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Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] to be " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And yet an Englishman 's relation to English culture and its traditions may be more tormented than Schniedau allows for , especially if the Englishman in question defines himself as , or aspires to be , an English artist .
2	The writer has not thought or planned out the ideas or points to be made ; the clue of " was was " and doubt about " contend " and " content " point to the speed with which it was written .
3	In addition to the landlord 's approvals there may also be other consents ( from superior landlords or mortgagees , for example ) or covenants to be complied with in carrying out the works .
4	As Hubel remarked ‘ no one needs or wants to be reminded sixteen hours a day that his shoes are on ’ .
5	Wherever I am , he rings up or follows me or wants to be with me . ’
6	Indeed , the scope of s2(2) is extensive in this respect : ( 2 ) A person who , not having reasonable cause to believe there is a right to payment , in the course of any trade or business and with a view to obtaining any payment for what he knows are unsolicited goods sent as aforesaid ( a ) threatens to bring any legal proceedings ; or ( b ) places or causes to be placed the name of any person on a list of defaulters or debtors or threatens to do so ; or ( c ) invokes or causes to be invoked any other collection procedure or threatens to do so , shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [ level 5 on the standard scale ] .
7	Indeed , the scope of s2(2) is extensive in this respect : ( 2 ) A person who , not having reasonable cause to believe there is a right to payment , in the course of any trade or business and with a view to obtaining any payment for what he knows are unsolicited goods sent as aforesaid ( a ) threatens to bring any legal proceedings ; or ( b ) places or causes to be placed the name of any person on a list of defaulters or debtors or threatens to do so ; or ( c ) invokes or causes to be invoked any other collection procedure or threatens to do so , shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [ level 5 on the standard scale ] .
8	Often , if they have a disposition to broader problem-solving , the search consultant can provide views on several issues : the potential organisational structure ; how the individual would fit in ; the likely scope of his or her responsibilities ; if the tasks he or she will be set are manageable and possibly whether candidates can be found in the market who meet a particular specification ; whether the search can be a UK-based search or needs to be international ; whether any of the top candidates can be attracted for the remuneration or does the remuneration of the senior team need reviewing ; is the nationality of the candidate important ; could a woman do the job ; what happened to the last job holder ; did he or she move on to a bigger job or was he or she fired , and was that person successful in the role ?
9	There is more to be said against the probabilistic analysis of our conception of causation that can or needs to be said here .
10	Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth .
11	an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting .
12	Someone who 's not two years old , or has to be catered to and taken care of … .
13	The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 restated the criminal offence of ‘ watching or besetting ’ but excluded from that activity ‘ attending at or near the house or place where a person resides , or works , or carries on business , or happens to be … in order merely to obtain or communicate information ’ .
14	Section 261 clarifies the position of notes to the accounts ; references in the Act to the accounts ; include any notes to the accounts containing information which the Act requires to be given and which it requires or allows to be given in a note to the accounts .
15	It is sometimes very hard to define where music starts or ceases to be , complicated .
16	An RFL 's registration will be cancelled where he or she dies , becomes an English solicitor or barrister , and will normally be cancelled if he or she ceases to be a member of any regulated legal profession or ceases to be entitled to practise as such .
17	The creation of a zonal level of administration directly under the Home Affairs Ministry was announced at the end of 1988 with the 18 existing districts or dzongkhags to be grouped under four zonal administrative headquarters .
18	Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’
19	How confident he is , or affects to be , about their disinterestedness , their alertness , the range of their sympathies , the use that they will make of the gentlest hint or nudge !
20	I 'm the sort of person who wants to do everything for the people I love and he is the sort of person who 's self-sufficient , or seems to be … = ’ she paused .
21	In this case , as in the poems discussed by Green , no addressee is mentioned or seems to be present within the evoked setting , so that the poetic persona can be imagined either as a thinking mind or as a speaker talking to himself in a solitary environment .
22	Caleb is — or appears to be — a night-watchman .
23	If in the opinion of the court a summons for recovery of land can not be served in accordance with Ord 7 , rr 4 – 10 , an order may be made on request in N 220 for service on the husband or wife of the defendant , a person living with but not married to the defendant , or upon anyone who is or appears to be authorised by the defendant to reside or carry on business in the premises , to manage them or to safeguard or deal with the premises or contents thereof ( Ord 7 , r 15(1) — ( 3 ) ) .
24	( 2 ) Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith , no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall , by reason of any defect in the transferor 's title , amount to theft of the property .
25	Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith , no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall , by reason of any defect in the transferor 's title , amount to theft of the property .
26	It can also print on A3 size paper , which is several inches wider than previous technologies allow , so enabling two cheques or slips to be printed side by side .
27	Example 4:6 Rent geared to subrents receivable YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on 1 January 1 April 1 July and 1 October in each year per cent of the net rents which the tenant is entitled to receive for the whole or any part of the demised property and calculated in accordance with the schedule hereto SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " full rack rental value " means the best rent at which the demised property ( or as the case may be the part of the demised property in question ) might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing landlord to a willing tenant ( i ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 2 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) upon which it is actually occupied ( ii ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 3 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) of this lease ( iii ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 4 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) upon which it was last occupied and in any case disregarding the matters set out in paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) of section 34(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( as amended ) and on the assumption that the rent so determined will be revised every five years ( b ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales or the Association of Certified Accountants ( 2 ) If the tenant lets or permits to be occupied the whole or any part of the demised property in return for any pecuniary consideration other than the full rack rental value thereof as at the date of such letting or permission or in return for no pecuniary consideration then he shall be deemed for the purposes of this schedule to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date of such letting or permission and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 3 ) If the tenant himself occupies the whole or any part of the demised property then he shall be deemed for the purposes of this schedule to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date on which he went into occupation and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 4 ) If the whole or any part of the demised property remains vacant for three months or more then at the expiry of such period of three months the tenant shall until the same is next occupied be deemed to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date upon which the said period expired and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 5 ) The tenant shall one month before the beginning of each quarter ( time being of the essence ) deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant showing a true summary of : ( a ) the gross amount of all rents and licence fees which the tenant is entitled ( or deemed to be entitled ) to receive in respect of the demised property and each part thereof for that quarter and ( b ) the amount of any sum included in ( a ) above which the tenant is entitled to recover from any subtenant or occupier of the whole or any part of the demised property either by way of VAT or by way of service charge in respect of services or works performed or to be performed ( 6 ) Subject to paragraph ( 7 ) below the net rents shall be the difference between the two amounts shown in the said certificate ( 7 ) The net rents shall be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors if : ( a ) the tenant fails to deliver a certificate in accordance with paragraph ( 5 ) above ( in which case the tenant shall pay interest on the net rents at the rate of … per cent from the quarter day in question until payment ) or ( b ) any dispute or difference arises between the parties in connection with the calculation of the net rents ( in which case the arbitrator shall determine the amount of interest if any to be paid by the tenant ) ( 8 ) The tenant shall permit the landlord or his agent to inspect and take copies of the tenant 's books or account or any other document or record ( and if necessary the tenant shall procure any computer print-out ) which in the opinion of the landlord or such agent is relevant to the calculation of the net rents and shall bear the costs of such inspection if there shall be any material discrepancy between the certificate delivered by the tenant under paragraph 5 above and the results of such inspection .
28	The result is an easy panel of lace with no cams to put on to the needlebed or dials to be moved ( see sample 2 ) .
29	Pavlov ( 1927 ) expressed the view that the OR evoked by a novel stimulus constituted an ‘ obstacle ’ to conditioning ; and indeed , if conditioning is seen as a process in which the OR comes to be replaced by the CR , it might be expected that pre-exposure to the CS would facilitate this process .
30	‘ For the purposes of sections 60 , 61 and 62 of the Banking Act 1987 the definition of deposit in section 5 of that Act shall be treated as excluding any sum to which a person becomes entitled ( otherwise than by operation of law ) , or comes to be treated as entitled for the purposes of sections 58 and 60 of that Act , after a petition is presented by the winding up of the institution , or , in the case of an institution in respect of which such a petition has been presented before the date on which this Order comes into force , 30 July 1991 .