Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Gradual developing defects , cracks , etc. are expected to be remedied by the Insured before they develop to such an extent that the stoppage of the machine and immediate repair which could be construed as breakdown of the machine .
2 The concept of field dependence was first discussed by Witkin ( 1950 ) and has since been discovered to be a relatively stable trait of the individual .
3 Tiny Andrew Morrison , who was born nine weeks early at the Countess of Chester Hospital , is among 481 children treated by a junior doctor who has since been found to be suffering from TB .
4 Candidates have hitherto been required to be UNIP members and endorsed by the party 's central committee .
5 An unemployment rate well in excess of what had hitherto been considered to be a stable NAIRU was failing to produce sustained reductions in the rate of inflation beyond the initial impact effect of the fall in aggregate demand .
6 Previously it had only been expected to be able to offer a 16-way system in its first go-round .
7 So that was what I was doing in Baldersdale — looking for survivors in what has long been known to be a botanically rich area .
8 In fact , Dunrossness has long been considered to be the most fertile and agriculturally productive area in the whole of Shetland .
9 In Britain , for example , Merseyside , Sheffield and Glasgow have long been considered to be ‘ red islands ’ within British society : the labour movement having forced out of the state substantial levels of collective housing and welfare provision .
10 Heparan sulphate proteoglycan , laminin , and collagen have all been shown to be linked across cell membranes to cytoskeletal elements , and cytoskeletal proteins have been demonstrated to be condensed at cell-cell and cell-matrix interfaces .
11 Further , the expression of a α4β1 binding site in the cellular form and its deletion in plasma fibronectin and the involvement of fibronectin in blood clotting as well as secretion and synthesis of fibronectin have all been reported to be differentially affected by alternative splicing ( 27,41 ) .
12 . Now what I 'm now going to do , I 'm going to tell you what these initials are , so if you , on the back of the piece of the paper , you make some notes , because some of these obviously are going to be what you , your personality is , but you also need to note , if you look at the type of things that you can expect from different people in the teams , or the strengths and weaknesses that some people may have in your team .
13 The subsidence costs are incurred by British Coal and so are said to be internalized .
14 But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests .
15 In the strictest sense then , the subject of this chapter are the six Warsaw Pact members of Eastern Europe which , along with Mongolia , could alone be said to be bound to the ‘ socialist commonwealth ’ .
16 A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length .
17 In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible .
18 The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes .
19 The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way .
20 A Scottish Office spokesman said : ‘ Justice must not only be seen to be done — but heard to be done . ’
21 Put that the other way round : a China that flunked this test would not only be seen to be throwing in its lot with Asia 's rogue regimes .
22 The model predicts that vulnerability factors can only be expected to be revealed amongst women experiencing major difficulties or who have recently experienced a severe event .
23 The commissioner quotes the Environmental Assessment ( Salmon Farming in Marine Waters ) Regulations of 1988 , which says that ‘ a proposed development shall only be taken to be likely to have significant effects on the environment … where the Crown Estates Commissioners consider that this is the case . ’
24 They can only be taken to be creating expectations of faithfulness .
25 Any given rise in unemployment in the winter months , therefore , can only be shown to be significant if it can be demonstrated that the rise is over and above that which is normally expected at that time of year .
26 Harris has argued that the value of life can only sensibly be taken to be that value that those alive place on their lives .
27 Even if working-class crime is promoted by the same features of capitalism as produce socialist consciousness this is no basis for automatically equating them : working-class crime may express purely personal goals or , if there are some wider underlying objectives , they can not necessarily be assumed to be socialist ones .
28 In M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 9 Morris LJ said " I do not consider that a restriction … would necessarily be held to be unreasonable merely because it could be shown possibly to extend to one or two cases beyond the range of contemplated protection " .
29 To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy .
30 To some extent this is true , since Michael Chisholm 's research has shown that subsistence land use results in settlements being not more than 1 kilometre ( ½ mile ) or so from most of their land ( Fig 59 ) and hence settlements should perhaps be expected to be 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart .
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