Example sentences of "be always [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we would examine socially determined personality differences between the sexes , why it is that men are always seen to be the intellectuals , things like that , They were important discussions as women often feel that community action is a mystery to them and that the only thing they can really understand is looking after the kids , I think the courses were a success because many campesina women became important leaders afterwards . |
| 2 | The answer to that of course is ‘ no ’ ; because honour , pride and ego are always assumed to be male . |
| 3 | Note that regimental champions ( Bosses ) are always assumed to be armed and equipped exactly as the rank and file members of their regiment . |
| 4 | Note that regimental champions are always assumed to be armed and equipped in exactly the same way as the rank and file members of the regiment . |
| 5 | Kapil Dev has , naturally enough , had to do much of his bowling in India , a country whose pitches were always reckoned to be a graveyard for fast bowlers . |
| 6 | Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common . |
| 7 | The enabling statute always , explicitly or implicitly , states , if X 1 , X 2 , X 3 exist you may or shall do Y. Yet , if X 1 , X 2 , and X 3 , and all the elements constituting them , were always held to be jurisdictional in a legal sense , the dividing line between review and appeal would be emasculated : the tribunal would have power to give only the right answer , this meaning the answer which accords with the view of the reviewing court . |
| 8 | Headmasters were always members of the council , in those days , and they were always tended to be La Liberal or Labour , which I the present Labour would say was very pale pink . |
| 9 | In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers . |
| 10 | Similarly , the violence in many sections of our own society today is , in the media , taken as proof of ‘ the animal nature of man ’ which — an insult to many animals — is always understood to be destructively aggressive . |
| 11 | When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " . |
| 12 | The proper modernist artefact is always held to be aesthetically pleasing precisely to the degree to which it exemplifies the adage that form follows function ( Benton and Benton 1975 ) . |
| 13 | He actually resembles the working class hero he 's always striven to be , the ‘ Armchair Anarchist ’ with a bottle of light ale in one hand and an incendiary device in the other . |
| 14 | The second new constraint arises from the fact that Mr Clinton was always fated to be something of a weak president . |
| 15 | ‘ The stopping and cutting of tape was always said to be very expensive , not only in the cost of the tape but also in the man hours needed to do it . |
| 16 | The period between the end of the twelfth century and the middle of the thirteenth saw several crucial innovations in weaponry and armour which helped make the medieval knight what he was always intended to be : a superb fighting machine . |
| 17 | Stocks of the attached leaflet have almost run out and as this was always intended to be an interim in-house production we now feel we should produce a glossier version on a better quality paper in the style of the leaflets we have recently produced for Community Care and Assessment . |
| 18 | If he does deliver , he will say it was always planned to be so . |
| 19 | The replies ranged from ‘ not much ’ , because the school had a bursar , to ‘ all day ’ , because a non-teaching head ‘ has to do something all day ’ or because the head was always seen to be going out to talk about devolution ! |
| 20 | Under the Net and Lord of the Flies are too philosophical to be called angry , Golding ( in any case ) was always seen to be a spirit apart , and a few of these authors were strikingly young at their moment of first success . |
| 21 | Either the Führer 's statement , the report went on , meant that he had allowed himself to be badly deceived and was not , therefore , the genius he was always alleged to be ; or he had intentionally lied to the people about rising war production , knowing all the time that saboteurs were at work . |
| 22 | The British challenge was always expected to be spearheaded by McRae 's Subaru Legacy , but Wilson confounded the pundits by snatching fifth place overall — four seconds behind his domestic rival . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Not feet wrong , no note out , meal like it was always meant to be . |
| 25 | Not feet wrong , no note out , meal like it was always meant to be . |