Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be considered [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 2 | [ The named man ] met his death at your hands in a manner which must be considered revolting by all right thinking people . |
| 3 | After 1999 , Aegon will be able to inject any amount of new capital and should this be approved by the voting trust — which must be likely should it wish to generate more profits through business growth for the with-profits policyholders — then the with-profits fund must match Aegon 's injections ( which must be considered unlikely given the huge resources Aegon has access to ) or see its stake in the company diluted . |
| 4 | In psychotic disorder , thinking , emotions , attention and communication can be affected , seriously interfering with the person 's ability to function in a way which might be considered normal . |
| 5 | ( Specific processes which might be considered unfair will be discussed later . ) |
| 6 | The question of the sort of relations between journalists and politicians which could be considered proper was to remain of great importance in determining the changing role of the press . |
| 7 | In many cases homoeopathic treatment is much more successful than orthodox treatment and can achieve results which would be considered impossible with orthodox treatment . |
| 8 | Nationalism encourages a collective vanity , paeans of self-praise ( ‘ We are the greatest ’ ) , which would be considered childish in an adult . |
| 9 | Many dictate that you must give up your smelly , messy , untrained child-eater ( their opinion , not ours ) before you may be considered lucky enough to be offered lodgings . |
| 10 | The British approach to social policy as developed in the nineteenth century both understood this distinction and exploited it by making the workhouse the only alternative to family care and then deliberately creating conditions in workhouses which were both undesirable in terms of physical conditions and also reinforced a sense of shame , so that any relative who could be considered available would feel obliged to offer support . |
| 11 | They must be considered reasonable by the parties to them at the time of entering into the contract and they must also be seen as reasonable from an objective point of view . |
| 12 | They might be considered likely to feed on flowers at a time , such as the dry season , when there is a scarcity of fruit . |
| 13 | ‘ Although it seemed natural to expect that some word match scores should be good enough that they could be considered correct , thereby eliminating attempts to find alternatives to them , in fact all attempts to implement such an intuition seemed to have led to at best indifferent results and usually to positive degradation . |
| 14 | Alternatively , it may be considered appropriate to make a series of short recordings in different settings and compare the results . |
| 15 | For example , in many cases it may be considered sufficient to order the parties to file and deliver lists only of the documents they actually possess . |
| 16 | From a policy perspective , it may be considered propitious that the patterns of fertility that impair the health of infants and young children are the same reproductive characteristics that bear in a maleficent sense upon the well-being of mothers . |
| 17 | It may be considered advisable with small units which form a chain of enterprises to expand trading by means of partnership or sole trading so that initial losses made in new units may be offset against profit obtained through trading at established units . |
| 18 | Hence it may be considered desirable for the subsidy not to be made available , and for marginal cost pricing to be replaced by average cost pricing . |
| 19 | In particular , it may be considered desirable to have universal access to basic utilities and essential services . |
| 20 | His target , when he should be considered fit and ready , was the European centre of SIS operations , a house in The Hague disguised as the ‘ Continental Trading Corporation ’ , where he was to join the staff of agents run by Major H. R. Stevens and his deputy , Captain S. Payne Best . |
| 21 | For any economic system to work and survive it must be considered legitimate . |
| 22 | It might be considered surprising that the firm refused to supply British Rail with a copy of its report prior to publication , even though much of the information it used was obtained in its capacity as consulting engineers to the BR board in relation to a planning appeal for a location to the north end of the King 's Cross site . |
| 23 | In comparison with those they had passed along the way , it could be considered small . |
| 24 | Is there a danger he could be considered mad ? |
| 25 | Later on the same page he makes this challenging statement ‘ If any of us actually had the power to release souls from purgatory and refused to exercise that power except in return for a payment of money he would be considered cruel and unchristian — which indeed he would be . ’ |
| 26 | In a group of 20 or 30 youngsters from the background described by my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) it would be considered odd for someone to be puffing away and spreading filth in the direction of others in that group . |
| 27 | Nowadays it would be considered kinky indeed for a Catholic priest to acquire a tonsure at the hairdressers — or to parade around in soutane and biretta . |
| 28 | Although not illegal , it would be considered unethical , and as long as Crevecoeur could pay back whatever money Jahsaxa claimed SHe 'd cost her , the contract would be dissolved . |
| 29 | There is a quite separate consideration relating to species composition of prey assemblages , and this is the extent to which it can be considered diagnostic of the habitats from which the assemblage has been derived . |
| 30 | By 1971 there had been a further reduction in this proportion , so that only 4.3 per cent of the population lived beyond what may be considered practical limits for commuting to metropolitan labour market centres . |