Example sentences of "[adj] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two main things that go wrong are that the ball corrodes or that the valve itself starts leaking . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And the distinction between a designated are and one that is not designated rests on what ? |
| 4 | The ‘ educational ’ problems of the unemployed are but one dimension of a range of negative factors — psychological , economic , environmental , and so on . |
| 5 | In essence , what makes Coleridge peculiar is that he was able to write , to create , from several different motives . |
| 6 | What is not at all clear is whether one highly visible target — incineration — is anything like a major ingredient in the pollution cocktail , even at Pontypool . |
| 7 | What is not so clear is whether the Principles have anticipated ail types of problem which the technology may throw up . |
| 8 | What is less clear is whether they were cut in Kent or imported ready cut . |
| 9 | What is less clear is whether these are national cultural differences , differences in the use of language and/or corporate culture influences . |
| 10 | Also not clear is whether any of the mothers received steroids to accelerate fetal maturity before delivery . |
| 11 | What is clear is that the financial cost of alcohol misuse to society as a whole runs into hundreds of millions of pounds each year . |
| 12 | What is clear is that this was all one society , in which the wives — like Mrs Lowndes herself — wrote books or maintained salons , while their husbands were functionaries , some of them much in the public eye as ministers of the Crown , others — like Frederic Lowndes — no less influential and esteemed for operating under wraps , as grey eminences . |
| 13 | What is clear is that his behaviour was geared to the available audience . |
| 14 | What has not yet been made clear is that the vice-chancellors are seriously split over the issue and some are expressing grave misgivings over the direction being taken . |
| 15 | What 's clear is that the Polo is not the all-new supermini Volkswagen would have you believe . |
| 16 | What is clear is that once Trodd , a strong and familiar collaborator had gone , dangers crowded in . |
| 17 | What is clear is that , in the above passage , he is not making the objection against himself . |
| 18 | What is , however , abundantly clear is that , unlike the 1930s , Hitler was prepared , indeed anxious , to be publicly associated during the war with the most radical steps in the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , even though , of course , his horrific statements remained couched in vile generalities , avoiding any specific reference to the details of the ‘ Final Solution ’ , which were intended to remain entirely secret . |
| 19 | What is clear is that under an Awlad Amira administration Tibbu did not seem to have acquired any of those ordinary benefits which were available to Zuwaya . |
| 20 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 21 | Mr Taylor said : ‘ What is clear is that we have come closer together . |
| 22 | What is clear is that it is social activities — such as the provision of kindergartens , youth clubs and advice centres — which would be hit first by any change to the levy . |
| 23 | What is clear is that , with few exceptions , the major avenue to career mobility in most countries is through formal post-secondary education . |
| 24 | What is now clear is that the fire posed a serious hazard to the health of people not just in Cumberland but throughout the path of a radioactive cloud which swept south-east from Windscale across England towards Europe . |
| 25 | What is clear is that the military origins of nuclear power in this country gave it a powerful boost as an infant technology , and that the umbilical cord has not been severed . |
| 26 | What is also clear is that the miners ' strike left deep ideological scars . |
| 27 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 28 | What is also clear is that it was the weaker and poorer sections of the public that were harassed most . |
| 29 | What is quite clear is that any success will rest on the basic sciences of virology and molecular biology , and that , without research into obscure aspects of these subjects the direct hunt for new cures would be no better than shooting in the dark with unfamiliar weapons at an undefined target . |
| 30 | What is clear is that the court rejected Rees 's argument that the annotation could be kept secret , on the basis of a somewhat heavy-handed assumption of what this would entail . |