Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in the educational dimension , the aims for a child aged 3–4 are that s/he is provided with opportunities for intellectual growth and pre-school learning and is well-prepared for starting school . |
| 2 | ‘ All signs are that it is making a real impact in reducing the spread of Aids , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 3 | ‘ Industrial drug research is facing a crisis ’ was the headline of a British Medical Journal editorial recently ; and all the indications in Cured to Death are that it is going to get worse . |
| 4 | ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision . |
| 5 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
| 6 | The immediate answer might well be that one is making a financial profit and the other a loss . |
| 7 | There are two solutions — either one refuses to conduct policy-oriented research in order to preserve one 's academic purity or one undertakes the research and risks the consequences which may be that one is over-identified with those who commissioned the research or those investigated . |
| 8 | Kinnock 's weakness , he riposted thoughtfully , may be that he is becoming too autocratic . |
| 9 | The main criterion for an effective service must be that it is staffed by experienced professionals who are appropriately qualified . |
| 10 | It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ . |
| 11 | The unprimed will not necessarily be diagonal as it should be if it is to satisfy the first part of eqn ( 6.16 ) . |
| 12 | It was not known yesterday what the exact number of redundancies would be but it is hoped that they can be achieved voluntarily . |
| 13 | … in-service training is often much less effective than it could be because it is based on an ‘ educational model ’ i.e. is focussed largely on the individual . |
| 14 | We are also very strongly influenced by our expectations ; if we have heard and understood half a sentence , it seems that our brain is already guessing at what the rest of it will be before it is heard , and is certainly not acting in a passive way like a simple machine . |
| 15 | So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose . |
| 16 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 17 | My complaint about reviews so far is that everyone is reviewing the man Larkin and not the biography of him . |
| 18 | What must be remembered though is that whatever is asked and answered in a survey has to be inputted in some way and once it has been processed the output has to be read by someone . |
| 19 | The general maxim of the law is that what is annexed to the land becomes part of the land . |
| 20 | The trouble is that what is measured differs from medium to medium , and , therefore , cost measurements differ almost completely between , say , TV and posters in what they are costs of . |
| 21 | The point at issue is that what is happening is not only a tragedy of today but a portent of tomorrow . |
| 22 | The rationalization is that everything is done in the interests of the patient , but it is also designed to protect professionals from feelings that are , for them , genuinely intolerable . |
| 23 | The main thing is that everything is going to be all right ! ’ |
| 24 | Its particular advantage is that everything is contained into a smaller central area . |
| 25 | The significance of fantasizing about a new house or a new flat is that one is visualizing a change in one 's work environment . |
| 26 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 27 | Another difference between the characterization of Alison and that of the three men is that she is seen totally from the outside — one sees her appearance in her face and her clothes ; we see what actions she does . |
| 28 | Chrissie is relatively young and inexperienced , and while she may be a hardened liar and criminal , we feel the balance of the probabilities is that she is telling the truth . |
| 29 | The gossip is that she is thinking of resigning from the practice and going back to her home town . |
| 30 | Studies in which rats have been fed ethanol have suggested that there is reduced ability of hepatocytes to bind to laminin , type I collagen , and fibronectin ; a possible explanation for which is that there is reduced expression or activation of specific receptors for these matrix components . |