Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Packer remarks that the greater willingness to join in collaboration against a consorting male may be related to the greater benefits that the altruism bestows on the recipient in these cases . |
| 2 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 3 | External views may be presented to the user through the use of host language programs or a query language but they may also be obtained through a dialogue , which approaches a natural language dialogue , or via a menu . |
| 4 | The first manner in which objects may be related to each other is as type-tokens . |
| 5 | However , this ability to mimic financial contracts may be extended to all such using calls , puts , shares and riskfree debentures . |
| 6 | a ‘ cross-curricular ’ view focuses on the school : it emphasises that all teachers ( of English and of other subjects ) have a responsibility to help children with the language demands of different subjects on the school curriculum : otherwise areas of the curriculum may be closed to them . |
| 7 | In the first instance , the certificate may be limited to the taking of counsel 's opinion and another application may have to be made to the Area Director to amend the certificate for further action if counsel 's opinion appears to warrant it . |
| 8 | Expert skills may be related to the tangible , like bookbinding or open-heart surgery , or the more intangible , like negotiation or ability to analyse . |
| 9 | Ortega 's office on Jan. 4 condemned the officers responsible and the provision of army weapons under any circumstances " to any guerrilla movement , regardless of how just its struggle may be considered to be " . |
| 10 | In many cases such user may be found to be tax-free because the taxpayer who uses the premises has not received " income " for the purposes of Schedule D , Case I and Case II . |
| 11 | The issue of interpretation concerns two different ways in which the property P may be related to the entity E. |
| 12 | For example , the transformation of is invalid , even though , as a process , ALT SKIP P may be transformed to P. |
| 13 | This difficulty may be related to the fact that deductive markers are optional — they were frequently omitted by both children and adults in the deductive marking experiment . |
| 14 | The effect of increasing task difficulty may be confined to one hand or affect both hands . |
| 15 | In this respect the role of an auditor may be likened to that of a watchdog rather than a bloodhound . |
| 16 | These cases may be referred to another agency without the NSPCC investigating . |
| 17 | Category ( e ) should also cater for the situation where a payment may be made to another insurer in accordance with current market practice as opposed to a specific agreement , e.g. a Travel insurer may seek partial reimbursement from us as Home insurers having dealt with a claim which is covered under both policies . |
| 18 | Payment may be made to the court office by postal order , banker 's or giro draft or cheques ( subject to clearance and the Chief Clerk 's consent ) . |
| 19 | Work in progress may be agreed to be brought in at less than its face value to reflect expenses incurred during the period between bill delivery and payment . |
| 20 | These Background Notes may be given to Tutors and Candidates in the Second Certificate for Legal Secretaries Examination on or after Friday 27 April 1990 . |
| 21 | In many countries there is no legal recourse to defaults on gambling debts , and a futures contract may be considered to be a kind of gamble . |
| 22 | Although a court will generally strive to resolve uncertainties and ambiguities so as to give effect to a commercial contract wherever possible ( especially where the agreement is already partly executed ) , uncertainty or ambiguity may lead a court to conclude that the term is too uncertain to be enforceable , and in extreme cases the whole contract may be held to be void . |
| 23 | An employment contract may be brought to an end by the mutual consent of the parties . |
| 24 | A music publishing contract may be offered to a developing artist after they have signed to a record company . |
| 25 | Haslam paints the picture of a corporate impresario who recognises the various talents and skills of those around him and orchestrates events so that these talents may be used to the greatest benefit of the enterprise . |
| 26 | The magnetic field may be confined to a certain part of space but the resulting electric field will pervade all space . |
| 27 | Our simple macroeconomy may be said to be in equilibrium when aggregate demand ( i.e. the total demand for final goods and services in the economy ) is equal to national income ( i.e. the total value of all final goods and services produced ) : this is often referred to as equilibrium in the goods market . |
| 28 | There are two methods by which text may be input to a computer for the purpose of recognition . |
| 29 | In particular these transformations may be applied to the potentials for the metric functions that will be described in Section 12.4 . |
| 30 | The combination of the narrator 's voice with features associated with the characters ' thought patterns may be compared to the use of free indirect thought in fictions in which the " voices ' of narrator and characters are blended , sometimes almost inextricably . |