Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [be] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goran now plays his futba in Turkey ( where money is rumoured to be good ) |
| 2 | Of the four factors , a confiding tie with a husband or lover was seen to be the most important , in that this could protect against depression whether or not any one of the other three vulnerability factors was present . |
| 3 | Even in such classic areas as the Mississippi delta , where sediment is thought to be accumulating rapidly , there is plenty of evidence to suggest that , after building up for a while , much of it is carried away again . |
| 4 | Why should the primary sufferer want to seek recovery if the quality of life without alcohol or drugs or other addictive substance or process is going to be no better than that of the family member ? |
| 5 | Given that membership of the school was universally perceived as a privilege , social and disciplinary problems were minimal and few special arrangements for pastoral care or counselling were thought to be necessary . |
| 6 | It is not a geographical accident of birth that determines whether an individual or group is going to be rich or poor , but a question of class location . |
| 7 | In Malaysia , a single tiger whisker ground up in the animal 's flesh or bone is thought to be powerful enough to kill an enemy . |
| 8 | I am aware — and so are local social workers — of at least one large housing estate in a provincial town where incest is thought to be the norm rather than the exception even today ; and such is the difficulty of its location and proof that cases coming to light are probably only the tip of an iceberg . |
| 9 | It is clear that where service is required to be effected in a Contracting State , the provisions of the convention , as given effect in national law or as a self-executing Treaty , will prevail over the general law as to service of process . |
| 10 | However where demand is known to be variable , for example if a large share of output is exported , any major internal expansion carries the danger of periodic over-capacity with consequent higher average costs just as the market is weakest . |
| 11 | Any symptom or illness is intended to be a source of growth . |
| 12 | The Gooding-Sanken company will be located at Aberaman in the Cynon Valley where unemployment is estimated to be 21 per cent — the highest in south Wales . |
| 13 | ( In the year 2000 the number of homes with either cable or satellite is expected to be just over 10 million . ) |
| 14 | The benefits of synergy or cross-fertilisation were claimed to be one of the main reasons for the link-up . |
| 15 | A renewal card or invoice was suggested to be sent each September to cover PAF , Insurance ( if required ) , QT fees and Membership . |
| 16 | We must also ensure that teaching is seen to be important , and a simple way to start is to insist that all doctors must document their experience when applying for jobs and that all appointments committees should ask about it . |
| 17 | Under the previous law , the offence was committed where the onlooker believed that violence was intended to be provoked or ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . ’ |
| 18 | Both Jesus and Paul will say that marriage is designed to be a one-flesh lifelong relationship , but they both recognise the human realities . |
| 19 | A physics of the infinite was the correlate of a theology of the infinite , however heterodox that theology was perceived to be . |
| 20 | They are everything and nothing that rock'n'roll is meant to be . |
| 21 | Commenting on the findings of the report , Ian Hunter , tax partner at Ernst & Young 's Edinburgh office , said : ‘ Although this survey indicates business confidence is high it also demonstrates that recovery is going to be slow . ’ |
| 22 | As a result of this , their professional commitment to arms grew : in France , in the second half of the fourteenth century , some esquires ( men on the very fringe of noblesse ) were promoted over the heads of knights , whose numbers in the French army declined anyhow after about 1380 , a suggestion that professionalism was coming to be well regarded . |
| 23 | ‘ The deal has been very good for football , ’ he says , ‘ and I believe that television is going to be accepted as a very important tool in the game 's administration . |
| 24 | Police reported no new congestion on roads , although traffic was expected to be heavier because of the rain . |
| 25 | This idiom encourages the very bad habit of believing that life is going to be as neatly packaged as a school textbook . |
| 26 | Jesus taught his followers that life was meant to be lived a day at a time . |
| 27 | A spokesman at Monkton-hall said that coal was continuing to be produced in spite of current financial problems , which followed a delay in starting production at the main coal face . |
| 28 | ‘ How did you know that letter was going to be sent to me ? ’ |
| 29 | It is in this sense that monopoly is said to be economically inefficient , and to misallocate resources through the restriction of output . |
| 30 | We knew that VAT was going to be an issue , but because everything was so vague we found it impossible to draw up detailed plans in advance , which meant that at the last minute we had to commit unbudgeted and unplanned resources to enable us to be ready for January . ’ |