Example sentences of "be [pron] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be nothing which might be regarded as clandestine . |
| 2 | The need for industrial application shows the practical nature of patent law , which requires that the invention should be something which can be produced or that it relates to some sort of industrial process . |
| 3 | The threat must be one which can be carried out immediately , though " immediately " is read broadly . |
| 4 | A gang of black workers wearing white loincloths faced the camera gravely , looking as if it were something they might be given to eat . |
| 5 | There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess . |
| 6 | Generally , it is best to send out a strong opener , that is someone who can be relied upon to go all out for a victory . |
| 7 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 8 | So when his interest in the affair peters out and he 'd rather not bump into you at the photocopier on a daily basis , it 's you who 'll be left with a P45 and a broken heart . |
| 9 | " It is you who will be killed , " replied Holly . |
| 10 | Moreover , whatever your age , circumstances and financial resources , taking stock is something which must be done from time to time — it is the first step in making decisions . |
| 11 | Obviously people still belong to classes , but belief in the decisive universal agency of the dwindling proletariat is something which must be dismissed as an idealist fantasy . |
| 12 | On the other hand the point , for example , that one priest is , is a very distinct possibility , is something which could be expressed in some way I would have thought . |
| 13 | We are back with the problem which Eliot had considered in March 1914 when one of his seminar colleagues , Sen Gupta , had read a paper that Eliot had written dealing with the work of Lévy-Bruhl ‘ on primitive race-psychology ’ and the ‘ law of participation ’ , a paper in which it was stated that , ‘ Causality is something which can be explained away but not explained . |
| 14 | For the benefit of those who would suggest that section 2(1) ( b ) shows that appropriation is something which can be done with the consent of the owner , I would paraphrase that provision by saying ‘ if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew what he had done and the circumstances in which he did it . ’ |
| 15 | One of Beto 's constant themes is that classification is something which can be carried out properly only by staff who have both human insight in general and a specific knowledge of the prison system and the background of most of its clients . |
| 16 | True relaxation is something which can be learned by anyone — although , like anything worth having , it does take a little practice . |
| 17 | The order for maintenance sounds as if it is something which will be enforced in specie ; yet in fact there is neither good reason to believe this , nor any need for that to be done . |
| 18 | Since , however , the decision carries with it certain significant implications , it is one which must be made in good faith , and on the basis of the exercise of proper medical skill . |
| 19 | Since historians who confuse effects and intentions may be mistaken in other regards , the question whether the emancipators had laboured in vain is one which should be handled with care . |
| 20 | A liquid asset is one which can be transformed into cash quickly and without loss of value . |
| 21 | The ideal schedule is one which can be used by a team of interviewers and yield the same stimuli to informants with their responses being recorded in the same way . |
| 22 | A multilingual thesaurus is one which can be used to support indexing and searching in several languages . |
| 23 | This problem of the sense of identity at national government ( i.e. United Kingdom ) level is one which will be felt more acutely in many countries in what promises to be a period of mass migration . |
| 24 | And for all Karan 's bravado , it is one which will be settled not by Vestel , but by Polly Peck 's London administrators . |
| 25 | It 's they who must be made proud of the area they live in . ’ |
| 26 | Said he ai n't going no more , if I find out it 's a ladies team that 's it he 'll be banned . |
| 27 | If Brian Wilson wishes to echo the slurs of Ian Lang by referring to those organising the call for a referendum as ‘ headless chickens ’ , that is his choice , but if he thinks that is the best way to protect health , education and jobs from Tory policies , it is he who will be judged harshly . |
| 28 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 29 | The judges responded by saying that the ‘ purpose ’ of the accused was something which could be defined objectively . |
| 30 | This last phrase , used in my diary , is a revealing one : cold was n't something imposed on me by anything as trivial as the outside temperature ; it was something which could be controlled from within and by myself alone . |