Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was often to be referred to as a modern pharaoh by Egyptians when he was in power ; and in particular the High Dam at Aswan was spoken of as Nasser 's pyramid . |
| 2 | The smallness of causes the point S to be referred to as a virtual earth . |
| 3 | That a topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as the same is an analytic proposition setting out part of what " topic of discourse " means . |
| 4 | There was a tendency for both to be referred to as the Wild White or Park cattle but there are noticeable differences between them and it has been firmly established , by cytogenetic and other tests , that the British White is no more closely related to the White Park than are other British breeds . |
| 5 | I suppose to be technical it ought to be the er it ought to be referred to as the Franco- German war . |
| 6 | Throughout this document this person will be referred to as the Offline Manager and will be the LIFESPAN user who is responsible for entering information such as the number and type of media available for offline storage , and the availability of units for mounting offline media . |
| 7 | Following a long debate , the Federal Assembly on March 29 voted to resolve the issue of renaming the state ( known officially as the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic since 1960 ) by a compromise , whereby the state would be referred to as the Czechoslovak Federative Republic in the Czech lands and the Czecho-Slovak Federative Republic in Slovakia . |
| 8 | This is closely related to the more general idea of a common association base ( CAB ) : the argument is that some sort of conceptual link has to be formed between individuals which have been introduced if they are to be referred to by a plural pronoun . |
| 9 | In Part Two , it will be referred to in a similar way ; or instance , insider approaches to evaluation will be discussed as a mode of professional accountability , and inspections and local authority schemes will be examined as responses to contractual accountability demands . |
| 10 | Even here , however , status still reared its head , for Louis XIV clearly thought it derogated from his dignity as a ruler by divine right to be referred to in the final treaty in the same terms as William III , the mere constitutional king of a parliamentary state . |
| 11 | They sat together in the darkness , in front of the log fire which was welcome on a summer night suddenly grown cool , and Molly wondered why S. Kettering should be referred to in the past tense . |
| 12 | To comprehend all that was involved here , one must experience the full force of tragedy at first hand ; and here Act III of Tristan can be pointed to as a prime specimen of tragic art . |
| 13 | This can already be guessed at from the demonic intensity of his most famous recordings , and it is confirmed by first-hand reports . |
| 14 | Even though he said all these things , he is not to be heard of during the final battle . |
| 15 | Even as he uttered the words a strange noise could be heard from beyond the French windows . |
| 16 | The transition from one to the other takes place after a few seconds of observation , is discontinous and can not be stopped at in an intermediate position . |
| 17 | Our only hope for a TV of our own was our uncle John Hep who did the bins and could always be relied on for an old radio or a gramophone . |
| 18 | Practice Richard Ashworth and ors v Berkeley-Walbrook Ltd ; CA ( Russell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 27 Sept 1989 As a general rule , where a counterclaim could properly be relied on as a set-off and where it arose out of the same subject matter as the claim , the counterclaiming defendant ought not to be required to give security for costs of that counterclaim unless there were exceptional circumstances . |
| 19 | The extent to which the market for control should be relied on as a disciplinary device can be determined only in the light of an approximation of the social costs it may impose . |
| 20 | The next four instruments depend for their efficacy upon incorporation into contracts , though a codification of custom and usage could perhaps be relied on as the best evidence of custom and usage and as such be imported by implication into a contract , whilst the adoption of general contractual conditions is not the exclusive prerogative of private parties but can also be achieved by embodiment in bilateral or multilateral Conventions implemented by dispositive legislation in the various participating States . |
| 21 | Customs confirmed that parts of the leaflet could not be relied on in a recent appeal at the London VAT Tribunal by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children . |
| 22 | All too frequently the merger agreement ( which may itself comprise little more than random heads of agreement born of their production by separate teams working on specific issues ) will be relied upon as a sufficient substitute . |
| 23 | Protective equipment and clothing — including gloves , gowns , faceshields or goggles , and boots — are an important means of safeguarding those at risk from hepatitis B and other blood-borne pathogens but should not be relied upon as the sole means of protection . |
| 24 | However , agencies are subject to inspection and statutory control by the Health Authority , and so generally can be relied upon for a high standard of service . |
| 25 | Boswell that even in the absence of an express undertaking the implied undertaking against using information for an improper or collateral purpose could be relied upon to the same effect . |
| 26 | For example , the International Commission of Jurists concluded in its report on the status of the Aaland Islands that the Convention of 1856 which had demilitarised the islands remained effective and could be relied upon by a third party , Sweden . |
| 27 | It can not , therefore , be depended on as an exclusive method for avoiding conflicts between fiduciary law and regulatory rules . |
| 28 | It is suggested that these are not merely speculative lines of enquiry but can be developed from within the current body of legal materials . |
| 29 | The decisions will be voted upon at the later date . |
| 30 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |