Example sentences of "[verb] [be] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just how great the change has been is perhaps best illustrated by reference to the number of daily commuters into London . |
| 2 | However , what the net result of the activity has been is unclear , as DEC says it is now closing down its VLIW-on-Alpha work — having failed to enlighten us as to the reasons why — but , at the instruction level , it is thought that Multiflow 's trace compilers were being pressed into service to boost the speed at which the RISC could execute programmes . |
| 3 | What there has been is a steady process of learning that management and business is a pragmatic matter depending entirely on people and how they react . |
| 4 | It is a great struggle to maintain this kind of mental attitude , but how successful it has been is difficult to assess . |
| 5 | One of the biggest changes there has been is in the attitude towards people who have AIDS . |
| 6 | How widespread this development has been is difficult to judge . |
| 7 | Unfortunately little excavation has taken place in the interiors of these fortified sites and what has been is not very informative for , in many cases , the combination of stone-robbing and deep-ploughing has reduced even masonry buildings to amorphous scatters of stone . |
| 8 | for me to sign , I said I 'm sorry I 'm not signing them and I would n't sign any of them and he went back and he said alright then we 'll leave it in your husband 's name , I said yes you 'd better had cos he still owns the house , yet all those bills have come through , I 've had water rates come through in my name , I 've had the electricity come through it 's in my name , the only one bill that was never in his name , never has been is the telephone and that 's included |
| 9 | First category I suggest is is about attitude in the sense of liking , disliking . |
| 10 | And what I 'd like to know is is the board . |
| 11 | Because what we what we want to know is is those jobs where we have done well , because we can learn the bollocking lessons from them . |
| 12 | What I 'm say is is it 's it 's not what you say . |
| 13 | If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now . |
| 14 | It 's no good Lyn , no , what I 'll do is is exercise . |
| 15 | All you got ta do is is just phone up and give them your |
| 16 | Erm and er that it 's maybe very important at a time like this when children are potentially going and and knocking on stranger 's doors to be particularly careful so what we 've done is is is put together a simple guide for parents and carers erm which suggests that er they should n't just let their children go off for the evening . |
| 17 | Erm , what we have done is is because what is important is to look at that particular and try and get as good an estimate as we can because , let's face it , if we over-budget then in fact we 're wasting money which could otherwise be really targeted on community resources . |
| 18 | What what we 've done is is is print our names in capital letters there . |
| 19 | Th erm , the the other one that came up was erm , er and even Anne agreed that er , smoking if you must smoke is is for adults , not for children , now how do you erm , we 've we 've touched on advertising , is there anything else that might be done to dissuade children from smoking ? |
| 20 | What she says was is erm |
| 21 | Well as far as we can work out what actually happened is is the referee does give a free kick for this back pass there . |
| 22 | But when you see that divide sign , it 's not always halving is is it ? |
| 23 | Keeper picks it up now Rozario you can see is is is protesting . |
| 24 | The problem I 've got is is er I know what I want to do and you told me what are doing , so from that I have a good picture of what how I should approach it . |
| 25 | Erm , Chairman , w would the spokesman agree that the that the resources argument which she has just used is is completely fallacious and would she rather expect |
| 26 | What happened in Liverpool when Liverpool were playing ho oh , Nottingham Forest , and what happened was is that there was extra fans coming in to the ground and the police let them in and then everyone just started to get squashed and all that . |
| 27 | Remember being is a level of intellect , whereas the one is above being . |
| 28 | Er but calming is not the only issue er er calming is is important and we recognise that but it seems to me that with that you have to enhance reliable public transport . |
| 29 | I would agree er , that it 's strange er once you start something , I mean people come up and say well we 've got a whole information bank here and other people have a whole information bank there and yet the ability of people who are caring , for adults or children , to get out , run round forty agencies and come home loaded with leaflets , pushing three children and a parent , you know is is quite difficult ! |
| 30 | And er over the years we 've built up a reputation I know is is a genuine one say that because I know that you 're going to appreciate this course and I use the term very very particularly you will enjoy it . |