Example sentences of "be [verb] [is] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whether all of these older people will be retired is a separate point , not to be taken for granted , to be discussed below . |
| 32 | This endorsement should be added where the building to be insured is a Farm House . |
| 33 | How far their goodwill can be stretched is a moot point . |
| 34 | Although these differences appear when the item to be remembered is a source of arousal , it is not clear that memory differences for central and peripheral information are actually related to general effects of arousal on performance . |
| 35 | Mr Blair 's plea for the party-political baggage to be abandoned is a precious opportunity that must be grasped , not least by John Major , who just two weeks ago was blaming crime on ‘ socialism ’ . |
| 36 | Not that this is to say that no industry should be owned by the State , not even when , for example , a service to be provided is a natural monopoly ; and the presumption is , therefore , that those who provide it should be accountable to users who can not register dissatisfaction by taking their custom elsewhere , rather than to private owners whose interest is to exploit the monopoly . |
| 37 | He also reminds us that what is to be attempted is a ‘ cultural revolution and not some unimpeded process of social growth ’ ( Williams , 1983 : 273 ) . |
| 38 | The greater flexibility of the 60-second format has encouraged the trend , and the fact that the cinema audience is known to be there expecting to be entertained is a powerful incentive to provide what it wants . |
| 39 | Whether the roles of chairman and chief executive should be split is a secondary issue which can be meaningfully addressed only when the company 's needs have been defined . |
| 40 | The " push " instruction performs the following sequence of operations : Increment the modifier field Store the new data at the address pointed to by the modifier field The " pop " instruction performs the following sequence of operations : Extract the contents of the store location pointed to by the modifier field Decrement the modifier field This pair of instructions is available on the DEC PDP- 10 computer , where the stack pointer is the modifier field of a specified accumulator , and the source of the data to be pushed or destination of the data to be popped is a specified store location . |
| 41 | One of the projects which will be supported is a new rapid rail transit system , the Randstad Rail , for the country 's capital , The Hague . |
| 42 | Note that a judge or district judge may sue or be sued in accordance with the rules set out below , but if the court in which the action would be commenced is a court of which he is judge or district judge , then the action may be commenced in the nearest court or most convenient one of which he is not the judge or district judge ( Ord 4 , r 7 ) . |
| 43 | The most meaningful and effective way in which such output can be combined is a topic of on-going research ( Hull et al , 1991 ) . |
| 44 | One of the first to be discovered is a star that is orbiting around Sirius , the brightest star in the night sky . |
| 45 | How such enquiries might be conducted is a question which is considered in the next chapter . |
| 46 | Even the simplest , most basic requirement we make of translation can not be met without difficulty : one can not always match the content of a message in language A by an expression with exactly the same content in language B , because what can be expressed and what must be expressed is a property of a specific language in much the same way as how it can be expressed . |
| 47 | The Derivatives Risk Warning Notice which must be sent is a standard document prepared by the SFA . |
| 48 | The extent to which subject coverage on the shelves can be achieved is a matter of library policy , funding , the amount of shelf space available , and the efficiency of interlending systems to which the authority has recourse . |
| 49 | Therefore the plan of how the maintenance operation is to be achieved is a significant factor in underwriting delivery confidence . |
| 50 | Do n't overdo the detail , as what is to be achieved is an impression of the whole scene and any over-emphasis on detail can detract from the foreground colour variations and reflections which are the main feature of the picture . |
| 51 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Portsmouth , which is connected to the continent by the finest ferry services in the country , there is a growing realisation that success at Maastricht is crucial to trade and investment , on which jobs depend , and that the main prize to be achieved is an agreement which recognises the importance of closer co-operation between European nations rather than moves towards inevitable integration ? |
| 52 | The way it should be funded is a matter for governments to decide . |
| 53 | All that would be required is a change in practice . |
| 54 | What tends to be missing is a more structured approach to information management , along with more convenient tools to facilitate it ’ ( Thom 1993 : 77 ) . |