Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Exactly how extensive such economies may be is uncertain , especially in the early days of mergers between commercial banks , investment banks and securities dealers … |
| 62 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 63 | An attempt to determine before operation whether peptic ulcer patients are at risk of developing postvagotomy symptoms seems laudable but in practice such clues as there may be are probably too subtle to identify with any confidence from a non-invasive gastric emptying test . |
| 64 | Nonetheless , something seems to be happening ; a new political machine may be being cranked up . |
| 65 | For example , a doctor may be able to see more patients each hour and he may be being more efficient by seeing more people in a fixed period of time . |
| 66 | Many older patients who probably neither had asthma nor died of asthma may be being entered into the statistics for asthma mortality because of inappropriate use of the word asthma on death certificates , diagnostic transfer , or coding changes . |
| 67 | Teachers and librarians can not always resist the uneasy thought that they may be being given the soft sell : like demythologizing theologians laughing too heartily at our ideas of what religious doctrine involves , perhaps the educational technologist 's bland " all we are saying is " is simply the prelude to smuggling all the old gadgetry back again while our backs are turned ? |
| 68 | In a worse condition , if a company allowed up to five versions of any drawing to be saved , with drawing blank and logo — as much as 98 per cent of redundant data may be being stored and maintained . |
| 69 | I may be being a bit paranoid , but if there is any bother , it will be the ones decked out as Leeds fans that get the trouble . |
| 70 | The numbers of baby eels in Scandinavian and European rivers are also declining , and the NRA believe that the depopulation may be being caused by an unknown factor , possibly pollution , in the Atlantic . |
| 71 | Research has indicated how radioactive contaminants may be being introduced into the human food chain via the migration of wildfowl through the Chernobyl region . |
| 72 | The most striking finding , however , is that the warming effect caused by greenhouse gases may be being slowed both by the effects of sulphur dioxide pollution , and also by the depletion of the ozone layer . |
| 73 | The engine may be be smooth , refined and flexible in its mid-range , but for a cross-country sprint it 's asthmatic . |
| 74 | Would be be cooked alive ? |
| 75 | Erm well , I mean that that would be be erm |
| 76 | It was generally assumed that they would probably prove to be complementary to each other , but what the optimum mix would be was far from clear . |
| 77 | All I would be was a punchbag for his escaping fury , the entity he saw as a new unbearable threat to his dominance in Tremayne 's stable ; the interloper , usurper , legitimate target . |
| 78 | The possessed woman , like her bewitched counterpart , becomes the immediate centre of attention and care , and although she exerts pressure upon her spouse the latter is not assailed as radically as he would be were he accused of being a witch . |
| 79 | But , having said that , we have tried in the Ministry of Defence where market testing has been the order of the day to say that it 's confusing , that would be being polite , Mr Chairman . |
| 80 | The icing on the cake would be being able to reunite people with property they 've had stolen . |
| 81 | Interactive Network Inc , the Mountain View , California company pioneering interactive television services , has filed with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to offer up to 2.5m new shares and plans to use the net proceeds for sales and marketing , purchase of hardware and for working capital ; the underwriters for the issue will be are PaineWebber Inc and Montgomery Securities Inc . |
| 82 | While in the short and medium term ( up to 3 years ) such an approach does not seem to compromise the results of transplantation , what the long term effects of such an approach will be are unclear . |
| 83 | But when that will be is not known ; the Bolton Steam Locomotive Company has not set target dates . |
| 84 | All Peter will be is a sort of glorified secretary . ’ |
| 85 | Exactly how the latter will be is still a little bit hazy , according to Shlomo Harari , managing director of another of the six companies , Adacom WorkStation Interconnectivity Ltd or ASI . |
| 86 | And what that relationship will be is not securely indicated by any surface clues ( like grammatical morphology or the presence of a fixed word-pair ) . |
| 87 | This is likely , but how great these demands will be is another difficult question . |
| 88 | ‘ If and when I make love to you , the last thing it will be is ‘ casual sex ’ . ’ |
| 89 | How reliable this will be is difficult to say , since it could n't find an old Logitech Serial Mouse we had on the test machine , but always found the pre-loaded mouse driver — but this is beta test software , so there 's still work to be done . |
| 90 | But what they will be is discreet about it all . |