Example sentences of "be [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us look in more detail at the difficulties inherent for everyone in appropriate penetration and then at the problems that can arise in marriage when these are or an extreme nature . |
| 2 | I 'm sure , then , that readers of Dogs Today will be as concerned as I am that a well respected and successful breed rescue charity looks set to collapse this year , unless they receive real help — financial and physical — immediately . |
| 3 | Disgusted as I am that an estate full of innocent people can be used as pawns in a much more complex and devious game , this threat comes as no surprise to me . |
| 4 | The two criticisms commonly levelled at Prince are that a particular song is ‘ overdone ’ or that it 's ‘ unrealized ’ . |
| 5 | The consequence of these household arrangements today are that a very high proportion of older people live alone . |
| 6 | Disadvantages with metformin are that a minority of patients may develop a metallic taste in the mouth , indigestion or loose bowel actions . |
| 7 | The striking differences are that a team increases seeking ideas , suggesting , building and seeking clarification and decreases proposing , disagreeing , difficulty stating and clarifying/explaining/informing . |
| 8 | WHEN engineers working for the Tokyo gas company , get a telephone call in the middle of the night , the chances are that a computer will be at the other end . |
| 9 | If you can find nothing wrong with the external pickup wiring and associated circuitry , the chances are that a wire has broken inside one of the coils and will require rewinding . |
| 10 | The chances are that a management , such as described by Menninger or by myself , who take up a ‘ fight ’ /conflict posture vis-à-vis their workers , thus bring out the latent hostility and anger and push the worker , and themselves , into the rebellious position . |
| 11 | The odds are that a relationship that engenders such trust in infancy will continue to engender it in later childhood too , and who is to say at the end of it all that one period was more crucial than another in bringing about the final result ? |
| 12 | What the third defendant is asserting is a statutory cause of action under the Act of 1978 , the only necessary ingredients of which are that a person or persons , namely the plaintiffs , have against the third party a cause of action in respect of the same damage as gives rise to that person or person 's cause of action against the third defendant . |
| 13 | ( Labov 1981 : 30 ) Plainly , considerable ingenuity is needed to design rapid and anonymous survey questions which will reliably elicit the target feature , and the main advantages of the method are that a very clear view of the distribution of a single variant , geographically and sometimes socially , can be obtained extremely quickly . |
| 14 | Thus the general lessons are that a concentrated vertical market structure is not necessarily undesirable , and that freely negotiated contractual relationships are not necessarily benign . |
| 15 | The key criteria are that a person has a range of needs that can not be met by one agency alone and his or her ability to live independently is in jeopardy . |
| 16 | But such aspirations may easily be frustrated when managerial priorities are that a local population of mentally handicapped people is routinely visited and monitored and that recurrent crises are dealt with by team members . |
| 17 | The typical problems that occur are that a file created on your system using downloadable fonts works perfectly but , when you send it to another system , such as a bureau 's typesetter , what you had in , say , Bodoni Bold comes back as New Century Schoolbook Italic . |
| 18 | The prime advantages are that a group develops a high level of cohesiveness and a high regard for its task functions . |
| 19 | Among these are that a complete network may have only one start event and only one finish event ; that an event is not complete until all the activities leading to it are themselves complete ; and that a network must always move forwards in time . |
| 20 | With the principle of voluntary hospitalization accepted , and safeguards now surrounding the standards of treatment , the chances are that a better , more professionally trained mental health service will develop . |
| 21 | The important things here are that a gas water heater may require its own flue ( usually a ‘ balanced flue ’ — see Chapter 11 ) and that an electric water heater will require its own electric circuit ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 22 | Where the circumstances are that a plaintiff ( such as a mail order company ) wishes to bring separate proceedings in one county court against a great number of defendants , provision is made for a combined request and particulars of claims by the Lord Chancellor 's Practice Directions made on 1 March 1979 and 17 March 1987 setting out full instructions ; these are given in the notes under Ord 3 , r 3 in The County Court Practice . |
| 23 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 24 | Proposals are that a union vote should be broken down to reflect the divergent views in a union 's membership and apportioned accordingly . |
| 25 | Section three deals with the nineteen ninety three ninety four revenue budget , the main points for this year are that a similar saving on inflation in excess of two hundred thousand pounds can be put towards the extra items of expenditure listed in paragraph three point four , that will fall to the committee 's budget in nineteen ninety three ninety four , in addition the savings generated by the renegotiated electricity maintenance contracts contributes another eighty two thousand pounds , this leaves some two hundred and thirty thousand pounds of the extra commitments still to be financed . |
| 26 | The account he gave just after his release was that the threat had been that a British soldier might ‘ accidentally ’ shoot one of the women . |
| 27 | The result has been that a century which has seen so much development in terms of resources and method in historical research , has also seen a recurrent historical scepticism in theology . |
| 28 | So successful have these videos been that a partially self-supporting unit , NACAB Vision , has been formed which produces further training videos on a wider range of topics . |
| 29 | The assumption has been that a communication worker who is imbued by his/her faith will inevitably wish to express it in a manner which is sensitive , sincere and creative . |
| 30 | The theme of this chapter has been that a great deal of antislavery argument grew out of a fundamental concern for proper order in the world . |