined is transferable expertise , both in the practical and the theoretical senses of the term .
6 But so far as the confusions about to be examined are concerned , it does not solve the difficulty .
7 One of the areas to be examined was criminal work in magistrates ’ courts .
8 The next candidate to be examined was arachidonic acid .
9 A large investment conglomerate replying to the survey suggested that the main advantage of employing headhunters occurred ‘ when the position to be filled is sensitive internally and externally ’ .
10 It appears that the type of injury which must be foreseen is serious injury and if that is so , the statement that indifference to any harm to health or welfare was sufficient ( Stone & Dobinson [ 1977 ] QB 754 ) is incorrect in the light of authorities from the 1980s .
11 The detection rate of cryptosporidiosis in the one year in which it was possible to be calculated was similar to the finding of 1.4% reported by Baxby and Hart .
12 After what seemed an age all that could be heard were little hiccups .
13 The first prefix to be registered was Kiikkuniemi in 1933 .
14 Yet the circumstances in which ( 2d ) might be uttered are likely to be quite different from those in which the first sentence of extract ( I ) was uttered .
15 A child is not to be taken as having a learning difficulty solely because the language ( or form of the language ) in which he is or will be taught is different from a language ( or from of language ) which has at any time been spoken in the house .
16 The aims of the course are essentially practical and the skills to be developed are concerned with language use in the context of life skills .
17 Among the alternative energies to be developed were wind-power generators and steam-turbine plants fired by wood chips , the waste product of the country 's vast timber industry .
18 And yet the process whereby the dutiful , rational , moral citizen could be developed was complex .
19 How far the private sector will be prepared to finance " special needs " housing where the return on capital is likely to be limited is doubtful , as also is the Government 's commitment to make up any shortfall .
20 Other fish that can be considered are large barbs , like the Tinfoil , as their continuous swimming back and forth can act as a distraction for the aggression of the cichlids .
21 As in the Certain Standards , among the many audio.visual items to be included were stereographic materials , apparently in plentiful supply at the time .
22 Having done this , the next area which needed to be addressed was present economic development policy as experienced in West Belfast .
23 Prior approval is not required ( except in SSSIs and National Parks in the UK , but then not from the Agriculture Department ) and in assessing schemes financially , MAFF has disregarded the fact that it has in the past contributed 50–70% of the scheme 's cost and that a high proportion of the profit to be earned is public money in the form of HLCAs .
24 Many civil laws are derived from the common law , e.g. tort of negligence , whilst in the area of hotel and catering law the majority of criminal offences which may be committed are statutory , e.g. involving the Food Safety Act 1990 and the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 .
25 The average number of casting faults which had to be repaired is well over twice as high in the alloy heads as in the copper ones .
26 Staff there , who do n't want to be named were horrified that children should be the target of a terrorist attack .
27 though the contract is not in itself unlawful , the purpose for which it is made or for which the subject matter is to be applied is unlawful or the intended method of performance is unlawful ; or
28 How the distinction is to be made is unclear .
29 However , how such a judgement can be made is controversial .
30 That such a choice between working emotionally or technically can be made is useful for teachers to be aware of .
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