Example sentences of "[be] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after a web of intrigue has been broken are the true culprits revealed . |
| 2 | The major source of radiation to which people are exposed is the natural environmental component ( table 5.5 ) . |
| 3 | The court action we are bringing is the last chance to stop these damaging cuts . |
| 4 | Implicit in what has already been said is the inescapable fact that many old people have , by reason of physical frailty , a degree of enforced dependence which is unwelcome . |
| 5 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 6 | I 'm not gon na indulge about politics with the of Europe , I believe that what we 're saying is the right way forward and I hope you 'll wholeheartedly support our resolution . |
| 7 | All we would like to do in the lab is make that same compound in a different way , and many of the compounds which are used are the same as those found in nature , the only difference is they 've been prepared in a test tube instead of being prepared in a plant . |
| 8 | What we are withdrawing is the arm's-length valuation of benefit under clause 54(4) where an employer is providing services to the employee at a cost which may be very little . |
| 9 | For example : I 'm sorry to keep pressing you for an answer but we do need to make a decision if we are to avoid being the last in the market with this product : Is it to be A or B ? ’ |
| 10 | One measure of how the dangers of plutonium are assessed is the Japanese plan to build an £88 million coastguard vessel to escort shipments of plutonium oxide from the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria for use in its prototype fast reactor at Monju . |
| 11 | Well the national account what you are saying is the national account if the work 's for is then responsible for all those accounts that happen to be from the national account manager . |
| 12 | I consoled myself ; for if it is not possible to be free , perhaps to be hidden is the next best thing , and Lili 's presence gave me , as the hours went by , the feeling that I was growing less visible . |
| 13 | One aspect of Quality Assurance which will not be devolved is the initial approval of a centre as a ‘ SCOTVEC centre ’ . |
| 14 | The main message to be communicated is the Good News of Jesus Christ . |
| 15 | The first of the few blocks that can be used in competition to be considered are the slapping blocks . |
| 16 | Also to be considered are the many strange accounts of werewolves , vampires , apart from ghosts and ghouls . |
| 17 | Among the topics to be considered are the cultural and social bases of class conflict , the politics of honour in the class struggle , symbolic action in class confrontations , millenarianism and rationality in the Anarchist Movement , the causes and incidence of violence as distinct from conflict . |
| 18 | The readership to be considered was the actual or at least predictable reading public rather than the precocious fourteen-year-old schoolgirl into whose hands it might perchance fall — unless it were in fact aimed at or distributed to fourteen-year-old schoolgirls , by whose vulnerability to corruption it should then be judged . |
| 19 | The line to be edited is the second line in the file E.CLI . |
| 20 | The last element to be added was the magnificent triumphal arch at the entrance from the Piazza del Duomo . |
| 21 | If the lecturer to be deleted is the only one that reports to a particular senior lecturer , then the information that the senior lecturer did supervise a lecturer is lost if the lecturer record is deleted . |
| 22 | The first section to be built was the southern half . |
| 23 | One foundation upon which the new studies could be built was the Humboldtian search for the geographical factors that limited the distribution of particular species . |
| 24 | Where the matter is one of European Community law the ultimate court to which an appeal may be made is the European Court . |
| 25 | Today the only red liquid to be seen is the excellent ‘ Chianti Classico ’ . |
| 26 | In any study being undertaken , the first thing to be done is the obvious one of finding out what organisations exist and whether they are part of a national body — such as the Women 's Institute , Mothers ' Union , Guides or Scouts — or purely local , such as the Film Club or the Debating Society . |
| 27 | In this case , it was held that a woman lacked capacity to consent if she had neither the knowledge nor understanding to comprehend that ( a ) what was proposed to be done was the physical fact of penetration of her body by the male organ or if that were not proved , ( b ) that the act of penetration proposed was one of sexual connection as distinct from an act of a totally different character . |
| 28 | All that was left to be done was the last-minute cooking . |
| 29 | Not to be missed is the spectacular flower carpet 1200m x 60m made up of millions of bulbs which will be replaced twice during the exhibition by late spring and summer flowers . |
| 30 | Museums not to be missed are the Royal Scottish Museum in Chambers Street and the National Museum of Antiquities in Queen Street . |