Example sentences of "be missing be " in BNC.

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1 Other faces who will be missing are winger Rob Egerton , who will be in the United States where his wife will be studying , while both Steve Cutler and Jeff Miller have announced their retirements .
2 What tends to be missing is a more structured approach to information management , along with more convenient tools to facilitate it ’ ( Thom 1993 : 77 ) .
3 The telly faded , the shoddy oilcloth vanished , the beautiful sunshine we were missing was forgotten .
4 Blackburn have won only one of their last 10 games and Dalglish says all that is missing is the bounce of the ball .
5 The only thing that is missing is the smell of steam and hot oil and that never seems all that far away .
6 It is as if all plans for radical reform ( and it must be remembered that the new media bring about substantial structural reforms to broadcasting ) can not be contemplated ; although , in fact , what is missing is a coherent argument for the preservation of the existing system .
7 All that is missing is reasoning of an inductive or abductive sort ( in the parts of ethical thought which can not be hived off as ‘ factual ’ ) and even for this there is a kind of substitute .
8 What is missing is an appropriate forum to merge the various efforts into a functional and widely acceptable whole .
9 All that is missing is the outer framework .
10 What is missing is the sense of the reality of childhood as it is directly experienced by children .
11 The only thing that 's missing is a severed horse 's head .
12 What 's missing is the I-Pursues who actually do something .
13 What 's missing is a genuinely creative interest in local talent , it 's as simple as that .
14 Combine the three and all that 's missing is the software .
15 All that 's missing is the software to drive it all , and that was n't long in coming .
16 The fact that Blake was missing was not discovered until 7.20 p.m. and the first call to the police did not occur until 7.43 p.m. so Blake had roughly two hours ' start .
17 In many districts the normal response when one 's animal was missing was to visit a person well known to have connections with local thieves , and give him a chew of betel , a wad of tobacco , and five rupees .
18 All that was missing was the terms of the rights issue .
19 The only thing that was missing was any audience .
20 ‘ The fact that your uncle was missing was n't reported to the police until Sunday morning — is n't that rather odd ? ’
21 The only thing which was missing was the recognised transport qualification , a Certificate of Professional Competence , so , determined not to let this official piece of paper prevent her from doing the job she undertook a study course and was soon legally qualified to run the fleet .
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