Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] be [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These assumptions are that there is majority voting , members vote sincerely , there is a single decision , individuals differ in only one characteristic at a time , and preferences are single-peaked ( see Atkinson and Stiglitz , 1980 ; Blair and Crawford , 1984 ) .
2 One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental .
3 Throughout , our view has been that it is teachers who are closest to children , and together with parents they are responsible for deciding how to use the tools at hand .
4 My claim has been that there are parallels to be observed between the theism of the Western religious traditions and that of the main Eastern religious tradition .
5 A common observation has been that there are soils in which some diseases never seem to occur and it is presumed that microorganisms that are antagonistic to pathogens naturally occur in these ‘ suppressive soils ’ .
6 They 're because it 's Sunday .
7 does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided .
8 Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry .
9 One facet of a critique would be that there are areas that do not fit the category of natural monopolies , and yet are subject to extensive regulation of the type under discussion .
10 I mean it could be that there 's air in it somewhere .
11 Woonerven had demonstrably reduced accidents , but it could be that there were elements of the design which alone and inexpensively , could achieve similar or even greater reductions .
12 So it could be that there were line from eighty one would come up to the eight five based starting point er a rather than the eighty nine based starting point on the graph .
13 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 .
14 When pecuniary losses are added the outcome of an assessment of the plaintiff 's damage may be that it is worth , say , between £8,000 and £10,500 .
15 It may be that it 's time to look again , even though this new rule has been enforced for only these elections , at this particular method of positive discrimination .
16 Among the West Saxons it may be that it was Aethelbald 's support which enabled Aethelheard to defeat the aetheling , Oswald , and that this established both Aethelheard and his brother , Cuthred , who subsequently succeeded Aethelheard in 739 , as Aethelbald 's dependants or at least obliged them to make territorial concessions .
17 Always start these off by considering what they would be if they were alkanes .
18 It should be , it should be if it 's part of the basis upon which you are making an allegation that a duty arises .
19 In principle they should be because they are part of erm your assessment .
20 Tins of paint may be more economical ; although this may be because they are student quality , and all paint is cheaper when bought in quantity .
21 Tins of paint may be more economical ; although this may be because they are student quality , and all paint is cheaper when bought in quantity .
22 If Weismann is wrong , I think it will be because there are ways of transmitting information between generations other than via DNA .
23 It may also be because there were weaknesses in the older policies , many of which became apparent once policies were implemented .
24 Yeah , and I do n't now but i I mean I 'm certainly in two I 've been since there 's people who 've referred to the fact that they do n't have those members of staff working for them at the optimum days ,
25 Of course , it was n't a matter being that they were plants only about .
26 In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading
27 Bel-Shamharoth was especially attracted to dabblers in magic who , by being as it were beachcombers on the shores of the unnatural , were already half-enmeshed in his nets .
28 Urban II himself paid homage to this point of view when he introduced Anselm to the Curia as ‘ one who is almost our equal , being as it were Pope and Patriarch of the alter orbis ' .
29 Being as it was David 's mother , an older person , it never occurred to me to get mad or upset .
30 Sometimes people think they and I think all actors are whether they 're Robert De Niro or somebody else ! ’
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