Example sentences of "be the [noun sg] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new threat came as bachelor James Gilbey — said to be the man recorded on the Di ‘ love tapes ’ — was reported to fear that a SECOND tape may exist . |
| 2 | He is an experienced , professional negotiator and if both sides agree to arbitration then he would be the man involved . ’ |
| 3 | But perhaps public agitation will , in the end , be the catalyst required to neutralise the threat . |
| 4 | Less dramatic but equally puzzling would be the problem posed by the patient who deliberately went on hunger-strike in order to end his suffering . |
| 5 | This used to be the system operated in the UK when banks had to set their interest rates in line with Bank rate . |
| 6 | Within a month of nationalisation , the Authority 's commercial manager had identified the more serious black spots in which tariffs for additional domestic kWh were below ¾d. — which he reckoned to be the level required to cover costs — and in the next few months prices were generally raised to this level as a ‘ first aid ’ measure , pending the development of a proper pricing policy . |
| 7 | For example , it is likely that the only person who would be held to have sufficient interest to challenge a decision on the ground of breach of natural justice would be the person denied a hearing because the rules of natural justice are designed to protect individual rights . |
| 8 | If the trustees are found to be the settlor 's nominees the settlor will be the person assessed on the trading or other income ( Dreyfus v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 441 ) although the Inland Revenue will usually find it difficult to establish nomineeship if this was not intended by the parties ( Burman v Hedges and Butler Ltd [ 1979 ] STC 136 ) . |
| 9 | If the original depositor has assigned his interest to an assignee , so that the assignee has become entitled to look to the bank for repayment , achievement of the legislative purpose requires the assignee to be the person entitled to compensation . |
| 10 | Those who depend solely on their licensed dealers to find them another Polly Peck ( probably the most spectacular penny share success ever ) are probably doomed to disappointment If they are lucky , they will be the blind led by the blind . |
| 11 | Thus far we have seen that the perspective from which to view bias is to be that of the reasonable man ; it is not to be the individual affected himself ( because he may be perverse , oversensitive , etc. ) , nor is it to be the ex post detachment of a reviewing court , ( which is the disagreement with the Barnsley formulation ) . |
| 12 | Opening a Trust account seems to be the route favoured by many hoteliers . |
| 13 | But a little reflexion on such cases shows clearly that , whatever might be the element restricted by the adjective , it can not be the subject of the clause . |
| 14 | He gave detailed instructions for the procedure to be followed if no suitable dissertations were submitted , concluding : ‘ But if no such dissertations , worthy , in the opinion of the said Examiners , of any such reward as aforesaid should be offered for seven years , then a Medal , to be purchased with the said accumulations , shall be offered for the best dissertation on any Veterinary subject thought worthy by the said Examiners of such reward , but at all times the Foot of the Horse is to be the subject preferred , and next to that the nature , causes and treatment of Glanders , and the diseases of the Eye in horses : And if there should be no successful dissertation at the end of seven years , then the amount of the said accumulations shall be disposed of by the said Governors in such manner as they in their discretion may think proper , so as they are applied for the promotion of Veterinary Science ’ . |
| 15 | The more liquid an asset is , the lower is likely to be the income earned from holding it . |
| 16 | If you do not have a heated bathroom then invest in a high wall-mounted heater , which has to be the type approved for bathroom use , and should be connected through the wall to a power source outside the room . |
| 17 | The value of the altered goods supplied back by the repairer would be the price agreed taking account of work performed and any charge by the original owner for them . |
| 18 | John Cliff , a former Trade Union leader , was to be the member nominated by the L.C.C . |
| 19 | According to Thietmar of Merseburg , Emma was in London during the siege of 1016 , and she may be the lady referred to in the poem LiDsmannaflokkr . |
| 20 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 21 | The date specified in the affidavit will be the date deemed to have been the date of service unless the court otherwise orders . |
| 22 | But for Beardsley , the man he allowed to walk out of Anfield and across Stanley Park , to be the hero appeared too much for the Liverpool manager to take . |
| 23 | Even Sidney and Beatrice Webb , in their classic history of trade unionism , said of the Act that it gave trade unions ‘ an extra-ordinary and unlimited immunity , however great may be the damage caused , and however unwarranted the act , which most lawyers as well as all employers , regard as nothing less than monstrous ’ . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) An objection shall , for the purposes of paragraph ( ii ) of subsection ( 2 ) above , be intimated to the applicant ( a ) by delivering to him a copy of the notice of objection lodged with the licensing board under paragraph ( a ) of that subsection ; or ( ii ) by sending a copy of the said notice by registered post or by recorded delivery in a letter addressed to him at his proper address ; or ( c ) by leaving a copy of the said notice for him at his proper address ; and , for the purposes of paragraphs ( ii ) and ( c ) of this subsection , the proper address in the case of an applicant being an individual natural person shall be his place of abode as specified in his application or , in the case of such an applicant applying for the renewal of a licence , the premises in respect of which the application is made , and , in the case of an applicant other than an individual natural person , shall be the address specified in the application . |
| 25 | … It was never intended that the benefit received by the airline employee would be the fare paid by the ordinary passenger . |
| 26 | We can improve on our previous gloss for now , by offering " the pragmatically given span including CT " , where that span may be the instant associated with the production of the morpheme itself , as in the gestural use in ( 53 ) , or the perhaps interminable period indicated in ( 53 ) Pull the trigger now ! ( 54 ) I 'm now working on a PhD Now contrasts with then , and indeed then can be glossed as " not now " to allow for its use in both past and future . |
| 27 | A wrought-iron girder swing bridge at the Northern Entrance Lock may be the original installed by Brunel . |
| 28 | Well these things may er describe erm sexual behaviour and how to facilitate it , but they ca n't explain it and nor are they really fundamental , because after all okay in mammals males may be the sex defined by the X chromosome , but in birds it 's the other way round in birds it 's the female chromosome and all , in other words , all bird embryos start , start out as male and differentiate into females if they 're going to , whereas in mammals all embryos start out as female and differentiate into males , in so far as those terms have any sense . |
| 29 | What , for example , would be the time-scale envisaged ? |
| 30 | You must be the user associated with the DC |