Example sentences of "[prep] be [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is , are you saying then that the best answer to the question of is there a clear expression of local preference is , do n't know ? |
| 2 | I find myself in some difficulty in that the statement I have prepared does not debate the merits of the inner and outer routes , but merely the question of is there a need for a relief road er and what are the benefits that the particular relief road er that we are currently promoting which is the outer northern , whether that is is sufficient to demonstrate that it is meeting a need . |
| 3 | Is it , is it sort of is it a certain raving dance then or what is it ? |
| 4 | The first was to see Halley 's comet , and the second the arrival of was it the " first " aeroplane arriving at Hendon ? |
| 5 | But despite the company 's own long-running antipollution programme the final lever to a clean River Tees looks like being what the company calls the ‘ very tough targets ’ set by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 6 | What I believe you should be concerned with is what the erm persons I represent , bodies I represent , now wish to see happening with regard to these two sites . |
| 7 | What is certain is that the results of the Italian war of 1859 , though wildly popular in France , were far from being what the Emperor desired . |
| 8 | Er , what we are interested in is what the estimators have thought we 're going to do for labour and what the estimators thought we were going to , it was going to cost us for plant . |
| 9 | The ‘ inside ’ seems to be everything a person knows and hence the familiar was ego-centred but it was bounded by other members of the group following certain rules . |
| 10 | Its opalescent waters seemed to be everything a Star Maiden from the Pleiades could wish to bathe in . |
| 11 | Teachers often have more problems with the concept than children : pre-school children will often play with adults , asking them to assume roles ( the shopkeeper , the bus conductor ) ; children who play in this way are used to moving in and out of role , are quite happy for an adult to be in their play one moment and to be themselves the next . |
| 12 | But that 's seems to be what a lot of the people round here do . |
| 13 | The process meant that adolescence ceased to be what an American scholar has called an ‘ idea ’ and became , in his words , a ‘ social fact ’ . |
| 14 | The Masculine Dilemma : Wanting to Be What the Other Is |
| 15 | The older man explains why : ‘ Take my word for it — homosexuality is wanting to be what the other is ’ ( p. 337 ) . |
| 16 | And when X says homosexuality is wanting to be what the other is , the other is now not the other ( opposite ) sex , but the same sex , and X , as avowed heterosexual , has described his desire to displace the male . |
| 17 | Last week 's ‘ new cruzados ’ , ravaged by inflation , are blocked and replaced by cruzeiros ( which happens to be what the currency was called up till 1986 ) . |
| 18 | And thus the practical was gradually and increasingly held to be what the ‘ no-hopers ’ engaged in . |
| 19 | That used to be what the EC was dedicated to as well . |
| 20 | For the patterns in the basic pack and the pattern libraries , the left hand light on the 580 and the EC1 ( or the right hand on earlier models ) must be on for the effect to be what the designer intended . |
| 21 | Once posited , to be what the colour-word is the name of , this ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ sensation ’ becomes an element , in our thought about these matters , of which it is almost impossible to rid ourselves . |
| 22 | And we posit an inner private object to be what the child knows and what he uses the words ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ to stand for . |
| 23 | The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be : |
| 24 | The true moral of the Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a moral of character and attitude not of precept ; and appropriately the Host responds by commenting on the Nun 's Priest as a character who has proved to be what the Monk has turned out not to be . |
| 25 | On the basis that Scottish Amicable was not prepared to take a majority stake or play a more active role in the Bank of Edinburgh 's affairs — which is thought to be what the Bank of England wanted — then this was a circle that was unlikely ever to be squared . |
| 26 | So Bernard really needs to be what the company has in mind . |
| 27 | They do n't want to be what the presenters do n't want is somebody to be pressing the button , hopping from channel to channel . |
| 28 | erm he does seem to me to be me the best — I mean all this common opinion is true — he is a writer of indefinite richness and it is amazing , but the case . |
| 29 | That seems to be something the viewers approve of . |
| 30 | But women at the Rape Crisis centre … say rape by strangers is rare … the most common attacker is likely to be someone the owmen knows and trusts . |