Example sentences of "and [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initial conditions for the chemical constituents were taken from two-dimensional model results and adjusted to be consistent with recent observations . |
| 2 | Though Christie 's says that the Vung Tau sale is lotted to encourage private buyers , with sets of between five and nine matching vases offered per lot ( and designed to be shown , as they were in the 17th century , massed together on a chimneypiece or high shelf ) , Cohen believes buying is more easily done through a dealer . |
| 3 | An attractive broadside group are the so-called Beadle and Bellman 's Verses , addressed in the first half of the nineteenth century to such town and city dwellers as ‘ the worthy inhabitants of the Parish of Barnes , Surrey ’ or ‘ the worthy masters and mistresses of the Holborn End Division of the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields ’ and designed to be proclaimed by the public crier or parish bellman . |
| 4 | Covering 13,000 square metres and designed to be both relaxing and inspirational , the centre 's facilities are quite simply superb . |
| 5 | Whereas his brother and sister , Manfredo and Margharita , had been brought up in Italy and educated to be Italians , he was a hybrid , with a mind trained to be English but emotions entirely Italian . |
| 6 | Wallace had a good goal disallowed as Strach was on the far edge of the 6 yard box and deemed to be interfering with play when Wallace scored . |
| 7 | When the midwife arrived , flustered and overwhelmed to be called inside the Manor , it was all over . |
| 8 | To enter the Kingdom of Heaven one has to come as a little child , with an attitude of trust , and prepared to be teachable and flexible ( Matt. |
| 9 | Conservatives politely queued to join the the key conference of John Major 's career and prepared to be rallied … |
| 10 | Many of these plateaus have anomalous crustal thicknesses of between 20 and 40 km and an upper layer 10 to 15 km thick with P-wave velocities in the range 6.0–6.3 km s-h These values are in the range of granitic rocks in the continental crust and so it is inferred that many oceanic plateaus ( such as the Seychelles Bank ) are drowned continental fragments originating from the edges of ancient land masses and destined to be swept towards a subduction zone in the future . |
| 11 | A key added element to the Fibres ' carpet capability is the announcement of much improved stain release technology , developed in collaboration with 3M , and destined to be a leader in the industry . |
| 12 | We need a much larger and better resourced inspectorate to enforce it so it is fair and seen to be . ’ |
| 13 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 14 | If the Christian continuum provided hope for the regenerate individual , it offered a much less satisfying answer to the more general question that had perplexed Job and so many others : why was there so much evil in the world that the Lord had made and seen to be good ? |
| 15 | Ludens , tense , said , to provoke him , ‘ Ca n't these ways be reconciled and seen to be ultimately only one way ? ’ |
| 16 | This is noticeable when short term goals can be identified and seen to be worth reaching and may well account for the very impressive efforts by schools in agricultural , sports and music competitions . |
| 17 | Symbolic injustice The importance of the Rodney King case , says Alexander Cockburn , is that injustice was done , and seen to be done . |
| 18 | The format has to be reviewed in order to restore the balance between the desire to give the playing countries enough games in the early stage to sharpen them up for the knock-out competition , and the need for a structure that is both fair and seen to be fair . |
| 19 | The duty solicitor scheme was projected as a public service by the Law Society : ‘ The prime object of a duty solicitor scheme is to provide unrepresented defendants with any legal assistance they may require and , in the context of the adversary system , to help ensure that justice is done and seen to be done . ’ |
| 20 | No longer would their errors be held to ridicule in respect of run-outs , stumpings and certain other contentious issues ( but not lbws or bat-pad catches — though there could be a case for relieving the umpires of the task of no-balling ) ; nor could players justifiably feel disgruntled for the superior eye of the camera would be deciding their fates with pronounced accuracy , ensuring that justice was done and seen to be done . |
| 21 | Yet while nobody can possibly deny the growing , and sometimes dramatic , impact of nationalist , or ethnic , politics , there is one major respect in which the phenomenon today is functionally different from the ‘ nationalism ’ and the ‘ nations ’ which combined nation-state and national economy was plainly a central fact of historical transformation and seen to be such . |
| 22 | What is meant by saying that judges must be impartial and seen to be so ? |
| 23 | Now , with this new drive of Thorfinn 's , when the adherence and co-operation of every man was important , it was a matter that must be resolved , and seen to be so . |
| 24 | Had she been less committed to parenting , perhaps because her children were older and seen to be less in need of her support , or had it been an event which threatened a role or idea to which she was less committed , perhaps losing a part-time job which she did not enjoy , the effect would be less threatening . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) If the transfer contains covenants to be observed by the buyer , he or she must execute the document in order to be bound , and seen to be bound , by its terms . |
| 26 | It should be recognised that it is in the interests of all firms involved in the provision of financial services that regulation is adequate and seen to be adequate by investors , or custom will be lost for all concerned . |
| 27 | When the King 's Commissioners subsequently descended on Cornwall he , with many other land-owners of local renown , was seized and sentenced to be hung , drawn , quartered and have his head boiled with salt and cummin-seed in the hangman 's kettle . |
| 28 | The brief suggested a paper with sixty-four pages , ‘ strong on photographs , highly readable and written to be taken seriously ’ . |
| 29 | Observing in the classroom , we have been very encouraged to see that many programs that were originally designed and written to be used with a whole class ( maybe as many as 30 pupils participating ) are very effective with groups of pupils working on their own , either with the same approach taken with the whole class or with a subset of the possible activities offered by the program being tackled ( eg , PIRATES , JANEPLUS and TRANSPOTS ) . |
| 30 | By entering the competition , all competitors will be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by these rules . |