Example sentences of "[adj] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our reasons for that are that the especially the eight year average used by the County Council , are unduly skewed by the boom of the late eighties , and give in our view , to high a trend t to erm to work from . |
| 2 | You might then wonder what the cutting of the hair had to do with it — well , one of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they cluster within individuals and sometimes within an individual 's family , and the reasons for that are that the immune responses that we have we inherit with our genes . |
| 3 | Well you 've got five threes are and twelve threes are , you 've only got two figures left , so which is to which ? |
| 4 | The main points arising from this are that : ( 1 ) the vowel system is totally different from mainstream British English in terms of vowel-length , vowel-height , diphthongization and other properties ( for example , vowel-length is not usually contrastive , as it is alleged to be in RP , and so most vowel-phonemes , such as /e/ , as in gate , save , are realized as considerably longer or shorter allophones according to consonantal environment ) ; ( 2 ) allophones of phonemes can overlap phonetically with allophones of other phonemes in a manner that is not permitted by classical phoneme theory ( Bloomfield , 1933 ) ; ( 3 ) lexical items do not necessarily belong to the same vowel phoneme classes as they do in RP and SBE ( for example , whereas good and food have different vowels in most SBE , they have the same vowel in Ulster English ) ; and ( 4 ) many sets of lexical items exhibit vowel alternations , in that the vowels in these items are realizations of two different phonemes . |
| 5 | Er human testing and immunizations is still going gone in this are and I hope it wo n't ever stop . |
| 6 | Examples of this are when we are down on our luck , have no money , are sick , misunderstood , in a corner or just feeling old . |
| 7 | The principal examples of this are when a registered shareholder ( a ) dies or ( b ) becomes bankrupt . |
| 8 | The essential elements of this are as follows : — |
| 9 | The reasons for this are as follows : |
| 10 | And what 's the difference between this been and that bean ? |
| 11 | For example , in the educational dimension , the aims for a child aged 3–4 are that s/he is provided with opportunities for intellectual growth and pre-school learning and is well-prepared for starting school . |
| 12 | The two main things that go wrong are that the ball corrodes or that the valve itself starts leaking . |
| 13 | I am heartily sick of reading letters in Points of View from folk whingeing on and on about how nasty the English are and how they are colonising Scotland . |
| 14 | And the distinction between a designated are and one that is not designated rests on what ? |
| 15 | Some are but most are n't . |
| 16 | Details of substantial holdings of the share capital of the Company at 31 May 1985 are as follows : |
| 17 | The advantage of systems such as Dbase 2 are that the user controls the number of fields available ( e.g. the school librarian may wish to have a field for the person who ordered the item and a teacher could have a list of all books or items ordered by him/herself or by the Geography department ) and the size of each field , which is limited by other programs . |
| 18 | The most certain features of Figure 9.10 are that Jupiter consists largely of hydrogen , that much of the interior is liquid/gas , that there is no atmosphere/surface interface , that there is some concentration towards the centre of icy and rocky substances ( this is required by the density versus depth ) , that the hydrogen exists in metallic form beyond a fairly modest depth , and that the interior is hot . |
| 19 | The objections to D forty are that the field should be excluded from the greenbelt . |
| 20 | The ‘ educational ’ problems of the unemployed are but one dimension of a range of negative factors — psychological , economic , environmental , and so on . |
| 21 | Wh what erm what ye what year would this be that you sort of s |
| 22 | Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ? |
| 23 | Can this be because London Transport was afraid it might give passengers ideas ? |
| 24 | Could this be because ballet lessons are now a very middle-class thing , like ponies ? |
| 25 | Would this be because she had something to hide , he wondered , or was she inhibited by her clerical top brass . |
| 26 | With party membership on the decline could one of the reasons for this be because of the cost ? |
| 27 | Could this be because the EPA , like the UK Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health , did not conclude that an effect of ‘ passive smoking ’ was demonstrated ? ’ |
| 28 | How can this be if , as the right hon. Gentleman claims , it is all a British problem ? |
| 29 | What would this be and possible remedy . |
| 30 | The two main reasons given for this were that it was too ambitious and it was too far removed from bureaux experience until too late in its development . |