Example sentences of "be is the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One of the most confusing places to be is the lift at the BBC Television Centre . |
| 2 | An indication of the powerhouse force she plans to be is the existence of a shortlist of top business women , earmarked for her ‘ Chief of Staff ’ . |
| 3 | Although such inferences are not always logically entirely unimpeachable , given the above premisses , the pluralist case becomes difficult to defend and on balance the only reasonable option seems to be Spinoza 's own unitarist alternative , viz. that there is only one substance which is in fact identical with the whole of reality , and that the only plurality there is or can be is the plurality of " attributes and modifications " . |
| 4 | In the simplest possible photoionization event the whole of the photon energy is transferred to the electron , so we may write where hν is the energy of the incident photon , BE is the binding energy of the ejected electron and KE is its kinetic energy . |
| 5 | We shall adopt a small arrow as our notation for assignment in this sense , so that ( 31 ) ( excluding irrelevant details like number , and the particular tense employed ) may be represented as ( 35 ) , where we again abbreviate by passing directly from the word forms to the intensional pattern : We may note , by the way , that the copular verb to be is the direct formal representation of the relation of assignment ; this has to be expressed overtly in English ( as well as being indicated by the order of noun and adjective ) , although in many other languages , e.g. Russian and Arabic , no overt exponent is required . |