Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 7 ) Once a bona fide offer has been made or is believed to be imminent , the board of the target company must not take any action which would frustrate that offer or deny shareholders an opportunity to decide on its merits , unless the action is approved by the shareholders in general meeting . |
| 2 | I have outlined a handful of sexual difference theories wherein homosexuality is associated with , or is seen to be expressive of : ( 1 ) the true , negative , nature of patriarchy , ( 2 ) a negation of what is truly vital and creative in ( heterosexual ) desire , ( 3 ) anti-Semitism , totalitarianism , and fascism , ( 4 ) an obliteration of the autonomy of the other , ( 5 ) anal negativity , solipsism , and sterility and de-creation , ( 6 ) the undifferentiation of a dying culture , ( 7 ) a cowardly refusal of homosocial rivalry , ( 8 ) the definitive expression of homosocial rivalry . |
| 3 | How does one go about luring people away from a profession that is said to be non-existent ? |
| 4 | At no point on its way to Woodstock is it followed by a boundary that is known to be ancient . |
| 5 | But they tend to diverge into two types with respect to the information about features that is thought to be important . |
| 6 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
| 7 | They want something that is going to be reliable . |
| 8 | Typically a multi-speaker recognition system , the only sort that is going to be acceptable to users , will allow between 20 and 30 words to be recognised at a time with a success rate of around 85 to 90% . |
| 9 | Ecotopia turns its back on the capitalist treadmill of material progress-not by a return to pre-industrial forms and back to nature " but by developing a " high-tech " society that is designed to be compatible with the biosphere . |
| 10 | If I may make one suggestion to the South Africans that is meant to be helpful , it is this : call on Bob Burrows , the ITV producer who was in charge of the Rugby World Cup in this country , and invite him to be your consultant . |
| 11 | erm Nonetheless , while we want to carry on supporting that , we 've also got to think , as Jack said , erm of as we enter the next century what is going to be right for our children , and we know that in many ways we have failed them and we know that we are producing many children who have n't had the training and the education that 's going to be necessary for us to be erm economically competent in the future , so we 've got to look at the whole of our educational provision , and frankly I think opting out was erm a sort of unnecessary blip on all of this that is n't really terribly important in the whole issue of how the children in this country should be educated . |
| 12 | A wrist that 's going to be painful for a while , but it will heal . |
| 13 | The business cards have been left in custody suites and so on for people to pick up but the problem is I think are the drug squad going to service it properly they are so busy er that 's going to be difficult . |
| 14 | With so many visiting stewards all the time we have n't got a regular pattern of of any stewards that 's going to be responsible . |
| 15 | By the time everything is packed into that bag that 's going to be heavy but on the other hand I 'm going to have taxis . |
| 16 | Currently , the Navy runs half its school at Aldershot and the other half at Devonport and is believed to be keen , for financial reasons if nothing else , to re-locate on to one site . |
| 17 | As a general rule a restrictive covenant restricts competition and is presumed to be void and unenforceable because such restrictions are contrary to public policy . |
| 18 | She works hard to understand issues which confuse her and is learning to be patient with herself when , as she puts it , her brain ‘ gets stuck ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Chronicle is an up-and-coming house , and is seen to be different , which is good for us , ’ he said . |
| 20 | She 's attractive , successful and is engaged to be married . |
| 21 | He lives in Kilmarnock and is engaged to be married next year . |
| 22 | She moved to Scotland in May and is engaged to be married . |
| 23 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 24 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 25 | We have , then , two different kinds of language as potential objects for study : one abstracted in order to teach a language or literacy , or to study how the rules of language work , and another which has been used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent ( and may , or may not , happen to correspond to a correct sentence or a series of correct sentences ) . |
| 26 | Hence , if the working fluid contains an indicator and is titrated to be close to the end-point of that indicator , the application of a voltage between a fine wire and some other point in the flow can produce a local colour change at the wire . |
| 27 | The Intel version shares the capabilities of the portable source Unix version and is said to be easy to install . |
| 28 | The Intel version shares the capabilities of the portable source Unix version and is said to be easy to install . |
| 29 | ‘ Playground ’ was written specifically for the movie In A League Of Their Own starring Geena Davis , Tom Hanks and Madonna which premieres in the UK in September , and is said to be unrepresentative of the material featured on the ‘ Erotica ’ LP . |
| 30 | Little Penny is now safe in the care of her grandparents , who live in Wilton , near Redcar , and is said to be fine . |