Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] be [be] " 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 If it is not , the bid should be be blocked .
3 Many people in Russell 's Water think they know what happened to Jim Eggleton , and think the killer could be being protected locally .
4 It was generally assumed that they would probably prove to be complementary to each other , but what the optimum mix would be was far from clear .
5 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 .
6 Nonetheless , something seems to be happening ; a new political machine may be being cranked up .
7 The engine may be be smooth , refined and flexible in its mid-range , but for a cross-country sprint it 's asthmatic .
8 Interactive Network Inc , the Mountain View , California company pioneering interactive television services , has filed with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to offer up to 2.5m new shares and plans to use the net proceeds for sales and marketing , purchase of hardware and for working capital ; the underwriters for the issue will be are PaineWebber Inc and Montgomery Securities Inc .
9 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 .
10 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 ?
11 Many older patients who probably neither had asthma nor died of asthma may be being entered into the statistics for asthma mortality because of inappropriate use of the word asthma on death certificates , diagnostic transfer , or coding changes .
12 She and the pole must be being drawn towards the sea .
13 The offence must be a ‘ serious arrestable ’ one ; the investigation must be being ‘ conducted diligently and expeditiously ’ ; and there must be a need to secure or preserve evidence or ‘ to obtain such evidence by questioning him ’ [ emphasis added ] .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The icing on the cake would be being able to reunite people with property they 've had stolen .
18 The numbers of baby eels in Scandinavian and European rivers are also declining , and the NRA believe that the depopulation may be being caused by an unknown factor , possibly pollution , in the Atlantic .
19 But what its content should be was left at first to the experts .
20 Right the other thing Ann you you really must get given you pieces of titles you know because that should steer you into it you know the title should be be the first peg you hang your hat on , that 's the first thing .
21 Where the wall should be was a space , a mist , a foggy drop into infinity …
22 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 ) .
23 manager should be be a major priority .
24 Plans are far from fixed , but the replacement could be be Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA RISC , since the Japanese firm has already reportedly pledged to buy $80m worth over the next three or four years .
25 If objections based on uncertainty have any validity , then that word must be being used in a third sense .
26 Your objective should be being at least there should n't it ?
27 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 .
28 ‘ I found very questionable that it was no ( or little ) concern that investors ’ capital might be being eroded'
29 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 .
30 Any idea what gas might be being produced ?
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