Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | Every problem or alien thing can by a creative expansion of the mind be seen to be part of a larger whole within the mind . |
2 | Can the car be allowed to be just a car , no longer a symbol of defence against possible demands , feelings about a prettier younger sister or a manipulating mother ? |
3 | Could cars be designed to be much more efficient than the eighteen percent you quote ? |
4 | One example can be given to show how this attitude contains its own potentiality for tilting from implicit justification to explicit criticism , should the balance between cost and benefit be thought to be changed . |
5 | Should a fossil reptile found in Scotland be allowed to be sold to Germany ? |
6 | It involves a depoliticisation of the citizen , who by definition should in truth be acknowledged to be a political being . |
7 | Implicitly , if not explicitly , papal letters could with some truth be said to be ultimum quasi robur and firmamentum of the whole case . |
8 | Only if an intervention is effective not only in eliminating this factor , but also in transforming the person 's lifestyle such that he or she is removed from this conveyor belt of risk , can the effects of the intervention be expected to be apparent ten or twenty years later . |
9 | Supervising the diggers was a large man he recognised as the Irish-Scandinavian bishop from Saxony whose name be believed to be Hrolf . |
10 | It might be bending the law , but could the director and his wife be said to be ‘ the person making the car available to them ’ ? |
11 | Humanity could then as a whole be thought to be summed up in Christ . |
12 | Would all franchisees be required to be participants as part of the contract ? |
13 | In particular , can the utility function be shown to be separate between these two types of goods ? |
14 | Should the offer be thought to be suitable , the tribunal examines the reasons why the employee has rejected it . |
15 | How can God be seen to be good when one considers what history has been , and what it has meant for women that God has been conceived in primarily male terms ? |
16 | Not until it does begin to react to such objects in recognisable and predictably different ways can the baby be said to be capable of noticing the objects in question . |
17 | The fact that Sir William Keith and a handful of others had surreptitiously managed to enter the town could by no means be claimed to be a relief and succour for the besieged . |
18 | But surely there are no acts of introspection " that could in any intelligible sense be said to be identifiable independently of their objects , analogous to " acts of extrospection " . |
19 | ( 2 ) Reasons for decisions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above ma be required to be given by the board in writing on a request being ma e to the clerk of the board , not more than 48 hours after the decision is made , by the applicant or , as the case may be , by the holder of the licence , or by any objector , or by any complainer who appeared at the hearing . |
20 | Only if it is ‘ blown ’ , for example on a tax-cut-financed consumer boom , can the government be said to be piling up financial trouble for future governments . |
21 | How far can the characteristics suggested for tribunals be said to be true of tribunals to the exclusion of other forms of dispute resolution ? |
22 | Could the pagan or Christian cults be demonstrated to be the more correct , judged by practical effects in crops , fish , and health ? |
23 | May these , as we go to still higher energies , in turn be found to be made from still smaller particles ? |
24 | I could n't say it 's new , but then could blue be said to be royal ? |
25 | It further adds that an object ‘ normally dedicated to civilian purposes , such as a place of worship , a house or other dwelling or a school ’ shall in case of doubt be presumed to be making no effective contribution to military action . |
26 | It is a story in which the case of Primo Levi , that of a dissident , gifted , magical , mustardly Jew , might at moments be thought to be implicated . |
27 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |
28 | But in what sense can the conditions in prisons be said to be unjust ? |