Example sentences of "who [vb mod] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are those today who may be said to be living as though Pentecost had never taken place . |
| 2 | This section , describing in accurate seamen 's language a voyage past The Dry Salvages in a fishing boat loaded with ‘ canned baked beans ’ combined Eliot 's own sea knowledge with that of the Gloucester dory fishermen , and bound these up with the ‘ well-told seaman 's yarn ’ of Dante 's Ulysses and with Tennyson 's Ulysses ( who may be related to Gerontion ) . |
| 3 | Despite this apparent vagueness there came into existence a body of individuals who may be referred to collectively as " the Left " , who were described as such by themselves and by their opponents and who acted together during the 1930s on most political issues . |
| 4 | Before turning to the competing interests and engaging in the balancing exercise , it is necessary to consider who is the public authority who may be seen to be exercising the interference referred to in article 10(1) . |
| 5 | So it 's important that they 're supported throughout by senior staff , because it 's never very easy to fit into an established team who may be used to the old ways of doing things . ’ |
| 6 | Concern has been expressed that the ordinary principles of criminal liability will draw into the net other non-violent demonstrators who may be considered to be assisting or encouraging the conduct in question and that unless such people leave the scene quickly they might face the serious charge of riot . |
| 7 | Arts groups have only just begun to take on board the fact that they have to be much more proactive if they are to tap the creativity of people who may be confined to their homes or only get out to day centres with help . |
| 8 | The professor may apply through the board of the faculty concerned to the General Board of the Faculties for leave to keep a register regulating the number of students who may be admitted to the practical classes in his department . |
| 9 | For example , the benefits of a soil conservation programme will be felt not only by the direct land users who are causing the soil erosion , but by others who may be subjected to less severe crop losses , deposition of gravel on cultivated land , loss of livestock and building or siltation of canal irrigation networks . |
| 10 | What is essential is to identify a ‘ critical mass ’ of people inside and directly outside the organization who must be committed to the change in order for it to succeed . |
| 11 | Reading the popular music press helps build a picture of which record companies deal in the different styles of music , but only by reading the trade papers will you identify the key individuals in each company who should be invited to your gigs and sent your tape . |
| 12 | A classic example of this is the need some elderly people have to talk about death — often their own death in particular , even to the point of wanting to discuss very freely the kind of arrangements they would like to be made for their funeral : how it should be conducted , what hymns should be chosen , and who should be invited to it and to the family gathering afterwards . |
| 13 | A defence motion filed on the same day , however , caused consternation with the claim that Noriega was a US prisoner of war who should be transferred to a neutral third country for trial . |
| 14 | The board ( the managing partners ) makes the decisions about who should be admitted to the partnership , who removed , what their share should be and so on , but there is complex mutual control over this group . |
| 15 | Throughout it is held that professionals and managers are people and it is people who should be brought to mind whenever such terms as professionalism and professionality or management and managerialism are encountered . |
| 16 | BRIGHTON Mark Steel is a comic who should be returned to at irregular intervals : see him too often ( and he is all over London ) and you tire of his south London patter , but go back to his schoolroom lesson after a break from the circuit , or see him off his home patch and you 'll enjoy an exercise bookful of character face-pulling , energetic storytelling and witty , like-it-is observations . |
| 17 | He described Mr Michael Fallon , the Conservative candidate , as an energetic minister who should be returned to parliament , not just for the town but for the North as a whole . |
| 18 | He bethought himself guiltily of Sergeant Crane , who might be assumed to be waiting to continue the conversation that Francesca 's call had interrupted , and padded down the corridor . |
| 19 | Beneath them , in France , there existed an ordered and fairly hierarchical structure which saw to the day-to-day defence of the country , from those with wide territorial jurisdictions to those who might be sent to a particular area , town or castle to organise its defence in time of crisis . |
| 20 | My objection was not to discussion of the subject , but to the refusal of those who might be expected to be clear and able spokesmen of the Church to commit themselves to a firm position on right and wrong . |
| 21 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 22 | This duty of care is owed to any person who might be contemplated to be injured by the act or omission of the manufacturer ( the " neighbour " test ) . |
| 23 | Apparently Swedish cows , secure in the knowledge that they were going to be stunned by true Aryans before they were slaughtered , were happy and friendly towards man ; British cows , who might be bled to death for kosher meat , had no such guarantee and were morose and sullen as a result . |
| 24 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 25 | My father and I are not very close — I 'm not a son who could be sent to sea . " |
| 26 | Daniel , though his ferocious passion for his wife 's body included its swollen state , was not a man who could be brought to a close interest in this unseen life . |
| 27 | On the other hand where a family has a number of teenage children who could be expected to be in charge of their own belongings then we should consider applying the policy wording and deducting an excess for each person . |
| 28 | If people are well trained , you 've got lots of people in turn you know when you 've got absenteeism or holidays , you 've got lots of people who could be slotted to different positions for you and obviously the better trained people are , it does help with the talent , it makes you more flexible and you 've got more people who can possibly go for certain jobs . |
| 29 | In desperation she threw the umbrella into the foyer , hoping there was somebody out of sight in the box office who 'd be alerted to her jeopardy . |
| 30 | And Mrs Tuckett had shrieked with laughter because she probably was the sort of woman who laughed loudly in pubs , but would never intentionally hurt anyone , and who would be cut to the marrow when she heard of her only son 's death . |