Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to take good note of this , for it is an aspect of Leonard 's life , little stressed to be sure , at times perhaps deliberately down-played , that is of immense significance to him . |
| 2 | I have noticed in this puritan America of ours that beautiful women are rarely permitted to be clever . |
| 3 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 4 | Speaking to the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany , New York , on July 20 , Jeffries made statements which were widely considered to be racist and anti-semitic . |
| 5 | The result was widely considered to be indicative of the government 's increasing unpopularity . |
| 6 | One of the main reasons for the Soviet failure to undermine Latin American reliance on Western imports is that Soviet industrial machinery and equipment is widely considered to be inferior in quality to its capitalist produced counterparts . |
| 7 | Although the charge carried a maximum penalty of one year 's imprisonment and a $100,000 fine , Barry 's sentence was widely considered to be harsh for a first offence . |
| 8 | An end to the worst bloodshed in recent years and the prospect of national peace and increased democracy was widely considered to be dependent on the successful outcome of three events taking place simultaneously . |
| 9 | It remained unclear to many analysts , however , whether the " no " vote was a rejection of demilitarization , or the expression of general uncertainty about the preservation of national sovereignty , given that Endara owed his installation in office to the December 1989 US military invasion of the country [ see pp. 37112-13 ] and that his government was widely considered to be subservient to US interests in the region . |
| 10 | . The patched lines on the plan which you have in front of you erm are only intended to be indicative . |
| 11 | Since neither its eyes nor its ears are sufficiently developed to be functional at this stage , it probably finds its way to the pouch by smell . |
| 12 | This is perhaps intended to be ironic . |
| 13 | Already Edward I had briefly confiscated the property of alien religious houses , and Edward II 's seizure of the Templars ' lands — neither acknowledged nor perhaps intended to be permanent — was strikingly similar to his father 's action in essence . |
| 14 | Their requirements may be similar to those of others , but at present the vast majority of goods and services on offer are only designed to be user-friendly for fit , athletic members of MENSA ! |
| 15 | In otder to minimise the influence of complications from the initial bleed , patients were only considered to be eligible for entry into the trial once they were stable with no evidence of any bleeding for five days and also no evidence of any other destabilising medical conditions ( such as septicaemia and renal failure ) . |
| 16 | Many collars , sprays and powders are only claimed to be effective against fleas . |
| 17 | He had obviously decided to be pleasant to her . |
| 18 | In spite of accounting for only 0.2 per cent of a beer 's cost , this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable . |
| 19 | On the other hand , Virtual Network Architecture is nicely positioned to be scalable to the wide area . |
| 20 | ‘ They 've obviously got to be able to speak to people at all levels , ’ said a supervisor of his field men . |
| 21 | , A blind , underground-dwelling spider species long thought to be extinct , Troglodiplura lowryi , has been found alive and well under the Nullabor Plains desert in South Australia . |
| 22 | Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's . |
| 23 | Movies only needed to be social when the plot demanded it , and even if some kind of political crisis had to be depicted in a particular story then the attitude or position adopted by the movie would be less important to audiences than the logic of the plot . |
| 24 | ‘ They were only told to be careful , ’ the depute fiscal said . |
| 25 | We 've all got to be healthy enough to challenge the situation . |
| 26 | It is fundamentally important that these 12 Steps are actually worked rather than recited or merely thought to be nice in theory . |
| 27 | But here he confuses the issue , for while print may well have initially encouraged authors to focus on an individual 's perception and cognition of the world , this does not mean that this technique is necessarily bound to be dominant in printed texts , for as the novel evolved , so did the concept of point of view . |
| 28 | How else is the good reader to learn the difference between what others — critics for example — say is good , and what is personally judged to be good ? |
| 29 | The fact that work performed-by one group is not necessarily found to be repeatable by another is nothing new . |
| 30 | It all looked so carefree , so enticingly Mediterranean and relaxed , that Caroline suddenly longed to be able to forget her business , abandon all her years of hard work , hop on board one of those yachts and sail off indefinitely towards the hazy blue horizon … |