Example sentences of "[det] be a " in BNC.

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1 Telephone savings stamps at £1 each , TV licence stamps in 50p denominations , or water bill savings stamps , at £1 and £2 each are a good idea for elderly hard-pressed relatives .
2 Telephone savings stamps at £1 each , TV licence stamps in 50p denominations , or water bill savings stamps , at £1 and £2 each are a good idea for elderly hard-pressed relatives .
3 Telephone savings stamps at £1 each , TV licence stamps in 50p denominations , or water bill savings stamps , at £1 and £2 each are a good idea for elderly hard-pressed relatives .
4 blues parties was that Has that been a major problem in the flats ?
5 Has that been a problem that you 've had often or .
6 Had that been a silent watching figure just over there ?
7 Or had that been a mistake ?
8 Had that been a spider 's web that touched her cheek just now ?
9 However , had that been a reason , I could have accepted it .
10 Has that been a recurring thing or was it er was it just a one off situation ?
11 Had that been a steady red light it would n't have been anywhere near as noticeable
12 erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ?
13 Behind this are a separate small locker , and the battery tray which slides out of the fuselage side .
14 The obvious checks to this are a sense of individual identity , a willingness to assume responsibility , a mature morality and a developed sense of integrity .
15 Following this are a retrospective of Eva Hesse and a view of Carol Seborovski 's work .
16 Added to this are a couple of million pre-cataloguing or inventorial forms .
17 The organisms that did this are a little more complex in structure than bacteria .
18 The reasons for this are a political philosophy of increasing private provision coupled with changes in the funding arrangements for those entering residential care , specifically the introduction of supplementary benefit payments to those unable to afford the fees at private homes .
19 Programs such as this are an invaluable source of information and can be used time and time again .
20 Had this been a studio ‘ take ’ it would have been phenomenal , but the fact that it is ‘ live ’ has one bordering on disbelief .
21 Had this been a function for Chedworth , one might at least have expected to find suitable tools .
22 Have there been many cases on the flats or has this been a
23 Had this been a scene in a movie , it would have been followed by pistol shots and , no doubt , the entry of a deadly snake into the Sigmoid tent .
24 Some clients are wonderful and some are a pain in the neck indecisive , argumentative , and generally difficult .
25 But if , if our fee bids , that have been going in so far , are there or thereabouts and having monitored reports for quite a while , tendencies and yes some are under and some are a bit over but in general they 're not th they 're not that far out .
26 Some are a competition , a snoring competition .
27 Some focus on a particular joint-venture subsidiary company ; some involve the sharing of research and development ; some are an alliance of production capacity with marketing strength ; some involve putting a foreign product under a domestic label ; some alliances are intended to promote a new standard or form of compatibility ( and to defeat a rival standard ) .
28 Each of these is sufficiently significant to repay study in its own right , and some are an essential preliminary to understanding catalogues , indexes and shelf arrangement of stock in libraries .
29 Some success , some are an absolute waste of .
30 Sister Margaret Traxler , of the National Coalition of American Nuns , said that she had told Dr Runcie : ‘ The Roman Catholic Church says this is a deterrent to unity ; but we say , how can this be a deterrent to unity when discrimination against women is evil ? ’
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