Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] to be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Candidates have hitherto been required to be UNIP members and endorsed by the party 's central committee . |
| 2 | In February the Interior Minister , Col. Djibril Ould Abdullah , who had generally been considered to be second in the political hierarchy and had been involved in 1986 in the vigorous suppression of unrest among black Mauritanians , was dismissed and replaced by Col. Mohammed Sidina Ould Sidya , a southerner [ see p. 37239 ] . |
| 3 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
| 4 | This will be explored further in the next chapter ; here it must be stressed that these arrangements will in many cases have a quite fundamental impact upon the character of the policy and may thus be deemed to be part of the policy . |
| 5 | For example , an Indian village producing Kashan-style rugs can not be said to be part of the Kashan weaving group ; nor can the Persian towns of Kashan and Arak be placed together , despite their relative proximity , because of the strong dissimilarities in their rugs . |
| 6 | Hence those who take a floating charge from a company which can not be proved to be solvent , and which does not survive for a further year , can not thereby obtain protection in respect to their existing debts , but only to the extent that they provide the company with new value and thus increase the assets available for other creditors . |
| 7 | Learning to draw Islamic patterns at Eid , or Rangoli patterns at Diwali can not be considered to be mathematics unless the mathematical ideas embedded in the patterns are fully explored — considering rotation , reflection and translation can turn this investigation into one where the place of mathematics in different cultures is clear rather than leaving one feeling that examples of important geometric ideas are somehow ‘ outside ’ the real world of mathematics . |
| 8 | Constructivism seems to make this a logical impossibility , which of course means that no data could ever disprove the constructivist claims about what develops in infancy : any evidence that object knowledge ( the ‘ object concept ’ or ‘ object permanence ’ ) exists without reaching behaviour will not be judged to be evidence for object permanence — as a point of logic . |
| 9 | If costs are quadratic and investors minimize current and expected future costs , then the cost function has the form : where d i is a discount factor ( which hereafter is assumed to be unity ) . |
| 10 | The reasons for the decision might also be held to be part of the record . |
| 11 | Death also is trying to be life . |
| 12 | Thomas Baker of Fobbing in Essex , whose resistance to the poll tax was the earliest recorded sign of revolt , had indeed been appointed to be village collector of the tax ( 11 , p.205 ) , but instead led the opposition to it . |
| 13 | Humphrey of Bassingbourn 's wood of Bamfield , and the dowager Countess of Pembroke 's manor of Thorpe Waterville had likewise been adjudged to be part of the forest of Rockingham ; the Prior of Kenilworth complained that his wood of Wolverton , pertaining to his manor of Salford Priors in Warwickshire , and Robert Burdet that his wood of Arrow had been re-afforested as part of the forest of Feckenham . |