Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only physical change should be that she is no longer able to have children . |
| 2 | Provided that the doctor is satisfied that the patient , when forbidding further treatment , was aware of what he was saying , the short answer must be that he is not in breach of his duty . |
| 3 | If that is so , then the reason Papinian admits the daughter may be that he is inclined to favour the immediate family . |
| 4 | Kinnock 's weakness , he riposted thoughtfully , may be that he is becoming too autocratic . |
| 5 | Could it be that 't is not the younger prince who has stolen her heart ? |
| 6 | It may well be that it is the first of these , his work in children 's theatre , for which he will be most remembered , for he revolutionised the whole conception of what forms theatre for children might take . |
| 7 | However , it has also been suggested that since there is a dominance hierarchy among the females and only the subordinates do badly , it may be that it is only younger females that fare worse in big harems than they would if they were monogamous . |
| 8 | That could have been done anyway if the disposition were in a will , but it may well be that it is in a codicil or other document to which the nuncupatio did not apply . |
| 9 | Although nature is infinitely diverse and the techniques and approaches used for its study are widely varied , a most obvious feature of science seems to be that it is concerned with the dismantling of superfluous structure , and the description of nature 's many facets in the simplest possible terms . |
| 10 | The moral to this little story must therefore be that it is always worth checking that the components you receive from a supplier are the ones that you actually ordered ! |
| 11 | One reason might be that it is a case of ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ , because despite the fact that the chestnut-shaped prostate gland plays a vital secretory role in ejaculation , it is a very hidden organ , surrounding the upper part of the urethra and tucked away under the bladder and behind the rectum . |
| 12 | One conclusion might be that it is possible to define different grades of appropriateness , in which case it could be argued that the word-of-mouth teaching of the lobon-gur solution was a more appropriate form of oral therapy technology than the distribution of an insufficient number of Oral Rehydration Salt packets via restricted outlets . |
| 13 | The main criterion for an effective service must be that it is staffed by experienced professionals who are appropriately qualified . |
| 14 | One reason must be that it is the only staging halt within thirty miles ; another , more certainly , is the excellence of the seaward views and , in particular , the glorious sweep of the silver sands of Sango Bay and Balnakeil Bay , both exquisitely charming in kind weather . |
| 15 | The problem seems to be that it is fundamentally about attitudes to work and such attitudes are subject to an inextricable and non-monotonic range of influences not only from work itself , with all the pressures of technological change , but also from prevailing economic , social and cultural changes in the community generally . |
| 16 | It may be that it is those least disposed to commit suicide who join the cult in the first place , but at least the systematic comparison of variables has led to the question being raised . |
| 17 | It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ . |
| 18 | It could be that it is reducible to the other needs ; that our belief in convention is purely a function of the degree to which it satisfies our needs for affection , status , and so on . |
| 19 | In that case the reason the whole has a value other than the sum of the values of its parts , considered as capable of existing unaltered in other wholes , may be that it is a radical mistake to think of them as capable of so doing . |
| 20 | It may be that the state of affairs in which everyone ( as opposed to just some people ) is guided by such a maxim is an impossibility , or it may be that it is in some way a thing that no individual can wish for . |
| 21 | A more likely suggestion would be that it is evidence of the estate workers continuing to live on the site and work the land long after the owners , managers or bailiffs had departed . |
| 22 | The answer must be that it is much less important by what mechanisms people come across art than what they themselves bring to the encounter . |
| 23 | However , the prevailing view seems to be that it is preferable for women to withdraw from the labour market rather than for men to have to retire five years earlier . |
| 24 | For an alternative formulation might be that it is the hallmark of democratic government ( which is not the whole of democracy ) that it is government by consent , by contrast with other forms of arbitrary or tyrannical rule where the wishes of the people are ignored and their assent or support is not sought , or considered necessary . |
| 25 | It may be that it is a price which none of us will pay . |
| 26 | An initial diagnosis of the Gettier counter-examples may be that it is just luck that Henry 's justified belief is true . |
| 27 | One reason for this lack of success may be that it is unlikely that individuals will make public , in a regular meeting , what is on their left-hand columns . |
| 28 | Consequently , the reply to the national court must be that it is not contrary to Community law for a member state to stipulate as a condition for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the vessel in question must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within that member state . |
| 29 | There can , after all , be more than one possible explanation why a witness may retract evidence given by him on a previous occasion ; and , as must have been contemplated in Reg. v. Donat , 82 Cr.App.R. 173 , one possibility may be that it is the later retraction , rather than the earlier evidence , which is not worthy of belief . |
| 30 | Another related reason may be that it is not at all clear what it is that is transmitted during inter-hemispheric transfer . |