Example sentences of "be [det] [noun] is [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that meaning is only a complication and that social science can allow for it by regarding human affairs as simply more complex than the other workings of nature . |
| 2 | Everything in this chapter may seem terribly grey and pessimistic , but the truth is that acting is probably the most optimistic of all professions — it is the nature of actors to hope . |
| 3 | By design I mean the shapes of the individual pieces and finished look while the reason for stocking stitch is that colour is often the only finishing touch a garment needs — texture and colour work sometimes but not always . |
| 4 | What can not be claimed is that education is always the cause and economic growth the effect . |
| 5 | What is clear , however , is that monitoring is rarely a simple exercise , that the time-scales of the sponsors of monitoring and environmental research are rarely long term though most science is inevitably of this nature and that the increasingly multinational nature of such work necessitates a degree of management not always present in local or nationally based schemes . |
| 6 | The second concern is that evaluation is largely a wasted exercise unless it leads on to some action . |
| 7 | But the Department of Transport says it 's important to ban the plates because simply having them on the car , changes the driver 's behaviour and the idea is that speed is always a danger on our roads and anything that contributes to safety is to be encouraged . |