Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The relevant indifference curve may be considered to be that of a ‘ representative voter ’ . |
2 | What will happen in fact is that you 'll have a start date for your system , which was basically when N1 was , and what they will be looking for is that everything from that date forward is complying right so that a job that started before then , they wo n't look for the initial part of that job to comply right as of that date onwards they will look for it to comply . |
3 | In this context , management development can be seen to be any learning experience undergone by those holding managerial roles in an organisation . |
4 | The ultimate ‘ aim ’ of beauty , if there can be said to be such a thing , is to point us towards the spiritual realm . |
5 | For much of the next generation there could scarcely be said to be such a thing as a French army , for a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's soldiers came from Scotland . |
6 | So long as I hold the office of Home Secretary , I shall give no countenance to the view that they should not be prevented from being such a danger . ’ |
7 | The structure of a cell 's genetic material may soon be appreciated to be much more fluid than previously supposed , with a grey area emerging between truly chromosomal genetic material and the mobile genes of transposons , viruses , and as yet undiscovered entities . |
8 | What we would be dealing with are more of the implications , or this is how , for whatever reasons , it has come to pass that people write journalistic stories in this kind of way — might there not be other , better , more adequate ways of writing journalistic stories ? |
9 | The best that can be hoped for is that government intervention improves the social efficiency of resource allocation , rather than achieving optimality . |
10 | Thus some ‘ truth ’ can be created , and rank equal in human esteem with truth which can be observed to be such , or proved in some other way . |
11 | Or , further , is it possible to incorporate in the framework of the state itself some provision or institution by which a governmental act or command ultra vires may be declared to be such , and subjects therefore exempted from its operation and released from any legal obligation to observe or obey it ? |
12 | Harris has argued that the value of life can only sensibly be taken to be that value that those alive place on their lives . |
13 | Accordingly , where the parcels are described simply by references to the Ordnance map ( either by specifying the numbers of the enclosures or by a plan that prevails over a verbal description ) the parcels will be taken to be those shown on the Ordnance map ( Fisher v Winch ) . |
14 | Furthermore , in whole body calorimetry studies when total H 2 and CH 4 excretion were measured in healthy subjects eating test meals of various fermentable carbohydrates , the amount of excreted H 2 that could be accounted for was much less in non-methanogenic subjects . |
15 | Other biblical passages ( stage two ) may then be held to be less than adequate in terms of this criterion . |