Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to [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 .
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