Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to [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 | A term created by a leasehold tenancy agreement must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something which can , at the time when the lease takes effect , be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be . |
| 14 | The basis of that decision was stated by Lord Greene MR , at p. 370 : " A term created by a leasehold tenancy agreement must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something which can , at the time when the lease takes effect be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be . |
| 15 | A term created by a lease must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something that can at the time the lease takes effect be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be ( Lace v Chantler [ 1944 ] KB 368 : lease " for the duration of the war " was void for uncertainty ) . |
| 16 | Finally , try not to make your list too long — this will ensure that the items you really want are chosen first — and if necessary it can be added to at a later date . |
| 17 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 18 | Thirdly , the semiconducters used as infrared detectors must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero , and they can measure the brightness of only one small patch of sky at a time , rather than ‘ photograph ’ a whole region of sky at once . |
| 19 | Infrared telescopes must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero to prevent their own heat radiation from swamping the faint signals from space : hence the liquid helium cooling systems which make infrared satellites complex and expensive . |
| 20 | Ramcom 's existing cards can already be read by radio thanks to a built-in transceiver , but the new In-Charge cards can also be written to in the same way . |
| 21 | Their own wounded could be attended to at the nearby village of Eckford , and then disappear into these their own Border hills . |
| 22 | Should the patient be the person who had attended to the business and financial side of family life , then there will have to be a reversal of roles ; these items will have to be attended to by a responsible other person , usually the spouse . |
| 23 | the most expedient course to consult the architect who had already been employed to prepare plans for the particular office now to be built , and who from his official position in connexion with the Board of Works might be resorted to with the least invidiousness to the professional public . |
| 24 | Reza Shah abdicated , saying to his son Muhammad Reza , " I can not be the nominal head of an occupied land , to be dictated to by a minor English or Russian officer . " |
| 25 | 8.1 shall despatch the Licensed Software to by post or by such other carrier as and agree upon , which shall be notified to at the above address or to such address as shall in due course communicate to as its delivery address within the Territory . |
| 26 | It is a terrible thing to be clung to by a sick child if you are not used to it ; Fleury was very shaken by the power of the protective instinct which was suddenly aroused in him , although to no avail , for there was nothing he could do . |
| 27 | There are no meanings " per se " , as distinct from meaningful expressions ; and what an expression means is determined entirely by the use that such an expression may be put to within the particular language game of which it forms a part . |
| 28 | Small incidents may be over-reacted to in the strong anticipation of trouble , rendering it more likely that confrontation will actually occur . |
| 29 | I believe that the out-half position will prove troublesome for the Lions in New Zealand as I would have serious reservations about Stuart Barnes being the right player under the type of physical pressure he is likely to be subjected to in the important matches . |
| 30 | As with the state as a whole , the permeability of state agencies to civil society depends upon the balance of power between classes and interest groups , a point that will be returned to in the following chapter in connection with state enterprises . |