Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nancy could always be relied on to be there in an emergency . |
| 2 | But she was relied on to be correct , so no-one disturbed her as she worked , her arthritic hands holding a stubby pencil , her long , old-fashioned mask covering her mouth as she murmured to herself . |
| 3 | But of course it is only reassuring if the person can be relied on to be there whenever the need arises — and you can be sure that that is bound to be during the last class hour on the longest teaching day of the week . |
| 4 | These citizens will be served by instruments of Government at Union level , which are intended eventually to be made democratically accountable . |
| 5 | ‘ I was 17 and thought I had a god given right to be in Spur 's first team . |
| 6 | However , one set of simplicities is dismissed only to be replaced by another . |
| 7 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |
| 8 | However , it was intended only to be a ‘ provisional ’ arrangement until Germany could be reunited . |
| 9 | What it essentially boiled down to was for a suitable building to be found in Moscow , while Costakis would provide the resources and materials necessary for the building 's restoration . |
| 10 | ‘ What it really boiled down to was immense immaturity in a grown man . |
| 11 | Each side panel can also be gathered in to be used as a doorway . |
| 12 | I was took on to be able to keep the written terms and conditions . |
| 13 | Tab the tinker , who had come in to be shriven , had agreed to fashion a coffin of sorts out of thin planks of wood . |
| 14 | The former are considered by the council of ICAO to be necessary to help bring about the regularity and safety of air transport while the latter are considered merely to be desirable . |
| 15 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 16 | Some plants , among them species of myrtle , produce two kinds of pollen , one that fertilises their flowers , and another of a particularly tasty kind that is designed only to be eaten . |
| 17 | However , if you are editing in camera , and if your camcorder has a fade-button , it is quite practical to put the fades in as you go if you are organised enough to be able to pick the points at which they should come . |
| 18 | If the published rates were basically those applicable to the Home Counties and tended to decline proportionately to the distance from the metropolis , many labourers and servants in the provinces may not have earned enough to be assessed . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 20 | I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 21 | Although the Commissioners are committed not to be swayed by the national interests of their own countries , it is clear that Sir Leon Brittan , the Competition Commissioner , has come up against stiff opposition from his colleagues when he has investigated anti-competitive behaviour in some of their countries , most recently over his veto of the Franco-Italian takeover of De Havilland in October 1991 . |
| 22 | They were expected finally to be freed either late last night or , more likely , this weekend . |
| 23 | It would be simplistic and indeed inaccurate , however , to ascribe a single ‘ mood ’ to the workforce , although industrial relations are considered generally to be good as memories of last year 's conflict dim . |
| 24 | Probably the only piece of Macintosh software designed not to be WYSIWYG , although a preview version is now available , it allows real typesetting control to be exercised . |
| 25 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 26 | Raven Thomson was deemed not to be insulting when he said at Bethnal Green in March 1937 that he had the utmost contempt for the Jews and that they were ‘ the most miserable type of humanity , ’ but an Inspector Jones was overruled when he reported that Mick Clarke had used no inflammatory language at the same venue in June 1937 , when other police shorthand notes stated that Clarke had called the Jews ‘ greasy Scum ’ and ‘ the lice of the earth ’ . |
| 27 | Although most agency workers are taxed and pay social security contributions as if they were dependent employees , and most think of themselves as an employee of the agency for which they work , the relationship between them and these agencies has been deemed not to be one of employment . |
| 28 | The application of natural justice in the context of discipline suffered , like the case of licensing , from the administrative-judicial distinction ; disciplinary measures were deemed not to be judicial with the correlative inapplicability of natural justice . |
| 29 | A payment made in respect of a claim arising under this Section where the only damage sustained by such motor car is breakage of glass in the windscreen or the windows ( or any scratching of bodywork resulting solely and directly from such breakage ) shall be deemed not to be a claim under the Policy for the purpose of the No Claim Bonus Section . |
| 30 | This had been the basic premise of a proposal made in late August by the Netherlands ( holder of the presidency of the Council of Ministers in the second half of 1991 ) specifying four conditions for economic convergence : ( i ) a high degree of price stability , indicated by a level of inflation close to that of the best-performing state for a two-year period ; ( ii ) a sustainable government financial position , indicated by budget deficits deemed not to be excessive ; ( iii ) currency within the 2.5 per cent fluctuation margins of the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European Monetary System for at least two years without devaluation against other member state 's currency ; and ( iv ) a close approximation of comparable interest rates to those member states with the best performance in terms of price stability . |