Example sentences of "be [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm but er certainly the record to date has been that these power stations are erm extremely erm well run and that they ha they 've had no major incidents at all . |
| 32 | Our view has always been that any taxation system must be based on the ability to pay . |
| 33 | MAFF 's view has been that any support for conservation measures must be purely as an adjunct to agricultural works , a view supported by DoE . |
| 34 | For 40 years the policy has been that some contribution should be made towards the cost of sight and dental charges — that was agreed by both parties . |
| 35 | Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable . |
| 36 | ( 2 ) The court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if that individual had not entered into that transaction . ’ |
| 37 | In Fig. 10–3 the increase in output is not as great as it would have been if this interest rate effect had not occurred ( in which case the rise in output would be , to , rather than , to ) . |
| 38 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |
| 39 | And what 's the difference between this been and that bean ? |
| 40 | At that time it was a kind of derelict brick structure , part of which er over there , the bit that 's at right angles to where we are now , was in a was a plumber 's showroom or had been and this part was actually derelict and had a demolition order on it . |
| 41 | If they are and this kind of tragedy occurs then they must be punished for such behaviour . ’ |
| 42 | And that 's where we are and this morning . |
| 43 | They are and any theory of species origins must explain why . |
| 44 | ‘ As there are but few persons who love to meditate upon scenes of death , and too many are only able to view the gloomy side of them , instead of following by the eye of faith the glorious progress of the departing saint , I will hasten to end of my story . ’ |
| 45 | Another daft view is that all the woes which have beset the Soviet Union and its satellites are because these countries did n't know how to run their economies . |
| 46 | It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation . |
| 47 | Because it may well be that that land would n't be considered being part of the conservation area . |
| 48 | Er and that was the system and of course the thing was that with the riveters being on piece work , apart from negotiating a wage , you were negotiating what was known as a price list , and er whereas you would get X amounts of shillings or pounds for so many hundred rivets , or whatever it was , then the argument would be that that price should be upped because of the the cost of living going up , or whatever you know . |
| 49 | Although Conservative Members have had a lot to say on the subject , in Standing Committee E the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) said : ’ The effect of the amendments ’ — in other words , an amendment to the Bill in order to make these affirmative orders — ’ would be that all regulations under the Bill would be subject to the affirmative procedure . ’ |
| 50 | Alternatively it could be that all subjects perform differently on junctions they previously knew well compared to those they did not know well . |
| 51 | Not all summons forms can be used as addresses ( e.g. hey you in ( 47 ) can not occur in the slot occupied by Madam in ( 48 ) ) , although it may be that all addresses can be used as summonses ( Zwicky , 1974 : 791 ) . |
| 52 | We may like to think that such changes enable the organisation to be more efficient and effective in achieving its goals and yet it may well be that such changes arise as a result of trying to satisfy an individual 's political ambitions or to undercut the ambitions of a rival . |
| 53 | It may also be that such service would be regarded as valid on the ground that it amounted to service on the defendant in accordance with the law of the country in which service is effected . |
| 54 | Nevertheless , it may well be that such birds are conditioned to this colour and it has been shown that nectar quality can overcome colour prejudice . |
| 55 | It may be that such moves towards a willingness to detach comment from political allegiance and dogma is a passing fad but it does also suggest that many journalists are uneasy about blind , albeit volunteered , political commitment . |
| 56 | It may also be that such employers were , at least in the early 1970s , less prepared to make the organizational adjustments which make it feasible for mothers to combine paid work with responsibility for young children . |
| 57 | The question in the DBQ refers specifically to multi-level car parks , the assumption here seems to be that such memory failures are particularly likely in this context because of the similarity in appearance of different floors in such a car park , however , there has been some work looking at memory for car parking in situations where more information is available . |
| 58 | The universal feeling used to be that such books belonged in the libraries they came from . |
| 59 | If there is any iron law of bureaucracy it must be that such organizations will not willingly do anything that may be against the organization 's perceived long-term interests and that , on occasions , this will lead the organization to ignore its nominal masters . |
| 60 | A third view could be that such investment is not an element in a zero-sum game : investment abroad is not a simple net loss to UK plants but , instead , creates productive facilities which complement and are integrated with UK production . |