Example sentences of "is [adv] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data stored in RAM chips while the computer is on must be moved to a disc before the power is switched off . |
| 2 | That this is so can be seen by contrasting sentences such as those evoked in Chapter 1 and repeated here : ( 1a ) I had nine people to call . |
| 3 | If you took the lowest number of booklets which is two and a half thousand which is probably may be a two sometimes three three doctor practice |
| 4 | We are multiplication work and there is n't should be tackled and we were very that we can not do this without and therefore we accept the grant grant fifty thousand in these four counties planning service which I would say servicing . |
| 5 | With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners . |
| 6 | ‘ Were you about to say , as it is there will be problems when your parents and Jennifer know I 'm working here ? ’ |
| 7 | I think food is unlikely because food does affect the very poor , but the likelihood is there will be VAT on newspapers and books . ’ |
| 8 | the condition is there must be at least of 'em who are prepared to go , to bring me the money for the registration |
| 9 | Such pithy pronouncements on what a discipline is about can be only of heuristic guidance . |
| 10 | yeah , which is why may be general one might be more useful dependi it depends how much |