Example sentences of "[be] [verb] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason so many things are delayed is that they have to be perfect . |
| 2 | ‘ What you are suggesting is that this Andropulos is some kind of mastermind — possible world co-ordinator — of drug-smuggling ? |
| 3 | What we are suggesting is that such an education does not add up to learning to be independent , to participating in and contributing to one 's own community , either as a child or later as an adult , as the aims of education purport . |
| 4 | I have been talking about experiences which affect both men and women ; what I am suggesting is that the role of the Weaving Mother is to spin a thread , a bond , from the ‘ raw material ’ proffered by the male . |
| 5 | What I am suggesting is that both my aunt 's remark and her attitude stemmed from assumptions already prevalent within the family as to what was appropriate behaviour . |
| 6 | What I am suggesting is that you should not underrate your ability to succeed in what is now a highly competitive market place . |
| 7 | What I am suggesting is that if education is for all then it must meet all needs . |
| 8 | All I am suggesting is that the balancing exercise should be capable of being performed . |
| 9 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
| 10 | What I am suggesting is that Spenser 's texts offer glimpses of issues which Elizabethan culture found awkward to confront directly — a belief in the precariousness of its civilisation given the existence of savagery ( exemplified by other customs , baser classes , other religions ) confronting a self-defined orderly minority . |
| 11 | So what I am suggesting is that you do n't accept this resolution and you accept a modified or amended version of it . |
| 12 | What I am suggesting is that I think if you if you concentrate only on the question of who are the chief officers that 's very important and that 's very indicative , but it 's not the whole story . |
| 13 | The only prediction which it could be claimed has been validated is that the rate of profit would fall . |
| 14 | I think what what point is being made is er albeit from assistance from should have been referred is that an operation will always have been drawn up . |
| 15 | We are told that " the reason why constituencies of about five members are recommended is that they form communities [ ? ] where electors may be expected to have sufficient personal knowledge of the candidates ' . |
| 16 | The Minister 's announcement — which again I welcome without qualification — comes six years after the Audit Commission 's report on care in the community , which in paragraph 28 highlighted the fact that then , six years ago , there were 37,000 fewer mentally ill and mentally handicapped patients than there were 10 years ago but that nobody knew where those who had been discharged were because nobody had done anything to find out what had happened to them . |
| 17 | The whole carpeting of the building which has been done was that the consultants come in look at colour schemes and say this is what to do . |
| 18 | One point which has been decided is that an odour need not be prejudicial to health to amount to a nuisance , rather in deciding the question the court will consider all the circumstances including the character of the locality in which the plaintiff is living , the nature , intensity and frequency of the odour , the time and effects of its commission . |
| 19 | ‘ One of the things that has been said is that it 's actually very difficult to get a purchaser for your shares on the USM even though in theory it 's an open market . |
| 20 | One recommendation that has been made is that there should be a ‘ decade of retirement ’ , between the ages of 60 and 70 . |
| 21 | A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’ |
| 22 | But why I am pleased that this has been , that the amendment has been accepted is because of the words and that projection 's been made of the eventual revenue requirements to enable proper future provision to be budgeted for . |
| 23 | A particular characteristic of a state in which extensive social policies have been adopted is that it is a bureaucratic state . |
| 24 | And what happens to the little oxygens once they 're discarded is that they do n't go back and join an oxygen molecule . |
| 25 | So the implication of that study and it 's a rather astonishing one , although it fits exactly with , with the argument we 're developing is that because these , these women were living in very difficult circumstances , in prison , they were even more discriminating about the offspring they were actually and they did n't carry a single one to term that had a birth defect . |
| 26 | Now the debate we 're having is whether or not we fill those and transfer , not go and recruit extra people but we 'd reduce the S I S , cos one of the issues is that erm the overspend on Marvin is seven figures . |
| 27 | Three point one okay so this is where the model , in effect what we 've done which is a very crude way , right , of erm incorporating exogamous influences , right , we have n't said tha that the war is going to affect the income or price elasticity what we did do , right , all that we 're doing is that we 're allowing the intercept of our model to change , right , now as a result , we 've got , we can prove the st the statistical significance of all the variables in our model , right , the co the actual coefficients that we 've estimated have changed quite significant , particularly in the er the incoming elasticity , right , the incoming elasticity was less than one , right , and insignificance before was now greater than one and height of R squared has also increased dramatically our measure of explanatory power . |
| 28 | Right , okay , erm let's now move on to er these other diagnostics , right , like test for structural change these diagnostic test statistics that are calculated for right , because essentially what they 're doing is that they 're testing the assumptions on which ordinary leased squares is based . |
| 29 | Now we can just rearrange that expression to get the expectation of prices for the period T , right all we 're doing is that we 're adding P T minus two , P T minus one to both sides , alright and we 'll get gamma into P T minus one erm , plus open brackets mi minus gamma into expectation at T minus two of prices at T minus one okay . |
| 30 | Now if you can go there all you 're doing is if you 're showing interest and you qualify like you reckon is it going to be worth my while , what sort of people go there , you know the R N I . |