Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Today she said : ‘ Naturally job losses tend to be highlighted but just a few weeks ago a new business opened creating 80 jobs .
2 However , it allows only about one third of patients to be diagnosed and therefore a negative result has little value .
3 To escape from such a condition it must first be recognized and then a strategy to move backwards a step at a time until a new route is found must be followed .
4 Indeed , consideration may conveniently be explained as merely the acceptance viewed from the offeror 's side .
5 The strength or his argument is such that it can not be dismissed as merely a distortion of the formula by which ‘ capitalism , is understood as the guarantor of ‘ bourgeois freedom ’ .
6 DEPTH — is an input parameter indicating whether all of the package structure is to be listed or just the root package .
7 While crime overall has been increasing , it must be emphasized that both the reality and the fear of victimization are considerably greater in some areas than others .
8 Your contract should clearly state the currency in which your salary is to be calculated and also the currency and place of pay .
9 Solihull teachers were strongly so , but it should be recalled that only a relatively small proportion of them had had any direct experience of the process .
10 As far as the administration of relief was concerned , this made little difference ; the public assistance committees of the local authorities could be regarded as broadly the guardians under another name .
11 Yet any individual who tried to get away with that would be regarded as either a crook or a crank or most likely both .
12 But today the diary is regarded much more as an appointments aide-mémoire , and for the ‘ ordinary ’ person the keeping of a detailed diary of daily events would probably be regarded as just a little eccentric and perhaps even self-centred .
13 The theses that Latin American socio-economic structures could not be regarded as simply a local variant of European feudalism , and that the agrarian economy was already incorporated into the capitalist system were restated and developed , and the argument that the revolution in Latin America could only be socialist reasserted .
14 They should not be regarded as simply a last resort , but involved in the consultation process surrounding possible action to prevent risk to employees .
15 In the past , the interview tended to be regarded as simply a means of collecting factual information from respondents and , by itself , of little interest .
16 By the wave/particle duality of quantum mechanics , light can be regarded as both a wave and a particle .
17 It is in this sense that language use can be regarded as essentially a matter of the negotiation of meaning .
18 The family will be regarded as basically the nuclear family — parents and children — with some recognition of the part played in its affairs by parents and siblings of the parents but excluding the wider implications of the extended family for many of our non-indigenous fellow countrymen .
19 The NCMD should not be regarded as merely a means to obtain sites and impress councils or other bodies .
20 The following study of Owen may perhaps be regarded as only a partial success .
21 So far from being something which was realized ( where it has been realized ) when universal suffrage was finally achieved , that very substantial and important achievement might reasonably be regarded as only the first step on the road to the creation of a fully democratic society .
22 Each regiment still tended to be regarded as almost the private property of its colonel and until 1753 was usually known by his name .
23 The relationship is often hostile rather than cooperative , but this can be treated as just a reversal of sign .
24 The disposal of the business will usually be a " transfer of a going concern " ( " TOGC " ) for VAT purposes , so that it will be treated as neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services , provided the requirements of art 5 VAT ( Special Provisions ) Order 1992 are satisfied .
25 If the managers , or some of them , own shares in Target , these could be exchanged for Newco shares and , provided the conditions of s135 TCGA 1992 are satisfied , and clearance under s138 , to the effect that the transaction is bona fide commercial , is obtained , this should be treated as neither a disposal of the Target shares nor an acquisition of the consideration shares in Newco , so that a manager 's base cost in his Newco shares will equate to his base cost in the Target shares .
26 The hive-up of the business will be a transfer of a going concern for VAT purposes provided , in the case of reversionary interests in property and property used for the purposes of the business , the procedure in para 5 VAT ( Special Provisions ) Order 1992 is adhered to ( see 5.1.3 above ) ; alternatively , if Newco and Target have been grouped for VAT purposes under s29 VAT Act 1983 , the hive-up of the business will be treated as neither a supply of goods nor of services .
27 And if you 're married , the rental income can be treated as either the husband 's or the wife 's , depending on which suits your circumstances best .
28 Do not the Scots realise that with better techniques , new medical discoveries and more efficacious drugs many more people would be treated if only the health service were to change ?
29 The very profusion of data that becomes available from a DFDR itself poses a problem in terms of the number of data points to be considered and even the many sheets of paper containing them that need to be handled .
30 The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’
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