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

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1 Screening for disorders in which the clinical course can not be altered is generally avoided : a programme of newborn screening for disorders like Duchenne muscular dystrophy could therefore create an ethical nightmare .
2 Would the contribution made by this land on either side of this boundary you now propose , be altered were there in fact no marked physical boundary between them ?
3 I accept this evidence , and it follows that there is no arguable case that the moneys sought to be traced are now situated in England .
4 So the posts that are to be established and to be filled are exactly as those approved by the Policy Committee .
5 For someone who takes his belief that p to be justified is surely close to taking it that his belief tracks the truth of p .
6 The probability that they will not be received is 1 unless you join , when the probability that they will be received is also 1 .
7 Reception staff at hotels based in cities and large towns may have to persuade unwanted persons loitering in the reception lounge to move on and leave the hotel ; the right to refuse service to persons unfit to be received is often the authority relied on when taking such actions .
8 It has even been suggested that some coral reefs , which it will be recalled are mostly dead coral and debris , are being destroyed rather than built up : they could be relics of higher sea levels .
9 Their important characteristic is that they cut across the divisions of the formal structure and usually are very powerful if the matters to be communicated are formally confidential or affect the future of particular individuals .
10 message to be communicated is best conveyed using a variety of visual and aural techniques
11 The choice of where clients with ulcerated limbs should be treated is extremely important .
12 Upper gastrointestinal lesions that were able to be treated were often found at endoscopy and this should be the primary investigaton in such patients .
13 The need for some kind of frame of reference for thinking about the curriculum , and asking what is and should be taught is most obvious in the schools .
14 However , the question how and by whom such elements in the curriculum should be taught is perhaps relatively easily answered .
15 The next five craft to be attacked were also generally attributed to Iraq .
16 The part of Figure 5.1 to be considered is therefore the area EFGHCD .
17 The part of Figure 5.1 to be considered is therefore the area EFGHCD .
18 Another misconception is that a planning appeal is a means of settling a ‘ dispute ’ between applicant and authority and that therefore the issues to be considered are only those raised by the planning authority .
19 Nor should there be a reason why the patient should not be allowed to call a doctor of his own choice if the matter to be resolved is only one of diagnosis and medication .
20 What had now to be resolved was exactly what role I would play in the new venture .
21 Talk of problem-solving becomes translated into a message to pupils that all matters of controversy can and should be resolved ; the idea that not everything is a problem to be solved is barely entertained .
22 The problem to be solved is thus :
23 The exclusion of particular duties and liabilities requires the drafter to understand the nature and effect of the duties to be excluded , and the ways in which individual duties can be modified are therefore considered alongside the duties themselves , below .
24 The line to be edited is then left in the input buffer .
25 The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in .
26 The circumstances in which freedom might be won were clearly defined , and Alexei knew that he had sometimes thought that the lowest class in the Empire — the proles , who worked for pay — were no less enslaved and had perhaps fewer rights .
27 However , serious differences continued to present obstacles to an agreement : ( i ) the Soviet Union insisted that not all combat aircraft be included in the treaty , although it made an important concession on this point in September ( see p. 36909 ) ; ( ii ) of the five categories of weapons to be included in a treaty-aircraft , helicopters , tanks , armoured vehicles and artillery ( with troops being the sixth element in an agreement ) -consensus on the definition of the weapons system and the items in that category to be included was only reached on artillery ( see below ) ; ( iii ) the Warsaw Pact insisted on an undertaking by NATO to conduct separate negotiations on the reduction of naval forces ( see Malta summit disagreement on naval forces p. 37111 ) ; and ( iv ) the Warsaw Pact demanded that no modernization of short-range missiles by NATO take place ( see also p. 37227 ) .
28 Recognising significant aspects of the replies and matters needing to be addressed was relatively easy but the staff were distinctly apprehensive .
29 Discussions about the number of houses in rural areas , their size and density , how many should be publicly or privately owned , owner-occupied or rented , where they should be sited and how they should be designed are often presented as purely technical exercises .
30 But those to be educated were still divided into the sheep and the goats , the most goatish of all doing no examinations before they left school , the best of the sheep doing examinations in none but theoretical or language-based subjects .
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