Example sentences of "be [conj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early indications are that Britain 's system X , which Telecom is gradually introducing is not particularly favoured . |
| 2 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 3 | It could also be that Widnes 's match with Barrow last Sunday will be deducted from his current eight-match suspension . |
| 4 | Bede 's statement that Chad was sent by Oswiu to the archbishop of Canterbury to be consecrated , only to find that Deusdedit had died ( HE 111 , 28 ) , is unlikely to be correct because Wilfrid had known that Deusdedit was dead when he was earlier seeking consecration as Ealhfrith 's bishop and the probability must be that Oswiu 's court would have known this too . |
| 5 | It may be that Mark 's Church preserved the words for this very reason . |
| 6 | Could it also be that Darlington 's fun and games loving Labour councillors have finally had a change of heart over conferences ? |
| 7 | If Gooch is dropped then there will be plenty of debate over his replacement as captain and it may be that Gatting 's experience will gain the vote over Stewart , though I would not completely discount Moxon . |
| 8 | The theological justification behind such an approach ( not that I had necessarily thought this out at the time when I was a member of the church ) must surely be that God 's will must be held to be one with what is good , and therefore what Christianity proclaims can not differ from human ethical goods . |
| 9 | It may be that Aethelwald 's genealogy does not survive because his family did not claim descent from Ida and it is possible that he was descended from Oswine of Deira . |
| 10 | It may be that Chilperic 's death came to be seen in a new light after the Burgundian wars of the 520s and 530s . |
| 11 | It may be that Larkin 's poem and the person we meet there participate in the ventriloquism of Amis 's novel . |
| 12 | It may be that David 's teacher would consider it appropriate to wonder why he thought mummies and daddies could n't go on the slide . |
| 13 | Yes and I 'm and Sophie 's partner today . |
| 14 | Many a godly Jew must have felt what a wonderful thing it would be if Moses ' longing could be fulfilled , ‘ Would that all the Lord 's people were prophets , that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them ’ ( Num. 11:29 ) : and that is just what the prophets were led by God to foretell for the last days . |
| 15 | They decided that it could only be because Joan 's health was so poor in the fens that the professor was forced to move . |
| 16 | They were that Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 17 | The incident was much discussed and analysed , the question being whether Hunt 's car was even with Depailler 's at the crucial juncture or not . |
| 18 | Whitford 's view is that Irigaray 's work has been read out of context , and that we need to give much more careful attention to the psychoanalytic dimension of her thought . |
| 19 | What is important to stress is that Nizan 's life and work must be seen in the context of his youth . |
| 20 | Underneath the scorn , the subtext is that Morrissey 's art lacks a vital virility . |
| 21 | The biggest shock in the new round of cuts is that IBM 's forecasting last year was so abysmal that despite the fact that 40,000 people will have left by the end of the year where it was only counting on shedding 20,000 , it still has to make more cuts . |
| 22 | The argument is that Senna 's crime as he rushed past the scene of an accident was infinitely more dangerous than Mansell 's failure to stop on the command of a black flag . |
| 23 | The first is that Land 's theory of colour perception makes sense of there being two cortical stages in colour vision . |
| 24 | What we do find , however , is that women 's work is not so divorced from the work of men as it becomes in later times . |
| 25 | One is that women 's fear of rape by a stranger is inborn ; another is that crime reporting tends to focus on violent crime , particularly against women . ’ |
| 26 | The answer , we shall see , is that Bourdieu 's position on these matters is a far cry from Habermas 's universalistic modernism . |
| 27 | The nightmare of officials is that Japan 's fertility rate might keep going down until it hits western German levels — 1.28 at present . |
| 28 | Okay Linfield and Bangor are probably two of the best teams in Irish football but the point I 'm making is that Carrick 's team deficiencies were blatantly exposed for all to see . |
| 29 | What does emerge from it is that Norris 's way of reading Derrida is likely to make considerable demands on the reader . |
| 30 | The real problem is that Televisa 's experience in Mexico may have convinced it that a strategy which worked well in a market where the company was protected by the government is one that will succeed in the face of intense competition . |