Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adj] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another familiar failing of which you should be aware is the subconscious tendency of some interviewers to always look for someone who is like them and therefore to judge people on how far they match up . |
| 2 | Why space-time should be four-dimensional is a question that is normally considered to be outside the realm of physics . |
| 3 | There is an embarrassing paradox in British technology , in that much of the information classified as ‘ secret ’ by HM Government is exceedingly trivial while much that should be secret is not . |
| 4 | Whether the law should be this is a moot point . |
| 5 | What must be certain is that their problems will be heard and evaluated . |
| 6 | The time at which these two factors must be present is when the statement is made . |
| 7 | What must be clear is that no reservation under Article 23 , however worded , can operate to extend the scope of the Convention beyond that established in Article 1 . |
| 8 | What must be true is that no system of predicting good and bad risks — computer credit scoring , personal interview , previous payment history , or any combination of these — can be infallible . |
| 9 | Tottenham , it must be said , also had key players absent but what must be disturbing is how they failed to raise their game until a double substitution in the 70th minute . |
| 10 | What could be worrying is the extremity of some of the observations on rap records , for instance . |
| 11 | I know it could be something to do with regime er banks of course are supervised by the Bank of England at the moment and er the financial services er regime is supervised by the S I B and it could be that is the reason why it is not explicitly stated er that the accountant has to be acting in his capacity as erm as auditor . |
| 12 | A checklist of some strategic factors which may be relevant is not good enough — the appropriate factors and their relative weights can only be determined through a conceptual model of the market place . |
| 13 | We opened with the simile of a wobbling jelly ; another parallel that may be helpful is the relationship between a shadow and its origin . |
| 14 | One of the factors that may be protective is calcium , but the epidemiological data are contentious . |
| 15 | THE case for believing the letter may be genuine is backed by several facts . |
| 16 | A second major subgroup for which plural anaphora may be appropriate is collections or sets introduced through descriptions which , in fact , identify the individual elements out of which the sets are formed . |
| 17 | If you have HIV and are well , the only change which may be necessary is a regular visit to the clinic or hospital for a health check . |
| 18 | Another approach that may be useful is a hybrid method . |
| 19 | A second group in whom this technique may be valuable is those in whom the number of stones or technical difficulties such as diverticuli , may expose the patient to a protracted procedure which even if successful may be detrimental for the patient — that is , the old and frail . |
| 20 | The most likely way in which a booking contract may be frustrated is through severe illness on the part of the guest . |
| 21 | What may be unusual is my conviction that constitutional change , a reordering of the formal arrangements of political power and the nature of the British State , is a precondition for the achievement of the other changes , and that demands for this change may well be the vehicle through which other aspects of the strategy are developed and used as a stimulus to political action . |
| 22 | What may be important is how Dick got into the park and whether reasonable steps were taken to prevent this . |
| 23 | The law says suggesting someone may be homosexual is worth £200,000 damages . |
| 24 | A third property which may be universal is that a change of a single molecule can , regularly and predictably , cause large-scale changes in the body . |
| 25 | They like training which they can actually apply , that has practical applications so say if you 're thinking of something like erm motivation styles or something like that , if you were gon na introduce Lounslow I du n no at the motivation there are loads of them one 's Lounslow one 's Hertzberg if you were introducing our training to a pragmatist what would be essential is you could actually show the practical application of it , if you just put forward C V and no practical application the pragmatist would say well this is all very well in theory , but how can I apply it to my job and if they ca n't they think well what 's the value of this . |
| 26 | That would be That is sixty . |
| 27 | All that would be necessary is that England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland should be treated as distinct electoral entities . |
| 28 | What I think would be nice is if , if one or two people from each group came and laid claim to some of these things and we went through them and we sort of read them out loud because it 's a bit hard to read there , and we 'll see what Bob 's view is on this and . |
| 29 | For , according to Moore , to say that an action would be right is to say that the total results of doing it would be at least as good as would be those of doing any alternative . |
| 30 | To say that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is to say this : among possible worlds where it is raining , the one which overall is most like our actual world is also one in which the balcony is wet . |