Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both UA1 and UA2 were designed to be capable of detecting W and Z particles . |
| 2 | The electorate was expected to be weary of elections and possibly apathetic as well . |
| 3 | The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts . |
| 4 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 5 | By the nature of your job , you may reasonably be expected to be aware of the standards that are required . |
| 6 | It seems that a similar test might be applicable to international legal incapacity ; where a prior treaty is well-known and public , a third party can be expected to be aware of any limitations upon the capacity of a treaty member to enter into a treaty with itself . |
| 7 | The products are claimed to be cabable of operating as a client to Novell 's NetWare SAA communications server across Novell and TCP/IP networks . |
| 8 | Twelve manors , a vill and four hamlets held by subjects on the west side of the Severn from Newent in the north to Lydney , Alvington and Aylburton in the south were named : they were said to have been afforested by John , and so were claimed to be free of the Forest law . |
| 9 | For the second survey a sample of 1.7 million volumes was taken from a number of areas of the Library which were considered to be representative of the book collections as a whole . |
| 10 | The result was widely considered to be indicative of the government 's increasing unpopularity . |
| 11 | Among the BaKongo and many other African peoples , both chiefs and sorcerers are commonly considered to be capable of killing people by occult means , but only the former do so legitimately . |
| 12 | This growth area strategy has been complemented by the designation of an additional 27 rural development points considered to be capable of further economic growth , whether in industry , as in Kirkwall , or services , as in east Sutherland . |
| 13 | Since neither House can by its own declaration create a new privilege , privilege may be considered to be capable of being ascertained and thus judicially known to the courts . |
| 14 | This may be seen as a measure of the extent to which opportunities for successful study are being provided for students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving this success . |
| 15 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 16 | The stone free date corresponds to the first time the gall bladder was considered to be free of fragments and sludge . |
| 17 | And it was considered to be worthy of treatment . |
| 18 | The National Materials Handling Centre , with its interest in sustaining national expertise and development in warehouse design , decided to look at the factors restricting advances in the building of automatic warehouses in the United Kingdom and one which emerged and was considered to be worthy of further enquiry was the attention being paid to the problems of fire in high-bay warehouses . |
| 19 | Des Burke , Burmin 's Managing Director , was reported to be confident of dispelling opposition : ‘ Of course there are people jumping up and down … |
| 20 | In patients with a macroadenoma ( >1 cm in diameter ) of the pituitary a plasma prolactin concentration of >4000 mU/l , >6000 mU/l , or >8000 mU/l has been reported to be diagnostic of a prolactin secreting adenoma . |
| 21 | As more loyal forces were moved into the area , the rebels were reported to be short of supplies , and forced to rely upon food donations from a local religious group . |
| 22 | Some Commonwealth leaders were reported to be resentful of suggestions that aid be tied to democratic practices . |
| 23 | He said , trades council delegates can hardly be deemed to be representative of the broad interests of our movement . |
| 24 | And conversely , in the exalté atmosphere of Northern Nigeria , a Resident who admitted defeat at the hands of his emir was deemed to be guilty of two unpardonable sins : he disgraced by his ineptitude the good name of the British Colonial Service ; and he brought the whole principle of local administrative autonomy into disrepute . |
| 25 | The line was uprated to be capable of manufacturing a complete barrier five layer plastic tube and is currently supplying the free standing Colgate tube recently launched in the UK . ’ |
| 26 | All racial incidents are carefully monitored at divisional and area level , and senior officers are instructed to be vigilant of possible rising trends . |
| 27 | It is reckoned to be capable of cutting the death rate from fractures in older women by 60 per cent and may also protect against heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 28 | The fieldwork is conducted monthly on a quota sample of two thousand individuals selected to be representative of the adult population of Great Britain ; more details about opinion polling companies and their methods are given in the appendix to this chapter . |
| 29 | The sample will not be random , but will be selected to be representative of children in special schools for EBD in terms of social , gender distribution and behaviour problems described by teachers at the time of referral . |
| 30 | In addition , a medical mailing agency was commissioned to send invitations to participate to 2000 general practitioners stratified to be representative of all regions in the United Kingdom . |