Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 2 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 3 | It had , however , not been intended to be just an economic body . |
| 4 | If these enhancements and/or modifications are recognized to be universally applicable , will carry out the necessary work and will bear the cost of this . |
| 5 | The pragmatists , and Dewey in particular , have been criticized for being overly optimistic about the power of creative intelligence to reconstruct social institutions through a programme of educational reform . |
| 6 | The patchwork quilt of powers and relationships stipulated by the Constitution has been criticized for being neither useful nor relevant in the political environment of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 7 | Latterly , he had been criticized for being more concerned about " restoring dignity to politics " and strengthening Slovenia 's Catholic and conservative traditions than about solving the economic problems resulting from communist rule and independence . |
| 8 | Although these characters have been criticized for being too emblematic , they arguably symbolise America 's divided attitude towards the war . |
| 9 | It 's not they have not yet been developed to be wholly reliable , and there are problems to be solved to do with the fluctuation in the wind power , but I think perhaps some of those are exaggerated . |
| 10 | Such focal points have been aligned to be both clearly seen from the house and as elements of surprise when walking through the garden , an essential element of any good design . |
| 11 | Thus there is generally a presumption that business agreements are intended to be legally binding , and the courts generally accept an element of imprecision in business agreements so that " the dealings of men may so far as possible be treated as effective and that the law may not incur the reproach of being the destroyer of bargains " ( per Lord Tomlin in Hillas v Arcos [ 1932 ] All ER Rep 494 , at p499 ) . |
| 12 | Abstracts are intended to be as concise as the nature of a particular topic being dealt with allows and not to be detailed rule-books dealing with every conceivable circumstance . ’ |
| 13 | Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects . |
| 14 | They are designed to be less restrictive than full safety helmets and are known as ‘ bump caps ’ . |
| 15 | These areas are specifically set apart for retail outlets ( both large and small ) and are designed to be as convenient and pleasant as possible for both customer and retailers . |
| 16 | ‘ Most of the sounds that we are surrounded by are not musical sounds , ’ Gaver argues . |
| 17 | I am considered to be fairly outgoing but as a teenager I was painfully shy . |
| 18 | The court may require any property transferred as part of the transaction to be vested in the company , release any security given by the company , require ‘ any person ’ to make payments to the administrator or liquidator in respect of benefits received by him from the company , provide for a guarantor whose obligations have been discharged to be under revived obligations , provide for security to be given for the discharge of obligations imposed by the order and for the priority which such security shall have , and provide for the extent to which persons may be able to prove in the winding up . |
| 19 | In fact , UI claims the whole Roadmap process has been recast to be user-rather than independent software vendor-focused , detailing user-specific information such as when their suppliers will provide them with certain technologies . |
| 20 | Finally , Lowestoft members are reminded to be particularly polite to Marlene McGee , as she has been appointed to the Lowestoft bench of the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 21 | Visibility had been forecast to be generally over ten kilometres , but falling to three to five kilometres in drizzle , with scattered stratocumulus cloud to the east of the area , base 2,000 feet , increasing to broken cover to the west with a base of 1,500–2,000 feet , with occasional scattered/broken stratus base 800–1,000 feet . |
| 22 | Much of the literature on women and education tends to make this kind of distinction , arguing both for greater equality of access for girls and for changes in what are claimed to be inherently sexist curricula and values put over in school . |
| 23 | The costs of its route are claimed to be about £2.5bn . |
| 24 | Child-safe paint : We have n't found any paints that are claimed to be totally lead-free , but the safe ‘ nursery paints ’ are within the strict British and European limits for the amount of lead permitted in child-safe paints . |
| 25 | Controlled term indexing languages are claimed to be more consistent and therefore more efficient , but the many tests on indexing languages have failed to prove this convincingly . |
| 26 | This financial year , they are expected to be just over £1 billion — about one half of 1 per cent . |
| 27 | Durham are expected to be even stronger this time and competition for places will be fierce . |
| 28 | The second band , with its very long progression of vibrational peaks , is assigned to both the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the π u level , while the third and fourth bands are assigned respectively to the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the level ; both levels are expected to be strongly bonding , as suggested by the lower vibration frequencies of the ions . |
| 29 | A small number of data transfer instructions will be provided , integrated with the computer 's dominant data-types , and making available only those transfer paths which are expected to be heavily used . |
| 30 | Client versions of Windows NT are expected to be generally available by June 30 , although Microsoft chairman Bill Gates tendered a conservative 60-day timescale for introduction at the launch . |