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

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1 An explanation of why this should be is given in Chapter 1 .
2 He acknowledges that precisely what rules of property there should be is undetermined by this ‘ general requirement of justice ’ and he also concedes that the choice of rules will be to some extent arbitrary .
3 I was so caught up in my plurals or situations in hardship that I did n't notice that the subject in more senses than one is a singular lack , and the verb should be is and not are , therefore I must ask the indulgence of the general assembly to change the verb .
4 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 .
5 ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country .
6 A note about choosing the sample size is in order here although the decision about how large n should be is usually difficult .
7 And that 's how it should be is it ?
8 It should be is what we 've agreed in one of our suggestions , that unless you 're talking about something different .
9 How precise an answer must be is up to the teams playing .
10 What the reader comes across are events , flashes , brief encounters , steps on a journey , though what the shape and direction of the journey itself might be is hard to say .
11 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 .
12 How true the tale of this lemming population might be is beyond verification ; certainly a great deal of the monastic retelling of it could be put down to the strong regional bias of Northumbrian biographers against the strange races of the deep south .
13 What the legal force and effect of any such directive might be is uncertain ; it is unclear whether health care staff are required to carry out the terms of the directive or whether those who act in good faith with the terms of the directive are immune from civil or criminal prosecution .
14 What the outcome of seeing him might be is beside the point ; I have become incapable of calculation .
15 I mean a hundred is probably big enough , twenty five might be is more or less big enough .
16 ‘ Where I 'll be is right here in Liskeard , for the most part seated at this very desk . ’
17 so I says the only thing that 'll be is to er toast cheese on toast
18 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 .
19 I tell you what it could be is that cos you got ta know that C D's use laser to read it
20 This could be is it , Meals on Wheels ?
21 How great the effect of the interfaces may be is shown by a famous experiment of Professor Orowan 's with mica .
22 Exactly how extensive such economies may be is uncertain , especially in the early days of mergers between commercial banks , investment banks and securities dealers …
23 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 . ’
24 But when that will be is not known ; the Bolton Steam Locomotive Company has not set target dates .
25 All Peter will be is a sort of glorified secretary . ’
26 Exactly how the latter will be is still a little bit hazy , according to Shlomo Harari , managing director of another of the six companies , Adacom WorkStation Interconnectivity Ltd or ASI .
27 And what that relationship will be is not securely indicated by any surface clues ( like grammatical morphology or the presence of a fixed word-pair ) .
28 This is likely , but how great these demands will be is another difficult question .
29 ‘ If and when I make love to you , the last thing it will be is ‘ casual sex ’ . ’
30 How reliable this will be is difficult to say , since it could n't find an old Logitech Serial Mouse we had on the test machine , but always found the pre-loaded mouse driver — but this is beta test software , so there 's still work to be done .
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