Example sentences of "what be [vb pp] [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is missed is that alongside an increase in centralized control has been persistent dissent ; domination — social , economic and ideological — has been maintained only through struggle . |
| 2 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |
| 3 | What is envisaged is that at least the above six mentioned countries will form a currency union by the end of the decade , while the remaining EC countries enter into an EMS type relationship with the union until they have converged sufficiently to become union members . |
| 4 | What is envisaged is that every client will be informed at the outset that a procedure exists for dealing with " problems " : it is not necessary to mention the word " complaint " at this stage . |
| 5 | What is overlooked is that predators also benefit from being concealed from their prey . |
| 6 | However , what is expected is that the Bank of England will require all banks under the Banking Act of 1987 to keep a ratio of ‘ primary liquid assets ’ to some definition of deposit liabilities . |
| 7 | What is known is that the bank has lent Pathe $250m to finance the MGM purchase , plus an undisclosed sum linked to the sale of some of the rights to the studio 's film library . |
| 8 | Rose of Lima herself did not write her memoirs , or anything else , so her subjective understanding of this painful phenomenon is not really known ; what is known is that she offered her life explicitly for the conversion and salvation of those suffering people — one of the reasons , obviously , why she later seemed an appropriate patron for the New World . |
| 9 | What is known is that this last pre-Roman culture had a vitality and civilization that compared with that of the Greeks . |
| 10 | What is known is that the founder-members of this century 's most influential occult order , The Golden Dawn . |
| 11 | What is known is that the truce will only hold till the losing interest group can find the opportunity to create another conflict which it might win . |
| 12 | What is known is that some of the islands definitely do move and this is no mere illusion . |
| 13 | What is known is that nearly 8000 young people leave care each year at 18 and many others at 16 and 17 , and are not provided with any semblance of the help and support which a good parent would give not only to these age groups but often to many young people of 19 , 20 or even older . |
| 14 | The plan is officially under wraps until the product 's launch next month , but what is known is that the GIGAswitch will have a switching capacity of 3.6Gbps , 6.25m dynamic connections per second and full duplex Fibre Distributed Data Interchange transmission at 200Mbps . |
| 15 | What is known is that Littlewoods has a virtual monopoly ( over 75% ) of the £750 million pools market . |
| 16 | What is known is that seven deaths on this motorway HAVE been attributed to it . |
| 17 | What is shown is that crime-rates ( especially for property offences ) were higher during periods of unemployment than of employment . |
| 18 | What is meant is that an organism does something which reduces its own chances of survival and reproduction , and increases the chances of other members of the species . |
| 19 | When it is said ( as we shall say ) that the sentence That 's a dog entails the sentence That 's an animal , what is meant is that in any conceivable situation in which That 's a dog can ( with appropriate reference ) express a true proposition , there exists a corresponding proposition ( i.e. with no change in the referents of referring expressions ) expressible by That 's an animal , whose truth is a necessary consequence of the truth of the first proposition . |
| 20 | A change of context is not enough ; what is required is that the subjects receive their test in a context in which they have previously undergone latent inhibition training with the target stimulus . |
| 21 | What is required is that the language which is pedagogically presented should be a projection of that which actually occurs as recorded by the computer analysis of text . |
| 22 | What is required is that the patient knew in broad terms the nature and effect of the procedure to which consent ( or refusal ) was given . |
| 23 | Malice in the sense of malevolence , spite or ill will is not essential for liability ; what is required is that the combiners should have acted in order that ( not with the result that , even the foreseeable result ) the plaintiff should suffer damage . |
| 24 | What is required is that students are helped to see beneath the surface appearance of their core discipline ; and that the concepts and perspectives of philosophy and sociology are valuable in bringing about that exposure of the discipline . |
| 25 | What is suggested is that the supposed right to self-determination may not be the creature it is thought to be . |