Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Doughty eleven to two , Bradbury Star that has to be the favourite easing slightly this seven to one with General Idea . |
| 2 | No , it 's purely advisory , it , it depends , depending on which piece of legislation , it depends upon the regulatory bodies , and in most cases that tends to be the District Councils , but it 's |
| 3 | It has an unmatchable symphony orchestra that seems to be the envy of the entire Japanese nation . |
| 4 | ‘ Though for some totally inexplicable reason that seems to be the truth . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , perhaps , it is technology innovation that seems to be the burr under McNealy 's saddle . |
| 6 | Of the suggestions that we have canvassed the one that seems to be the most promising is that which points to the emergence of classical measuring instruments from a quantum mechanical substrate , even if the mode and consistency of this happening is harder to comprehend than Copenhagen orthodoxy is willing to recognise . |
| 7 | Erm that seems to be the main motivation but I do n't think it is , personally , er it might be what is suggested to them because if they look like going socialist again , then it is not what the majority of the capitalist wants , or the major powers want . |
| 8 | Well that seems to be the mood . |
| 9 | Now the thing that seems to be the most interesting on the er face value of it , is er how it 's going to affect fuel consumption and transport , and he is saying that they 're considering whether further changes should be made in the taxation of er fuel and vehicles . |
| 10 | yes , those are the ones that seems to be the |
| 11 | It is in the interests of this country , therefore , to stand firmer now on foreign policy than appears to be the Government 's position . |
| 12 | A LEADING Belfast paediatrician is recommending a new baby-feed that claims to be the next-best thing to mothers ' milk . |
| 13 | Excel 4.0 makes both tasks quick and less prone to embarrassing errors , and has to be the best on the market today . |
| 14 | The bassist is the perfect and usual foil to the ebullient ‘ opinion on everything , me ’ vocalist , and seems to be the cornerstone of the five-piece . |
| 15 | The bassist is the perfect and usual foil to the ebullient ‘ opinion on everything , me ’ vocalist , and seems to be the cornerstone of the five-piece . |
| 16 | The pattern repeats itself throughout the Welsh uplands and appears to be the norm in the UK uplands generally . |
| 17 | She 's a ‘ free spirit ’ and appears to be the second most dominant female in the group . |
| 18 | Mansfield reader FRED GREEN has checked with the British Cichlid Association and appears to be the first person to have spawned Green Chromides in the UK . |
| 19 | The fullest version of Gloucester 's arguments is to be found on the parliament roll of January 1484 and purports to be the petition presented to Gloucester when he was asked to take the throne in June . |
| 20 | The fullest version of Gloucester 's arguments is to be found on the parliament roll of January 1484 and purports to be the petition presented to Gloucester when he was asked to take the throne in June . |
| 21 | He 's crazy about football and hopes to be the captain this year . |
| 22 | The fact is , I fear , that the " itching ear " which popular election has created in most people for hearing candidates has been the ruin of many a parish , and threatens to be the curse of many more . |
| 23 | The nightclub , called ‘ Lipps ’ , sells the beer at $20 a can , and claims to be the cheapest place in town . |
| 24 | It is said to have the largest on-chip cache in the industry — two thirds of its 3.1m transistors are dedicated to the cache — and claims to be the first with complete on-chip multi-processing . |
| 25 | Bull reckons its systems integration business is growing at three times the market rate and claims to be the fourth largest systems integration business in Europe . |
| 26 | Overall , the process of becoming a budget-minded organisation has been a learning curve for some of us but has to be the right way to go . ’ |
| 27 | That aside , English follows its normal mode of realization — marking qualification by word order — and , as tends to be the case except in entity-identifiers , having the subordinate item follow the item qualified ; the only overt marking is the choice of an adjectival rather than adverbial form for the second property , to show that this is to apply to the entity of the noun phrase and not to the property of the verb . |
| 28 | Where , as appears to be the case at Uppark , it is physically possible to make an accurate restoration of a great building , it should be made — and not jeered at as the creation of a theme park of misnamed pastiche . |
| 29 | If — as appears to be the case — detected offenders typically start from a position of social disadvantage ( which means that the obligation to obey the law weighs more heavily upon them than on others ) then punishment will tend to increase inequality rather than do the opposite . |
| 30 | Does he agree that it is good that the British farming community is not as violent as appears to be the case on the continent ? |