Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] be [be] " in BNC.

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31 Your objective should be being at least there should n't it ?
32 Now to me , and John Prescott 's not even in our union , shame , that man should be is doing what every other G M B member of Parliament should be doing .
33 ‘ I found very questionable that it was no ( or little ) concern that investors ’ capital might be being eroded'
34 The first indication of how large or small the yield might be is when the first leaves and tendrils begin to appear , followed by embryo bunches of grapes .
35 Any idea what gas might be being produced ?
36 All Peter will be is a sort of glorified secretary . ’
37 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 .
38 This can , in fact , be the most productive teaching time , because the children will be involved in very real problems and their skills will be being rigorously tested .
39 How great the effect of the interfaces may be is shown by a famous experiment of Professor Orowan 's with mica .
40 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 . ’
41 Exactly how extensive such economies may be is uncertain , especially in the early days of mergers between commercial banks , investment banks and securities dealers …
42 How precise an answer must be is up to the teams playing .
43 Quite what that image should be was , in 1990 , undecided .
44 The status will be be one of :
45 The evidence that proves just how deadly that combination can be is on my side .
46 A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred .
47 The earlier version of English at Nottingham as " elegant dabbling in belles-lettres " stiffened by Anglo Saxon and philology , now made way for a more Leavisian model : " My conception of what a School of English should be was considerably clarified by my reading of Dr. Leavis " notable essay entitled " A Sketch for an English School " in his Education and the University . "
48 Where there is concern that students might be being exploited by Compact employers , the Compact Directors should raise the issue immediately with the organisation concerned .
49 Taking this in the spirit in which it was written — as a joke — Mr Ford 's self-deprecation is admirable , but his limited understanding of what his role as an ex-president could be is appalling .
50 Research has indicated how radioactive contaminants may be being introduced into the human food chain via the migration of wildfowl through the Chernobyl region .
51 The result in W will be is Figure 4.10 .
52 But , like a brain , a neural network can be be taught to do things — recognising patterns , for example — by changing the strengths of the connections between its elements .
53 Quite how useful a device like the Quad-FX can be is n't really obvious until you try one out .
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