Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 2 | Had expected to be sore or tired from the previous day but I felt great and was never tired , no sore muscles or any blisters on the entire trip . |
| 3 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 4 | It is designed to operate as a ‘ check list ’ of all information which is considered to be desirable or necessary for the successful execution of the Request and its prompt return to the requesting authority . |
| 5 | Whether the snail is destined to be right- or left-handed ( Figure 5 ) can be predicted very early in its embryology , from the third division after the union of its parental gametes . |
| 6 | If the ‘ upper class ’ is generally reckoned to be marginal or vestigial and the two principal classes are seen as ‘ middle ’ and ‘ working ’ then it is clear that the British ‘ class system ’ of popular ideology is not equivalent to a ruling class/dominated class dichotomy . |
| 7 | Apart from whether or not these exercises are effective ( they are certainly found to be enjoyable and relaxing by many pupils ) , they have given the teacher a secure base from which to work , for the teacher can be very much in charge , dictating the choice of exercise , controlling the length of time for each , selecting the background music where felt to be appropriate or even dictating the moment-to-moment activity within the experience . |
| 8 | I mean I know an awful lot of people outside Harlow who who come here but Harlow people could be said to be apathetic or not being marketed rightly . |
| 9 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |
| 10 | When a bank note can be exchanged for gold on demand at a bank it is said to be convertible or redeemable . |
| 11 | Accordingly , shorelines are said to be submergent or emergent depending upon the most strongly marked characteristics present . |
| 12 | They are said to be yellow or mottled brown in colour , often with seaweed-like manes . |
| 13 | Some change is certainly necessary , but by itself can not be said to be sufficient or specific . |
| 14 | But other concerns seem to centre around whether animals might properly be said to be happy or free from worry' , not in the sense of being healthy and free from pain but rather with the human paradigm in mind . |
| 15 | Is saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm so tired ’ natural tiredness-behaviour for us , in spite of the fact that ‘ I 'm tired ’ , unlike yawning , even pretence yawning , can be said to be true or false ? |
| 16 | Although it is a consonantal loss , it is not said to be ugly or careless in England generally . |
| 17 | Consider the extent to which the approach can be said to be atomistic or holistic , bottom-up or top-down . |
| 18 | However , whether the appointment was said to be express or by necessarily holding the debtor out with ostensible authority such an appointment must in practice be a very rare event . |
| 19 | Of course , no matter how explicit these conventional procedures are or how scrupulously they are used , some cases will arise , as the sample cases showed , when the instructions will be seen to be unclear or incomplete . |
| 20 | Male carers are often omitted from detailed study because they are seen to be unimportant or assumed to be so few in number . |
| 21 | In so far as the assistance of the Americans was seen to be desirable or even imperative against Nazi Germany , he feared that they would exact a heavy price at the expense of Britain 's trade and her links with the Empire . |
| 22 | The principal questions that the Chiefs of Staff Committee addressed were whether long-range missiles would eventually replace the bomber as the delivery system ; and if so , whether , in the meantime , the last generations of bombers needed to be supersonic or not . |
| 23 | The traditional division , whereby the advice worker advises clients and the manager does everything else , was not always thought to be efficient or fair . |
| 24 | Interestingly these regions of the mouse genome are thought to be paralogous or ancestrally related ( 71 ) . |
| 25 | On the ground , international observers will draw attention to any restoration work thought to be unsuitable or harmful . |
| 26 | Towns , which have been more intensively studied and for which there is generally more documentary and cartographic information , were thought to be organic or haphazard creations until recently . |
| 27 | We would add that to suggest giving equal status to what is currently thought to be feminine or masculine is to ignore the way in which one is defined by the other . |
| 28 | Identification with the community is even consistent with hostility to its laws , if those are thought to be oppressive or unfair . |
| 29 | More than one lost his head as a consequence of making what were alleged to be seditious or treacherous statements in the House of Commons . |
| 30 | You know alleged to be gold or silver from suitcases . |