Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradual developing defects , cracks , etc. are expected to be remedied by the Insured before they develop to such an extent that the stoppage of the machine and immediate repair which could be construed as breakdown of the machine . |
| 2 | Heparan sulphate proteoglycan , laminin , and collagen have all been shown to be linked across cell membranes to cytoskeletal elements , and cytoskeletal proteins have been demonstrated to be condensed at cell-cell and cell-matrix interfaces . |
| 3 | The subsidence costs are incurred by British Coal and so are said to be internalized . |
| 4 | In the strictest sense then , the subject of this chapter are the six Warsaw Pact members of Eastern Europe which , along with Mongolia , could alone be said to be bound to the ‘ socialist commonwealth ’ . |
| 5 | A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length . |
| 6 | A Scottish Office spokesman said : ‘ Justice must not only be seen to be done — but heard to be done . ’ |
| 7 | The model predicts that vulnerability factors can only be expected to be revealed amongst women experiencing major difficulties or who have recently experienced a severe event . |
| 8 | I think a lot of the current concern about schools being accountable is partly because things that in fact are being done are not being seen to be done , and I think if many of the things that we already done were more obviously being seen to be done , and perhaps also thought through rather more carefully as to how they were being done , the public would feel generally erm happier about what was going on in their schools than perhaps they are at the moment . |
| 9 | Edinburgh council alone is thought to be owed one hundred thousand pounds . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , local supplies may become exhausted and , with an increase in the use of charcoal , particularly in urban areas , forests far away are beginning to be affected . |
| 11 | The boldness of this interpretation lies in allowing the validity of the trust even though it had not been addressed to the daughter and had not been intended to be paid by her . |
| 12 | So far we have only considered diversification within a national market where the stock market and the shares listed therein are going to be affected by the same macro- and microeconomic forces and developments . |
| 13 | In April the Accounting Standards Board proposed that provisions for future losses and reorganisation costs after an acquisition will no longer be allowed to be taken straight out of the balance sheet of the purchaser 's accounts , without passing through its profit and loss account . |
| 14 | But what about those conflicts that do not take place within such a constituted social system , such as conflictual bourgeois societies which can not be said to be unified , except , as Sartre suggests dismissively , by appeal to a lost paradise before the class struggle ? |
| 15 | At the same time it affirms that academic staff may not be dismissed for holding particular beliefs or following particular lines of inquiry , and that senior staff may not be dismissed to be replaced by more junior , and cheaper , staff . |
| 16 | The daughter of Samuel Roberts , quite simply , could not be seen to be involved . |
| 17 | As the debt can not be required to be redeemed , its value after the primary period has expired is negligible and , in practice , there will usually be arrangements to transfer it to a party friendly to the issuer or to enable the issuer to elect effectively to redeem the debt for a token amount . |
| 18 | This is not a tenable interpretation of rule 12.12 of the Rules of 1986 , given the clear language of paragraph ( 1 ) of the rule and given also that by their nature proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986 can not be expected to be addressed by Ord. 11 , r. 1 . |
| 19 | A middle course may be achieved by the phrase : " for the purpose of delineation only " , which has been held to mean that the plan must not be taken to be drawn to scale but the lines are correct diagrammatically ( Re Freeman and Taylor 's Contract ( 1907 ) 97 LT 39 ) . |
| 20 | The granting of a lease for full consideration in money or money 's worth shall not be taken to be associated with any operation effected more than three years after the grant , and no operation effected on or after 27 March 1974 shall be taken to be associated with an operation effected before that date . |
| 21 | There are claimed benefits in academic progress and in social and emotional maturity , but the solution to the basic problem of the language and learning environments can not be taken to be solved in the mainstreaming option . |
| 22 | There was only one machine at Enfield , German manufacture , which could not be spared to be stripped and copied . |
| 23 | Its two halves are asymmetric and can not be folded to be superimposed without first turning one of them over . |
| 24 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |
| 25 | The fresh-faced , girl-next-door image could not be allowed to be tarnished by being linked with the wrong merchandise and the negotiations that went into choosing the first Kylie-recommended products were intense . |
| 26 | Their long-term viability can not be allowed to be compromised . |
| 27 | They can be rattled to produce a menacing warning sound , they can be thrust violently into the flesh of the attacker by backward lunges of the porcupine 's body , and they can easily be detached to be left embedded in the unfortunate predator 's anatomy . |
| 28 | I think a lot of the current concern about schools being accountable is partly because things that in fact are being done are not being seen to be done , and I think if many of the things that we already done were more obviously being seen to be done , and perhaps also thought through rather more carefully as to how they were being done , the public would feel generally erm happier about what was going on in their schools than perhaps they are at the moment . |
| 29 | The extra energy not being allowed to be expressed as an increase in c appears as a commensurate increase in f , that is : ( formula included ) where m is the photon equivalent mass ( yes I know it is related to E but I am trying not to confuse myself ) , E is the energy , and h is Mr Plank 's claim to fame . |
| 30 | That content too has always been felt to be linked to the aesthetic in some way — though again as of late , in theoretical studies this has not been examined . |