Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes what I It 's usual to say is that I I desire or direct that no more than two should prove it . |
| 2 | Surely now just months before the Cornmill is due to open is the time to ensure the town 's assets such as easy town centre car parking are in good working order . |
| 3 | By 2010 a total of 545 tonnes of plutonium is due to have been separated . |
| 4 | Some local authorities may refuse to accept development of the site unless the section of the access road that is private has been adopted by the local authority . |
| 5 | Erm the market value he 's right to say is now twenty eight million two hundred and twenty four pounds er two hundred and twenty four thousand six hundred and twenty four pounds erm and that 's what 's happened to the interest . |
| 6 | But unless it is possible to escape being moved from other viewpoints , our selfishness can not perfect itself to its theoretical absolute except in such circumstances as a tooth-and-claw fight for survival . |
| 7 | Here again , hopefully protected with a ‘ Black Owned ’ sign , was a McDonald 's that had been spared . |
| 8 | If you know that he is righteous you will know that everything everyone who does what is right has been born of him . |
| 9 | What 's interesting to know is , what is the maximum value that that can attain ? |
| 10 | ‘ Something like 30 per cent of the contracts the MoD is prepared to let are now operated by contract caterers , and those include facilities management as well as pure catering . |
| 11 | The customers AT&T is keenest to serve are global firms wanting global services . |
| 12 | What is easier to handle is information — and management information which is planned and delivered in predetermined packages should be particularly straightforward . |
| 13 | Taking over someone else 's project when it 's half complete is never easy , there is little attraction for new blood to slog away at fulfilling the ambitious plans of others . |
| 14 | That Hale 's rationale is vacuous has been pointed out repeatedly . |
| 15 | Genetic experimentation remains the most popular theory , but though Hopkins has plenty of wild stories about artificial insemination , or half-breed alien/human babies already in existence ( all strictly off the record of course ) all he 's prepared to say is that things are coming out into the open . |
| 16 | The view that syntactic analysis is autonomous has been put forward most consistently by Forster and his co-workers ( Forster and Ryder , 1971 ; Forster and Olbrei , 1974 ; Forster 1979 ) . |
| 17 | Well it 's easy to change is n't it ? |
| 18 | what is sad to see is that a player like tony dorigo has not yet scored a goal this season and the same for kelly — that is : our wide defenders has not ( yet ) been a threat to the opposite team — which — if i rememeber correctly — did happen a couple of seasons back with both Love-Machine Sterland and Tony getting the occasional goal . |
| 19 | Last time , she was here to help promote her new series of videos which , five years after their conception , she is delighted to see being made available to the public . |
| 20 | Selfishness is a part of basic survival instinct , therefore it is impossible to avoid being concerned with self when one does not believe anyone else is . |
| 21 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 22 | That 's average looking is n't it ? |
| 23 | One simple solution which is easy to interpret is obtained by requiring that each term in the wave equation is separately zero . |
| 24 | The belief amongst the journalists , local state officials and community elders that heroin use is widespread has been confirmed . |
| 25 | What one is supposed to do is put a screw in each side of the head , put on calipers and hang weights off to put their head in traction . |
| 26 | but as mummy says it 's not what a respectable headmaster is supposed to do is it ? |
| 27 | But in 1483 Richard of Gloucester , later Richard III , is supposed to have been in residence when he first heard news of the murder of the princes in the Tower . |
| 28 | At the Paris exhibition of 1900 ( the one at which Oscar Wilde is supposed to have been recorded ) , the Columbia company introduced their ‘ Multiplex Grand ’ machine , using a giant cylinder played by three styli and horns . |
| 29 | The Carlow Stone on the shore is supposed to have been hurled at the selfish inhabitants of the village by a giant . |
| 30 | The present building is supposed to have been erected in 1333 , when the church was made collegiate by Sir John de Heslerton and housed six chaplains and three clerks . |