Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How precise an answer must be is up to the teams playing . |
| 7 | The earlier version of English at Nottingham as " elegant dabbling in belles-lettres " stiffened by Anglo Saxon and philology , now made way for a more Leavisian model : " My conception of what a School of English should be was considerably clarified by my reading of Dr. Leavis " notable essay entitled " A Sketch for an English School " in his Education and the University . " |
| 8 | Quite how useful a device like the Quad-FX can be is n't really obvious until you try one out . |