Example sentences of "[vb -s] 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | What she says was is erm |
| 11 | What it means is is things like someone 's got a |
| 12 | Well what this springs up is the issue , one of the issues we started with which is democracy in the tyranny of the majority is what Mill recognizes is is that a maj well he claims to be concerned that the majority will make a decision which is against the interests of everyone , but he 's equally concerned about the issue that the majority might make a decision which is against the interests just of a picked-on minority , people with unpopular views , people who hold er members of a different religion and so on . |
| 13 | erm does is is project us on , erm , |
| 14 | Erm on what they report does is is the ringway . |
| 15 | And what it also does is is as you call off the numbers if you 've got . |
| 16 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 17 | I think the problem 's been is the problem 's been is that we do n't want to let any business go |
| 18 | I think the problem 's been is the problem 's been is that we do n't want to let any business go |
| 19 | That which hath been is now ; and that which is to be hath already been ; and God requireth that which is past . |