Example sentences of "be the [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The care of elderly people will not inevitably deteriorate in the future , but the potential for this to be the case underlines the importance of close monitoring of the impact of Working for Patients on the future quality of the National Health Service . |
| 2 | The school librarian may be the person controls the acquisition and borrowing of software and therefore a responsibility to ensure that software which is borrowed is not copied in school , as this could lead to prosecution . |
| 3 | This will continue to be the primary means by which people are enabled to live normal lives in community settings … the first task of publicly provided services is to support and where possible strengthen these networks of carers ( Griffiths , 1988 , p. 5 ) . |
| 4 | May be the lot does . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd not wish to argue , Elizabeth Roisin , and we ourselves know that the Macleans sit on the left hand of God Himself , but Abbot Kenneth could be objecting that a claim to actually be the Lord sounds a touch excessive . ’ |
| 6 | Will you tell him that , it might be the thermostat 's gone . |
| 7 | Thus a settlement of two or three farmsteads , or even an isolated one , could be the shrunken remains of a village or hamlet . |