Example sentences of "[be] [det] " in BNC.

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31 All the signs are that , with the tight time-scale , Britain will reach a compromise decision which could be bad for the nation and bad for the future of information technology .
32 All the indications are that man 's efforts successfully to modify and refine the product of the evolutionary process by the introduction of civilisation , have been almost destroyed by the tangled mass of religious absurdity and rubbish which he has allowed to enter into it , and reduce it to but a tragic travesty of what it should be .
33 However , the only things which are spelt out are that development can not go on without them , the fact that new skills will be introduced and the fact that incomers might form a catalyst for the rejuvenation of local voluntary groups .
34 Present guidelines are that , if goods or services covered by an agreement or arrangement or other goods and services perceived by consumers as equivalent do not represent more than 5 per cent of the total market in an area of the EC affected by the agreement and the aggregate turnover of the participants in the respective group does not exceed 200 million ecu ( £130 million ) , EC competition rules will not apply .
35 Additional hurdles are that company filing requirements are not always complied with and powers to enforce such requirements do not always exist in national law .
36 Then explain the rules of the game which are that , when a whistle is blown , the children leave their seats to go on a bus ride .
37 I do not know , but I do know that many homosexuals have not chosen to be homosexual but simply are that way .
38 They do n't know her name and the chances are that she ai n't that familiar with them .
39 They are that , while a ‘ top-down ’ view of industrialrrelations might suggest that almost everything has changed — the unions ' political role virtually destroyed , govenment authority decisively asserted , and the balance of power shifted massively towards employers — the view from the shop floor is very different .
40 The implications of the very sharp fall-off with increasing distance from Kent are that such items were controlled at particular centres which maintained a near monopoly over their supply .
41 Further factors in any attempt to second-guess the result are that last time round the UDF won this portfolio and that François Léotard , the incumbent at that time , is now aiming higher in ministerial rank .
42 Granted that the whole of history may have a meaning , a purpose and a direction — and granted , too , the power and fruitfulness of many of Hegel 's ideas — are that purpose and direction so easily uncovered as he suggests ?
43 Specific requirements are that Unix or VMS is usually the primary operating system and that primary distribution is via direct or OEM sales to technical markets .
44 The propositions that this book addresses are that research is an important ingredient in the formation and implementation of effective policies and good practice in child care ; and that those who work in the child care services can not only incorporate research into their general experience , knowledge and skill but also contribute to it through their own careful observation and recording .
45 Specific requirements are that Unix or VMS is usually the primary operating system and that primary distribution is via direct or OEM sales to technical markets .
46 The signs , so far , are that Liberty can feel reassured .
47 The two messages that clearly ring out to the rest of the world from western inaction are that
48 This group 's main interests are that privatisation should be speeded up and that privatised companies should have the same rights as state-owned rivals .
49 Expectations are that , in addition to providing consulting services to Tivoli customers , Geer Zolot will develop WizDom-based applications in the area of remote systems management , enhanced security and network event tracking .
50 We are that .
51 Other possible explanations are that interferon alfa is directly toxic to hepatocytes and that it induces autoimmune chronic active hepatitis .
52 Two dangers of the purchaser-provider split are that collaboration among health care professionals may be undermined and the provider aspects of the public health role may become removed from the purchasing role .
53 My conclusions are that work which looks to family law as instrument is inadequate ; the ‘ school-rules concept ’ of law overlooks law 's part in representing and naturalizing ‘ the way things are ’ ; law 's self-denying ordinance in relation to the personal and the private is a cultural construct and not an inevitable element of ideas of law or justice .
54 The latest results are that , genetically , the difference between humans and chimpanzees is certainly less than the difference between the chimpanzee and the gorilla , or between the horse and the zebra .
55 Of course , not all dealers are that way inclined .
56 The people there are that 's going to the neighbourhood are getting a fair crack of the whip and they 're being the centre of that every week .
57 The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society .
58 A more promising strategy is to ask not how or whether a deviant sentence can be corrected , but what the minimal changes are that will render it normal ; then we examine the nature of the changes .
59 Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries .
60 the brake lights are that there .
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