Example sentences of "be is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking this in the spirit in which it was written — as a joke — Mr Ford 's self-deprecation is admirable , but his limited understanding of what his role as an ex-president could be is appalling . |
| 2 | Ala I want my writing to be is modest , restrained , colourful , truthful … . |
| 3 | Now , all you need to be is Tammuz Malamute . |
| 4 | The last place you want to be is in church . |
| 5 | The all-American claim that You Can Be Anything You Want To Be is an obvious fraud , but while Jimmy Connors is on court , you can believe it . |
| 6 | That it appears to be is its power . |
| 7 | What the reader comes across are events , flashes , brief encounters , steps on a journey , though what the shape and direction of the journey itself might be is hard to say . |
| 8 | An explanation of why this should be is given in Chapter 1 . |
| 9 | The assertion that a trust is valid because a testator wants it to be is misleading . |
| 10 | Smith 's unfavourable opinion , which does not seem justified in respect of Coleman 's professional career , is expressed in what seems to be is an inexplicably biassed manner . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Quite how useful a device like the Quad-FX can be is n't really obvious until you try one out . |
| 13 | We wish also to persuade him that once he takes fully into account that his ultimate goals are spontaneous ( are , not ought to be ; what they ought to be is intelligent as well as spontaneous ) , he will require no first principle other than ‘ Be aware ’ for choosing between them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | How great the effect of the interfaces may be is shown by a famous experiment of Professor Orowan 's with mica . |
| 16 | One of the most confusing places to be is the lift at the BBC Television Centre . |
| 17 | An indication of the powerhouse force she plans to be is the existence of a shortlist of top business women , earmarked for her ‘ Chief of Staff ’ . |
| 18 | But when that will be is not known ; the Bolton Steam Locomotive Company has not set target dates . |
| 19 | All Peter will be is a sort of glorified secretary . ’ |
| 20 | A good example of how nasty one can be is to be had from the chimpanzee language experiments . |
| 21 | Exactly how the latter will be is still a little bit hazy , according to Shlomo Harari , managing director of another of the six companies , Adacom WorkStation Interconnectivity Ltd or ASI . |
| 22 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |
| 23 | He acknowledges that precisely what rules of property there should be is undetermined by this ‘ general requirement of justice ’ and he also concedes that the choice of rules will be to some extent arbitrary . |
| 24 | Exactly how extensive such economies may be is uncertain , especially in the early days of mergers between commercial banks , investment banks and securities dealers … |
| 25 | Which services these are to be is always a matter of dispute and may be a crucial factor in relations between central and local government . |
| 26 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 27 | Over Christmas and the New Year , the best place to be is Disneyworld in Florida for truly magical celebrations . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | sort of , to put it , I 'm gon na be is that as from tomorrow we will have identified what erm desking and so on will be moved during the reorganization erm , and obviously any of the desking that is n't gon na be moved until the organization , we 'll be tidying up the cables . |