Example sentences of "[noun sg] [being] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | While narrowing the old section 2 , the act is unlikely to give protection to a " whistleblower " who felt that the public should be told certain information as any defence depends on disclosure being considered to be in the public interest and that would still seem to mean " the interests of the state according to its recognised organs of government and the policies expounded by the particular government of the day " per McCowan I. in Ponting 's case . |
| 2 | Under the no boundary proposal one learns that the chance of the universe being found to be following most of the possible histories is negligible , but there is a particular family of histories that are much more probable than the others . |
| 3 | Her whole being seemed to be pervaded by a dreamy languor , a torpid drowsiness , which was barely disturbed as his hand closed over her wrist . |
| 4 | To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided . |
| 5 | Force , oblige , cause , get and occasion , on the other hand , all evoke a succession between cause and effect , the infinitive event being felt to be the result of the previous action of the causal agent . |
| 6 | The use of impro in training has gone through many phases ; it still conjures up the traditional , hackneyed image of a student being asked to be a tree or an icecream . |
| 7 | Thus , the efficiency of workers may be a function of the degree of supervision and of the salary differential ( promotion being assumed to be a reward for efficiency ) . |
| 8 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 9 | A section 6(2) order should be directed to individual transactions with payment being directed to be made to individual investors upon the individual investors retransferring their Euramco shares or delivering up their Euramco share certificates . |
| 10 | Uncertainty provokes disputes ; ambiguities may be resolved contra proferentem and , in extreme cases , uncertainty may lead to a term or a whole contract being held to be void . |
| 11 | without protest , the final instalment being expressed to be ‘ in full and final settlement ’ — and the tanker was delivered on November 27 , 1974 . |
| 12 | Other analysts criticized him for being both too political and unscientific — science being assumed to be apolitical in principle . |
| 13 | In the proceedings brought by the Secretary of State for an injunction , the question arose whether the Secretary of State should be required to give an undertaking in damages to recompense Hoffmann-La Roche in the event of the Order being held to be invalid . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) The tenant should try to insert reference to the tenant being construed to be : the tenant for the time being or better still : while this Lease shall be vested in the Tenant This is to obviate the remote possibility of an argument as to whether the bankruptcy or liquidation of the original tenant ( after an assignment ) who will presumably still be within the definition of " the Tenant " could affect the re-entry provisions contained in the lease . |
| 15 | Certainly the word for spirit is female in Hebrew , and there is a long tradition of the divine wisdom being conceived to be feminine . |
| 16 | The Department of Defense refused further co-operation , the risk of a hostile audience reception being felt to be too great , and there was perceived to be an indifference to the war created by television news saturation . |