Example sentences of "is [verb] [vb mod] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 200 per cent increase looks huge but the base on which it is calculated may be small . |
| 2 | Thirdly , the base figure upon which the index is calculated may be updated . |
| 3 | Assignment , on the other hand , requires a more explicit focus on the particular property assigned ; what is assigned may be a complex property ( like fairly acceptable ) , or even a co-ordination ; but to expect a single linguistic faculty to make two separate assignments of properties to the same entity in the same phrase would be unreasonable ; it would be analogous to expecting a physical eye to focus on two different objects at the same time . |
| 4 | Whereas to invade a pitch when a goal is disallowed may be felt magically as a way of reversing the referee 's decision . |
| 5 | So I think it is a matter of erm importance for the structure plan its inclusion er and I think to put the an answer to one of the questions that was put earlier , if it is not to be left to the district to decide on where development is or is not appropriate in open countryside as defined in the structure plan policy , who it is intended could be making the decision on where development would be appropriate . |
| 6 | This is regarded by the present government , along with its proposals for a national curriculum , as a means of enhancing the quality of education , and making schools more accountable to parents in a system of schooling that it is intended will be more consumer oriented . |
| 7 | The NeXT Computer Inc workstations it is reselling can be supported by CLARiiON over the network but not directly . |
| 8 | The lack of response to iron treatment or the recurrence of anaemia when iron treatment is stopped may be an indicator of the need for further colonic assessment and requires formal evaluation . |
| 9 | Any that is exposed can be taken out and sold for scrap . |
| 10 | The trainee will carry out his or her normal job and the manner and competence with which the work is undertaken will be assessed by a departmental head or supervisor [ in a bigger company ] or , in a smaller establishment , perhaps by a visiting college lecturer acting as an assessor . |
| 11 | Whatever words she is singing must be important . |
| 12 | Stock which is withdrawn should be offered to other libraries participating in the interlending network . |
| 13 | The first is : every command that is given must be obeyed . |
| 14 | THE end of mortgage interest tax relief came a step closer this week when the Chancellor of the Exchequer — while retaining the existing interest relief ceiling of £30,000 — announced that from next year , the rate at which relief is given will be cut from 25 to 20 per cent . |
| 15 | If you mention the possibility of a conspiracy charge , it would be wise to add that the addition of conspiracy counts when the crime is consummated must be specially justified . |
| 16 | Both Gerry Steinberg and Nigel Martin , asked about the £13m scheme by the Western Bypass Action Group , said they backed the group 's alternative more westerly route which it is claimed would be environmentally less damaging . |
| 17 | The free market philosophy set in train by Mrs Thatcher when she became Prime Minister in 1979 has resulted in the Government deciding to end the life of the venerable Milk Marketing Board , set up in 1933 to buy all the milk produced in England and Wales , paving the way for what it is claimed will be a totally free market in milk . |
| 18 | If the demand includes interest or any other charge accruing from time to time , the amount or rate of charge must be separately identified and the grounds on which payment of it is claimed must be stated . |
| 19 | Patients deteriorating to the point when renal dialysis is considered should be withdrawn from the transplant list . |
| 20 | Permission is here conceived as existing already , even though that which is permitted might be carried out ten years from now , or never . |
| 21 | If we do not know about something or do not realise what is addressed can be understood in another manner or seen through another lens , it skews our viewpoint ; it limits our options ; it clouds our perspective . |
| 22 | Idealisation of past relationships may reflect unsatisfied longings ; what is reported may be how old people would like it to have been . |
| 23 | The financial forecasts assume that the University will in due course succeed in recovering from the research councils the funds which it is expected will be lost from its HEFCE grant under the DR-shift . |
| 24 | The average wait before this is located would be half a revolution if the whole overflow track were full . |
| 25 | That being so , B can not be trying to deceive A. The only way in which the assumption that B is cooperating can be maintained is if we take B to mean something rather different from what he has actually said . |
| 26 | Provide the staff with details of where and when documents will be available for consultation , any other relevant information i.e details of exhibitions/public meetings ; when responses should be submitted ; and also supply details of which newspapers it is recommended should be provided with the Notice . |
| 27 | These figures are collected continuously , and at any particular moment details of what is happening can be worked out . |
| 28 | To say that they have priority is not to say that they have absolute hegemony over all other accounts at all other times , but rather that as a practical technique they are the accounts from which one 's initial hypotheses as to what is happening must be taken . |
| 29 | ABA requires that the aims and goals from which intervention is designed should be objectively stated . |
| 30 | But it is believed that the bank will not pull the plug in haste as its image would take a knock and the money it is owed would be unlikely to be recovered . |