Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [adj] [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 As the foregoing brief chronology has demonstrated , which Councils have been recognized as ecumenical is far more arbitrary than is acknowledged by the bland words of the current Code .
2 Positive tests can be attributed to feedstuffs or medication , but Martin Pipe emphasised : ‘ I am implying that that is not the case .
3 But you see I find this discussion slightly difficult to deal with because on the one hand you 're saying yes , the exclusion clauses in the policy reduce the scope of your liability quite dramatically , and on the other hand you 're saying but that 's just the words in practice we behave quite differently .
4 Only it may feel like such a disaster that , that they feel they ca n't do anything about it , er but you 're saying that that is n't , is n't necessarily the case ?
5 You 're saying that this is not necessarily the case .
6 Mrs Balcombe said : ‘ We have been told that this is not nearly enough but it is all we have got and I think we are lucky to have it . ’
7 However , it has been shown that this is not the case .
8 Up to 100 eggs per spawning act are produced and 500–600 is not unusual for a complete spawning phase .
9 ‘ We and the banks are agreed that this is not an appropriate basis for further finance ’ , Eurotunnel 's press release warns .
10 We and the banks are agreed that this is not an appropriate basis for further finance . ’
11 And some are saying that that 's already happening .
12 Provided , therefore , that the basis of the distinction between and was originally geographical-and it must be emphasized that this is only one possible explanation , albeit perhaps the most tenable on-it seems likely that they had come into currency before the middle of the sixteenth century , before the distinction between the geographical locations of the medreses had begun to become blurred .
13 For a moment , crossing the Melling Road , I thought we might nearly be placed but that 's when he started to tie up .
14 YOUR ENTRY MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED IF THIS IS NOT DONE .
15 At present , the Commission 's thinking is that express services should be liberalised where this is not yet the case .
16 If it were more forcefully to challenge the ageism that underlies the social structure , would it be in danger of provoking a backlash from those of its supporters who do not wish to be reminded that all is not well , despite their charity ?
17 It should be stressed that this is not the only possible intervention .
18 The product allows the artist , and it needs to be stressed that this is not a product for the amateur doodler , to create mathematically correct lines and curves by placing anchor points and stretching lines between them .
19 It should be stressed that this is not a qualification in interpreting or community work .
20 It should be stressed that this is also true of other so-called developmental theories .
21 It must be stressed that this is only a possibility ( and that the explanation has been very much simplified ) , but more and more researches are showing that it probably approximates to the truth .
22 Now it can still be objected that this is also true of adults and that I have still , therefore , failed to distinguish them from children .
23 As such it can be seen that this is not a zero-based allocation system or a total formula-based system .
24 It may be said that this is not imagining the activity of a postman at all .
25 It may be said that this is just one of the cases where it is impossible to be neutral .
26 Similarly , women are not beyond attraction to a young boy , although it may probably be said that this is less often the case .
27 As for the playing , it has to be said that this is never of the very highest order , but considering the seemingly insurmountable difficulties of the music , much of the artistry continues to amaze .
28 I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true .
29 Whilst it may be argued that this is merely an illustration of the duty owed under the OLA 1957 , it may also be said that this exists as a form of liability under the tort of negligence but outside the scope of the 1957 Act .
30 Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) .
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