Example sentences of "as they [be] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures from the United Kingdom , acknowledged as they are to be the most accurate , still underestimate the true incidence of infection . |
| 2 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |
| 3 | Latterly it has become increasingly apparent that neighbouring small-scale communities , even when they are lumped together under the same " tribal " label , are just as likely to be sharply contrasted as they are to be very much the same . |
| 4 | But , in so far as they are to be seen as sons of the lost primal mother , they clearly represent the manic alternative to the depressive self-punishment of the followers of Cybele or the castrated and killed sons of the Great Mother represented by Attis and Tammuz , by the dead and dismembered Osiris , or the crucified Christ . |
| 5 | The tuners are Jackson-stamped Gotohs and have proved in the past to be man enough for the job , relegated as they are to being mere anchor points for the strings , taking into account the Floyd Rose licensed tremolo employed here . |
| 6 | Close as they are to being sold , electricity and water will be largely unaffected by this week 's change . |
| 7 | Of the two assessors , as they were to be referred to , Samuel Angell ( 1800–66 ) was the better known . |
| 8 | According to the US consul in Saigon , three and a half of these four statements were completely false but , in fact , not only may Under-Secretary of State Dean Acheson have offered the ‘ good offices ’ of the US ( as they were to be offered in Indonesia ) but there was also at the same time in effect a plea from Moffat , then in Singapore , that for various reasons the US should intervene . |
| 9 | Such , therefore , should be the character in the followers of Jesus , called as they were to be ‘ holy ’ or ‘ separated to God ’ as his special possession ( I Pet . |