Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] considered to [be] " in BNC.

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1 For this purpose lenders should be considered to be part of the same group if they are parties to the same agreement or course of dealing , even if it is not always the same members of the group who participate in individual financings entered into under that agreement or course of dealing .
2 Recent reports have argued that the presence of ectopic endometrium may be physiological and should be considered to be pathological only if associated with symptoms or signs of progression and tissue damage .
3 No justification therefore exists for treating subfertile women with contraceptive drugs , and the endometriosis should be considered to be coincidental unless it has caused tubal and ovarian damage that requires repair .
4 He believes ‘ That all individuals should be considered to be good , worthwhile and honest until he or she proves to the contrary ’ , It is a sentiment that still today remains his guiding light , and he would add that ‘ All things are possible through God ’ .
5 All these assumptions and practical problems concerning the breath H 2 test have been discussed in detail by Bond and Levitt and Levitt et al who suggest that ‘ quantitative data of the breath H 2 test should be considered to be estimates of malabsorption of fermented material rather than precise quantitative measurements of polysaccharide malabsorption ’ .
6 It can be argued that the finding of high grade dysplasia without cancer should be considered to be a success of surveillance .
7 ( 11.30 ) In Section 10.2 it has been argued that this solution must be considered to be unphysical on its own , but it may be included as a factor in more general solutions .
8 Land reform is one of the crucial ( and most controversial ) matters facing the newly elected Hungarian parliament and present law must be considered to be ephemeral .
9 Dave Davies wearing what might be considered to be his next Kowabunga range .
10 The advantages of such a mechanism are clear , it is possible to manipulate the model and thus understand the outside world in the sense of predicting what will happen without the potential costs of attempting to manipulate the real world and allowing things to happen , some of which might be considered to be unfortunate .
11 The importance of this part of the debate is that it illuminates one crucially important difference between , on this occasion , Devlin and Hart : that is , the disagreement over whether or not it is possible for there to be areas of behaviour which , whilst they might be considered to be ‘ immoral ’ , could also be considered to be ‘ private ’ .
12 When articulated as a teaching programme for English one of the most interesting features of this urge to develop a " common touch " , or an affective bond between teachers and taught , is the centrality to be accorded to popular tastes , however " crude and unformed " they might be considered to be .
13 Again the family member will argue that this is perfectly reasonable behaviour for any family : total commitment regardless of cost to self might be considered to be the moral basis of family life .
14 An administrative receiver might be considered to be the agent of those who appointed him but this is not the case ; section 44 of the 1986 Act makes him the agent of the company .
15 A subject might be considered to be defined by :
16 Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably .
17 Such an abnormality might be considered to be insufficient to explain the severity and chronicity of symptoms , however , involvement of widespread areas of the intestine including the colon have been described in cryptosporidiosis and the extent of the enteropathy may be an important factor in these cases .
18 Alternatively , all three persons , programmer , database developer and user , might be considered to be joint authors .
19 For example , if a word-processing program is acquired which is claimed by the supplier to be a " professional package " and it does not have a built-in thesaurus , this might be considered to be a breach of warranty .
20 Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse .
21 Plea please can I ask you if you bring in any other ideas of business you 'll be considered to be
22 It seems rather grandiose to label a talk with a colleague in the same office or department as an ‘ interview ’ , but in some ways it could be considered to be one , especially if our colleague is an expert in the field in which we ourselves have become interested .
23 Despite the recent debate on VDU health hazards , which has raged furiously on both sides of the Atlantic , Cox report that ‘ there are no radiation levels that could be considered to be of concern to the normal individual ’ ( Displays Technology and Applications , vol 4 , p 7 ) .
24 Within the limits of the one party dictatorship prevailing in the Soviet Union Bukharin could be considered to be a consensus politician , seeking growth through co-operation not conflict .
25 If the pages of press coverage , including a Times leader , were anything to go by , the Granada 500 could be considered to be one of the most prestigious and important election programmes of this campaign .
26 Chambers and Trudgill ( 1980 : 90 ) note that it is ‘ not possible to set up done as any kind of linguistic variable , since it is not a form which is involved in alternation with other forms that could be considered to be ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ ' .
27 We are not responsible for any additional measures which could be considered to be of a preventative nature for the future .
28 One important caveat to the E. F. Loftus and Burns study is that the test of memory could be considered to be one for a peripheral detail .
29 Are you keeping that sort of thing that that in some ways could be considered to be a system .
30 Erm I think that that in the same way as if we went down too low , could be considered to be er a change of strategy and I think what we 're about is to try and reflect the currently er approved structure plan strategy .
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