Example sentences of "[det] be [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what 's the difference between this been and that bean ? |
| 2 | Some are but most are n't . |
| 3 | What would this be and possible remedy . |
| 4 | From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 5 | An example of this is that each stitch pattern section ( A , B , C and so on ) , has a limit of approximately 16,000 bits . |
| 6 | One of the most encouraging aspects of all this is that each project is undertaken because of management agreements reached between SNH , landowners , crofters , farmers or voluntary organisations involved with Sites of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 7 | The reason for this is that each party can count on the votes of its committed supporters ; what each wants to do is to capture the votes of those perceived as occupying the middle ground between the parties . |
| 8 | One reason for this is that many people have a fear which they can not conceal of anything or anybody who reminds them of death ; knowing that contact with a grieving widow will exacerbate these fears they tend , after expressing their sympathy by word or letter , and sending flowers to the funeral , to withdraw to a safe distance ‘ to give her time to get over it ’ just when she needs them most . |
| 9 | One reason for this is that many grammatical elements are themselves bearers of meaning — this is true , for instance , of the past tense affix — ed , and the plural affix — s . |
| 10 | The problem with this is that many managers and other PC users have never received formal keyboard training . |
| 11 | The implication of this is that many mergers can be regarded as failures in the sense that they do not attain the gains in efficiency claimed as their justification . |
| 12 | A corollary of this is that such industries are far from simple to understand and hence they demand experts both to run them and to explain them to the general public , e.g. microelectronics , nuclear stations , oil refineries , etc . |
| 13 | A further suggestion that flows from this is that such evolutionary considerations lend support to a competing grammatical paradigm — that of Montague grammar . |
| 14 | The postscript to this is that such a conclusion would follow from the revised contractualism and , I suggest , is in the mainstream of our moral thinking . |
| 15 | One possible answer to this is that such a person is felt to be not only a representative but also representative as a person of those who chose her/him . |
| 16 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 17 | The prime reason for this is that such warehouses have become machines and will only operate correctly if the logic for their function has been meticulously thought out , checked and rechecked . |
| 18 | Genetically speaking , the reason for this is that all the cells except the sex cells in a wolf 's body have the same genes , while , as for the sex cells , all the genes have an equal chance of being in each one of them . |
| 19 | The physical effect of this is that all test particles which fall into the non-scalar curvature singularity feel infinite tidal forces , but observers can move arbitrarily close to the singularity on other curves and feel no untoward effects . |
| 20 | But the most surprising fact about this is that all these events took place during the deposition of a single graptolite zone . |
| 21 | The rationale for this is that all the equations of the model are linear and so we would expect the solution to be linear . |
| 22 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 23 | The reason I say this is that i ) , there does not appear to be financial problems with the Club and ii ) , there has been no talk of buying another class player . |
| 24 | Very simply , the theory behind this is that any product has some characteristic which can be developed so as to make it unique in its class . |
| 25 | The corollary of this is that any receipts received or payments made in the current financial year which relate to accruals made in the last financial year , will not affect the current year 's profit figures . |
| 26 | The implication of this is that any policy proposal for a particular industry can only be made after an investigation of not only the structure of the industry , but also of the objectives and conduct of the firms within it . |
| 27 | The corollary to this is that few books that are too enjoyable , too funny , or too popular could possibly be ‘ classics ’ . |
| 28 | The reason for this is that few localities contain populations which closely replicate the national profile and even fewer record rates of change similar to the nation as a whole . |
| 29 | The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered . |
| 30 | One reply to this is that most offences of bad driving have the potential to cause death or serious injury ; and that the North Committee 's proposals undervalue the element of endangerment where no harm occurs rather than over -value the resulting harm where it does occur . |