Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [be] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the range of benefits to which the elderly and those caring for them are entitled is still inadequate to meet every need , it is wider than some realise . |
| 2 | But it was a good place to unwind ; the chance of either of them being recognized was remote . |
| 3 | The lorries drive off across Europe and with the amount of traffic there is the chances of them being caught are pretty minimal . |
| 4 | If the law is to be effective , the criminals must know that the chance of their being caught is high , as is the chance of their being convicted ; and that they are certain to receive a sentence that matches the severity of their crime . |
| 5 | For socialists to champion the aspiration when there was no objective possibility of its being realized was to be both reactionary and utopian . |
| 6 | The pardon had been a central demand of previous Army mutinies , and the prospect of its being announced was thought to have encouraged the loyalty of the Army in putting down the Dec. 3 carapintadas rebellion . |
| 7 | Its expenses of production when any given amount of it is produced are thus the supply prices of the corresponding quantities of its factors of production . |
| 8 | More documentation is generated by the modern world than by its predecessors , and more of what is generated is preserved . |
| 9 | When a famous campaign is changed , it is still possible to carry out research on advertising recall for several years afterwards and find a substantial , sometimes even dominant , proportion of what is recalled being the old campaign . |
| 10 | When giving orders , much of the impact of What is said is derived from the stage management of the Whole procedure . |
| 11 | But , on the other hand , the informant who sees the interviewer making no record of what is said is just as likely to wonder why notes are not being taken . |
| 12 | The validity of what is said is often judged by the expression of the eyes . |
| 13 | What the experienced communicator recognises is that the effectiveness of what is said is as dependent upon how it is said and perceptions and impressions others have of the person presenting the argument as it is upon the quality of argument itself . |
| 14 | I think ( actor 's voice ) people who are not in this great business of ours think the idea of electronic messages flying around is really odd and they may get freaked if some of what is said is a bit inflammatory- maybe more so than if they saw it printed . |
| 15 | This reasoning seems slightly artificial where the essence of what is alleged is fighting , and the better course may be to charge the person fighting with assault , or affray , or both . |
| 16 | What is left of what is shown is just before , |
| 17 | National income will then fall until the value of what is produced is equal to the value of aggregate demand . |
| 18 | The traffic implications of what is proposed are enormous , and I hope that British Rail and the Government will take cognisance of the fact that we do not want to create around King 's Cross a traffic jam far worse than anything that we have to put up with at present . |
| 19 | ‘ We believe much of what is proposed is uninsurable and the rest will be very expensive . ’ |
| 20 | N.B. A higher classification does not necessarily mean that the quality of what is provided is higher than that available in an establishment with a lower classification . |
| 21 | Some powerful hints of what was to come were there to be seen in December 1980 . |
| 22 | No hint of what was to come was given at that meeting on 20 February . |
| 23 | An indication of what was to follow was given on 12 June when Roberto Agramonte , a moderate who was in favour of conciliation with the United States , was replaced as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by radical nationalist Raúl Roa . |
| 24 | Much of what was started was implemented not by suburban , predominantly Conservative councils , but by urban Labour ones . |
| 25 | The initial elation the rest of us were experiencing was as far away as her childhood . |
| 26 | Whether the original charge against him was justified is unknown , but the incident cost the English 100 ships , and the remainder returned to London shortly before the arrival of a fresh force of raiders ; in the chronicler 's words , the effort of the whole nation came to nothing . |
| 27 | The most simple reason for something being buried is that people have buried it , and domestic waste is probably the most common example of deliberate burial . |
| 28 | The reduction process consists of gradually filtering out the dependent constituents at successive levels until what is left is the most important grouping peak or the prolongational arrival which completes the argument of the entire text . |
| 29 | The reasons why JPAC 's quotas differ so greatly from what was intended are twofold . |
| 30 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |