Example sentences of "be [conj] [art] [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 2 | The disadvantages are that the technique is very ambitious , is sensitive to data inaccuracies and incompleteness , and technical problems of model validation are formidable . |
| 3 | Complaints about noise have increased tenfold in the past fifteen years , and all the signs are that the problem is still getting worse . |
| 4 | Where unemployment is not defined as per the Act the only common requirements within the policy wordings are that the claimant is in receipt of unemployment benefit ( or registered as unemployed with the DOE/DHSS ) and is available for/actively seeking employment . |
| 5 | The major problems facing the industry are that the product is still seen as difficult to cook and boring by non-buyers , said Keith Simpson , head of the British Turkey Information Service ( BTIS ) , at the annual turkey industry conference in Norwich yesterday . |
| 6 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 7 | The advantages put forward for the traditional system are that the project is fully designed before the tender and , therefore , the cost should in theory be known at the commencement of the contract . |
| 8 | The chances are that the answer is no . |
| 9 | The problem has been that the field is owned by the builders Wimpey Homes , who refuse to allow the path to be developed unless they are given planning permission to build on at least part of the field . |
| 10 | The other trend has been that the midfield is more cluttered than it ever was . |
| 11 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 12 | Last September Mrs McIvor reported that complaints had dropped by 25pc , but that the reduction may have been because the public is not fully aware of her work . |
| 13 | If the telephone conversation amounts to no more than an inquiry or preliminary discussion , it may be that no contract is made then . |
| 14 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 15 | The literal meaning seems to be that a man is so full of the Holy Spirit that he carries conviction when he speaks about Christ . |
| 16 | The true moral seems to be that a choice is difficult not because we can not decide which is the better but because we can not bear to give up the one that has not been chosen . |
| 17 | It may be that a judge is well qualified to conduct enquiries to establish what took place on particular occasions . |
| 18 | The key determination is whether ‘ originality ’ exists in the selection or arrangement of the database.The current position under UK law would seem to be that a database is protected under copyright law even if it only attains the ‘ sweat of the brow ’ criteria . |
| 19 | It may thus be that a client is a corporate finance client for some activities but not for others . |
| 20 | The common law position appears to be that a dealer is not normally the agent of the finance company , and a customer is bound by the terms of the document , unless the finance company knows that it does not accord with the customer 's intentions ( United Dominions Trust Ltd v Western [ 1976 ] QB 513 ) . |
| 21 | If a piece of music is frenetic and forceful , it may well be that an interlude is a peaceful moment like the ‘ calm before the storm ’ . |
| 22 | Again , the better view would appear to be that an announcement is sufficient . |
| 23 | It could be that the recession is biting , and that people just do n't have the kind of money to spend on records that they used to . |
| 24 | It may be that the question is one of degree : to what extent is a pocket calculator ‘ intelligent ’ ? |
| 25 | This looks as if the intervention is effective but it may be that the child is just responding to rewards rather than learning new behaviour . |
| 26 | In the following example , the question-tag is ‘ are n't they ’ ; when it has a falling tone , as in ( a ) , the implication is said to be that the speaker is comparatively certain that the information is correct , and simply expects the listener to provide confirmation , while the rising tone in ( b ) is said to indicate a lesser degree of certainty , so that the question-tag functions more like a request for information . |
| 27 | The answer must be that the bird is designed by nature for this medium in the same way that dolphins are designed for life beneath the sea . |
| 28 | But it may be that the company is producing a range of products and has set up separate units or subsidiaries to exploit each product market . |
| 29 | But since the early 1970s , there has been a great deal of controversy about it and the prevailing mood in the accounting profession appears to be that the system is archaic and needs replacing . |
| 30 | It may be that the case is out of line with modern mores . |