Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] agreed [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The signature of the agreement had been delayed from December 1989 , partly over the question of East German access to the Schengen area , it being finally agreed that border controls would apply only at East Germany 's borders with Poland and Czechoslovakia and not at the existing inter-German border . |
| 2 | It 's widely agreed that anonymity has made women more willing to report rapes . |
| 3 | It is generally agreed that opposition success in the election will depend on a unified challenge to Congress , especially in the densely-populated Hindi-speaking states of the north . |
| 4 | Gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips and it is generally agreed that oak gives the best flavour , although other woods are preferred in some part of the world . |
| 5 | It is generally agreed that maize was domesticated in Mexico and that its ancestor was a grass called teosinte , which grows in the hills to the south-west of Mexico City . |
| 6 | Since it is generally agreed that intelligence has a genetic component , can it not be argued that social inequality has a biological basis ? |
| 7 | It is generally agreed that consent implies some knowledge on the part of the victim as to the type of act which the defendant is contemplating . |
| 8 | It was eventually agreed that sovereignty would be transferred to a United States of Indonesia ( USI ) before 30 December 1949 . |
| 9 | It was thus agreed that redemption , to the sun of £100 only ( 4 x £25 bonds ) , be drawn for and should a bondholder so drawn insist on taking his money then the Bolney Syndicate would , if necessary , buy the bonds so saving the Club 's strained resources . |
| 10 | De Gaulle , at Brazzaville in 1944 , may have believed that France , of all the imperial powers , would choose nobly and liberally in a new era ; on a more mundane level and on the same occasion it was also agreed that ‘ access to the riches of all that bears the French name is the most certain measure of our country 's return to grandeur ’ . |
| 11 | It was also agreed that sewage dumped in certain " sensitive " areas of the sea would be given secondary treatment . |
| 12 | It was further agreed that information and advice on Actively Seeking Work should be made widely available to claimants in West Belfast and that , wherever appropriate , the injustices of the legislation should be highlighted . |
| 13 | In February it was unanimously agreed that Sir Denys should continue as boss until he reached the retirement age of 62 , making him the longest-serving chairman since Sir Paul Chambers , who ran — and dominated — the company from 1960 to 1968 . |