Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What soon became clear was that he had also acquired a modern-day glamorous superstar . |
| 2 | What also became clear was that computers were much better used with generic programs than with specific software designed to teach , say , mathematics , history or geography . |
| 3 | One of the few things about the penal system that almost everyone agrees on is that England and Wales have an alarmingly high ( and most of the time rapidly rising ) number of people in prison . |
| 4 | The one thing all readers are likely to agree on is that Derrida is a very difficult writer , whether he is read in French or in English translation . |
| 5 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |
| 6 | Strikes are our abhorrence and the first principle laid down is that the owner 's property is the first care of the member of the society to see to' . |
| 7 | What matters most is that we should accept the peculiarity of the method rather than assume it is the natural and only way to behave . |
| 8 | Right One of the things that er we try to pass on is that you 'll pick up a lot of information which may not be relevant to you but may be relevant to members of your family or friends . |
| 9 | What is stressed rather is that the same phenomenon provides the foundation for both historical tendencies . |
| 10 | The standard Marxist critique of market relationships under capitalism has long been that what Marx called ‘ the noisy sphere of exchange ’ constitutes an illusory area of equality and freedom , one that helps to stabilize capitalism by obscuring the uneven distribution of power between social classes in the more basic sphere of social production . |
| 11 | Though it is part of national transport policy to promote the safe use of cycles on existing cycle tracks and roads , it has only been since the Tilburg and Hague results that the possible advantages of promoting route networks have been appreciated . |
| 12 | The Presbytery has not encouraged party political participation and it has only been because we felt certainly that Dr Paisley 's position , that the country needs it and we felt that he should be allowed to go . |
| 13 | ‘ I think he will win , but it has only been when he has had the sun on his back in the last couple of days that he has really come on . ’ |
| 14 | The drawbacks of this style used alone are that it can be slow and you have less control over your objective . |
| 15 | ‘ The health of people like her has not been and is not safe in Tory hands , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Consequently , more time can be spent by the clearinghouse personnel on the sophisticated and time-consuming enquiries which require information and material that has not been or can not be conveniently added to the database , an those which are of an advisory nature . |
| 17 | I am aware that , historically , south London has not been as well served by the underground as north London . |
| 18 | Long-term outcome after community-acquired pneumonia , however , has not been as well investigated . |
| 19 | First of all the local authority 's S S A as you know , has not been as we would have wished it to be , and that gives us less headroom for er , manoeuvring as it were er , with the various committees , and secondly the community care money is now solely distributed through the S S A whereas last year fifty percent of it came relating to usage . |
| 20 | The reason all this has not happened has not been because of technical problems but because there is no clear view of how government should a organized or controlled . |
| 21 | Although , having once decided under section 40(1) that an award was warranted , I would be required by section 41(1) to take account of any benefit the employer ‘ might reasonably be expected to derive ’ , section 40(1) requires me to decide whether the patent is of outstanding benefit , and I conclude that this entails my satisfying myself that such benefit has already been and is being achieved . |
| 22 | IN THE recent report of the Church of England 's Doctrine Commission , We Believe in God , the doctrine of divine impassibility , that God can not suffer , is described as ‘ the most venerable theological position ’ and so it has generally been when Christians have endeavoured to think or speak about the nature of their God . |
| 23 | The most fundamental difference to me has always been that the private sector is so much more dynamic — the rate of change is so great . |
| 24 | My opinion has always been that fishermen , at least those who fish to catch and return , are on a par with the hunting fraternity . |
| 25 | As a reader my assumption has always been that nothing ‘ happens ’ : Africans and their descendants were not , in any sense that matters , there ; and when they were there , they were decorative — displays of the agile writer 's technical expertise . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the strategy is placing renewed pressure on LAG : ‘ Lignite Action 's position has always been that they do not want to allow any form of boreholing or test-drilling by the company because this will give them a foothold into the area and once in , it will prove more difficult for them to be ousted again ’ . |
| 27 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 28 | ‘ For the railway monopolies , it has always been that they wanted the data network modernised . |
| 29 | The two are entirely compatible if it is remembered that one of the popular theories of the nature of the state itself has always been that it was founded on a contract between the individual members of a society . |
| 30 | My theory has always been that since Martin and I loathe losing to one another at games , this burns off any other rivalry between us . |