Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone may be referred to as mulish , a vixen , a shrew , dogged , cowed . |
| 2 | Another example that can loosely be referred to as scavenging is bone collecting by harvester ants ( Shipman & Walker , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | Everyone in MAS should be familiar with the chapters applicable to all MAS engagements , the remaining chapters can be referred to as necessary when working on the appropriate type of engagement . |
| 4 | The latter two Acts will be referred to as necessary in this and the following chapters , and , needless to say , no legal adviser should be without copies of these Acts , as well as a standard reference work on the subject , when drafting conditions or contracts for the supply of goods and services . |
| 5 | My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology . |
| 6 | These may be referred to as paradigmatic or conceptual collocates [ Smadja , 1989 ] , and are characterised by an equal distribution of one term about the other within a given context ( e.g. ’ mortgage ’ & ’ property ’ can occur anywhere within the same sentence in relation to each other ) . |
| 7 | It is common practice in the carpet trade to use the term " Anatolian " to describe items made in Turkey , although they may also be referred to as Turkish or Turkey rugs . |
| 8 | Consequently , the semantic information used by the present project is acquired either from ( a ) machine-readable dictionaries , which contain encyclopaedic knowledge as well as the purely semantic sense definitions ( and should strictly be referred to as pragmatic in nature ) or ( b ) from text corpora ( which are syntagmatic rather than semantic in nature ) . |
| 9 | But if we are to talk about pedagogy , individual effort must be referred to more general ideas , otherwise there is no way for experience to be communicated , no way in which others can derive benefit from the particular successes of the individual . |
| 10 | The results of the research will be given to both national and independent television networks . |
| 11 | Because this approach appears to generate some undesirable side-effects , this chapter concludes by arguing that closer attention should be given to more direct ways of influencing migration patterns . |
| 12 | Like observatories on the ground , or the orbiting IUE , ISO will be pointed to particularly interesting astronomical objects for thorough study . |
| 13 | Resources were finite and the £1million a day cost to the taxpayer of building the Sizewell B pressurised water reactor could be diverted to more cost-effective alternatives . |
| 14 | Workers who can be exposed to excessively cold weather conditions have not only to know about survival measures during over-exposure , but be able and willing to carry them out . |
| 15 | This emphasises the importance of frost testing for tiles which are to be exposed to often severe British winter conditions . |
| 16 | Discussions about structures must not be limited to rather arid chicken-and-egg problems . |
| 17 | Using this method the idling current can be limited to very low values whilst maintaining the large voltage and current swings required to drive a loudspeaker . |
| 18 | This can be distorted to comparatively low levels in countries with non-inhabitable areas , such as high mountain ranges , large deserts or extensive lakes . |
| 19 | Whatever the status of the Newhart decision , it is clear that it will be confined to very narrow limits since to allow any such action would interfere with the primary duties of the receiver to protect the interests of the security holder . |
| 20 | Some issues may be filtered out because , they are too controversial and hence public discussion may be confined to relatively safe or non-controversial issues . |
| 21 | Hydrogen peroxide can not be added to extremely high levels of DO , because of its toxicity . |
| 22 | Layers of management will be stripped away , and all except core functions will be subcontracted to more efficient , specialist firms . |
| 23 | True ‘ living fossils ’ are really rather rare , and the term can be applied to both simple and highly complex organisms that have outlived the time when the earth was populated with many more of their kind . |
| 24 | More modern laser techniques allow much more subtle experiments to be applied to both small and large unstable molecules in flow systems . |
| 25 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |
| 26 | For those tenants who become so dependent as to require more intensive care than can be reasonably provided in sheltered housing the survey asks : " Are they to be " bolstered up " by extra warden support ( and other sources of help ) or are they to be transferred to more appropriate settings ? " |
| 27 | In the absence of money , property will tend to be highly specific , and the group it may be related to relatively small . |
| 28 | LMS was viewed as being very similar to the pilot schemes , although the heads ' opinions tended to be related to how kind they expected the formula to be to their situation . |
| 29 | Some plants may need to be moved to more suitable winter quarters . |
| 30 | It was twenty minutes later , and Morse had decided ( insisted ) that his temporary HQ in the Lancaster Room should be moved to more permanent quarters in the Chapters Bar Annexe . |