Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This had not been intended to be legalistic , but in practice the claimant had been put in the position of an ordinary plaintiff in a civil case arguing a case against a powerful insurance company or mutual insurance society ( Potter and Stansfield , 1950 ) . |
2 | However , in the past , many observations have been recognized to be valid before any rational or logical explanation could be advanced to account for them . |
3 | The standard method of recovery must be taught because it has been proven to be effective during testing . |
4 | ‘ Such a man , with a good track record can fight for his plant and his people on the very strong grounds that investment in his region has been proven to be successful . |
5 | The allergens produced by House Dust Mites have been proven to be dangerous ‘ triggers ’ especially for Asthma attacks and allergic Rhinitis ( nasal congestion without a ‘ cold ’ ) and even in cases of Eczema . |
6 | Dyed Glassfish have been proven to be susceptible to Lymphocystis and the white marks may not in fact have been white spot . |
7 | Managers , he notes , are taught to be tough , which can mean they sometimes take a decision regardless of its ethical consequences . |
8 | ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela . |
9 | ‘ Because I have been born in England , I have been taught to be independent , original and to think for myself . |
10 | These ‘ developmental sequences ’ are intended to be hierarchical : ‘ each sequence of steps in different domains of development progresses towards and overlaps with National Curriculum Attainment Targets ’ ( Webster and Webster 1990 : 9 ) . |
11 | These recipes are intended to be unadulterated bliss . |
12 | These principles are intended to be good practices that data users should comply with in order to protect the data they hold , in both their interests and those of their data subjects . |
13 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
14 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
15 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
16 | Legal aid is not generally available for tribunals , they are intended to be cheap and both sides are clearly expected to bear their own costs . |
17 | Associations with bells or illuminated disks are rather artificial , but they are intended to be experimental versions of things that would be important in nature . |
18 | The reason for this , however , is that almost all the references are found in what are intended to be exhaustive lists of ways of acquiring property : heretics , for instance , are debarred from acquiring under any title including legacy and trust ; curial property received in any way ( including legacy and trust ) is taxable . |
19 | Practice Notes are intended to be persuasive , rather than prescriptive , and have a lower level of authority than Statements of Auditing Standards . |
20 | In the bat , the five fingers have been programmed to be long in order to support the web for flying . |
21 | Yet we have been programmed to be curious , to question , to probe and to seek to solve riddles . |
22 | Bright states in his introduction that the " audience is seen as academic and professional , but interdisciplinary ; thus articles are designed to be intelligible and useful to people in related disciplines " ( Vol.1 , p. ix ) . |
23 | Bernstock & Speirs ' hats are designed to be easy to wear . |
24 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
25 | The capacitive reactances are designed to be low over the operating range of frequencies compared with any incidental shunting capacitive reactance or resistance . |
26 | More problematic for the school as a whole are those initiatives that are designed to be cross-curricular and pervasive : language across the curriculum , maths across the curriculum , computing across the curriculum . |
27 | Many modern mains transformers are designed to be versatile , but this versatility can ( and does ) cause a certain amount of confusion . |
28 | Being keen-sighted created , we are designed to be alert during the day and to sleep through the dark hours . |
29 | They are designed to be equivalent in standard to existing qualifications , such as those of the RSA and CGLI , and to replace them in Scotland . |
30 | It has a range of public rooms all of which are designed to be light and airy . |