Example sentences of "[be] striking be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is striking is that the responses bear almost no resemblance to the issues being discussed in the election campaign . |
| 2 | What is striking is that the weight of crack seized by the police was only 0.85 kilograms and by the customs only 0.05 kilograms . |
| 3 | Throughout this period what is striking is the perpetual fluctuation between the serious and the humorous , between a desperate situation and an ironical response . |
| 4 | What is striking is that Peada was baptized by Fínán , Aidan 's successor as bishop of Lindisfarne , at Ad Murum in the vicinity of Hadrian 's Wall , and that he took back with him four priests , Cedd , Adda , Betti and Diuma , to work among the Middle Angles , the Irishman Diuma receiving consecration from Fínán , according to Bede , as bishop of the Middle Angles and the Mercians ( HE 111 , 13 ) . |
| 5 | But what is striking is not so much the fact that Auguste Comte or Herbert Spencer were , after all , persons of some intellectual stature , than that men who were once regarded as the Aristotles of the modern world have practically vanished from sight . |
| 6 | What 's striking is the number of us who have gone on to become foreman or engineers . ’ |
| 7 | What was striking was that the women artists were reshaping an inherited iconographic language and that it had become theirs to stake out as their own : the language of the body . |
| 8 | An in-depth study of parental opinions about values in schooling found parents have strong opinions , but what was striking was the lack of willingness to become more involved in how the school goes about dealing with the issue . |