Example sentences of "[be] [adv] is [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they are basically is a form of pattern shorthand . |
| 2 | Who we are now is a mixture of what we let others see of ourselves and what we hide away . |
| 3 | Byron , who had no good word to say of the town itself , spoke highly of its inhabitants : ‘ … both female and male , at least the young ones , are remarkably handsome , and how the devil they came to be so is a wonder . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The message , ’ says Robin Richardson of the race relations charity Runnymede Trust , ‘ seems to be there is no place for black ethnic minority people in the centuries-old history evoked by this picture — and , by implication , in the historic work ahead of us ’ . |
| 5 | What I am today is the result of a long process . |
| 6 | The result of his labours during the five months he had been there is a collection consisting of 500 Birds ; 100 Skeletons , 60 nests , the eggs of alike [ sic ] No. of species , and 3 nine gallon Kegs of specimens in spirits … |
| 7 | To be strong and to have a reputation for being so is a source of self-esteem . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ Being there is a rugby education in itself . |
| 9 | Whether that is so is a matter for judgement . |
| 10 | Our main concern is here is a method that might be a problem it 's theoretically and physiologically could be a problem , about which we do not know the extent . |
| 11 | I think from the County Council 's point of view , the safeguard is there is no proposal to make those available for other spending within the committee and therefore , if hopefully we do not need to access them during the year , they are still available for Council in future years to , to meet other spending requirements . |
| 12 | And I keep thinking to myself well something will come along , something 'll happen , but I I think what it is there is no jobs round here at the moment . |
| 13 | At the moment the police have no conclusive evidence that Mr Riddle is dead , but if he is there is no reason to connect his death with the Wheel . ’ |
| 14 | Not worthy of a photograph I should n't think There 's the Queen Mother again , does n't say how old she is There is the picture of the doctor , mind you he does n't look like a junior doctor , he 's Pakistani and he looks about fifty ! |
| 15 | Now what it is actually is a idea that part of our research and development actually engages the customer so that in the stores it 's very difficult to experiment in say half a dozen when the national press is out there every week making an offer that you do n't carry by definition like that |