Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] be [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A note about choosing the sample size is in order here although the decision about how large n should be is usually difficult . |
| 3 | There are different futures , there are alternative futures , and any deterministic view of what the future will be is clearly erm something which is wrong , in my view . |
| 4 | This is likely , but how great these demands will be is another difficult question . |
| 5 | Just how difficult the reconciliation can be is seen by the conflicts created by the draft ( and redrafted ) 1984 circulars on Green Belts and Land for Housing . |
| 6 | One of the things we said the worst training session can be is going over stuff that I already have done , already known , what training have I received that they received in the past ? |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All Peter will be is a sort of glorified secretary . ’ |
| 14 | How great the effect of the interfaces may be is shown by a famous experiment of Professor Orowan 's with mica . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Exactly how extensive such economies may be is uncertain , especially in the early days of mergers between commercial banks , investment banks and securities dealers … |
| 17 | How precise an answer must be is up to the teams playing . |
| 18 | The evidence that proves just how deadly that combination can be is on my side . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The result in W will be is Figure 4.10 . |
| 21 | Quite how useful a device like the Quad-FX can be is n't really obvious until you try one out . |