Example sentences of "be [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My experience has been that entertainers who come for just the show have maximum impact and cause great excitement , especially if they arrive dressed up . |
| 2 | The places I 've been and people I 've met have given me the confidence to carry on . |
| 3 | But to commuters and shoppers in Manchester , already used to the avenues of poles carrying overhead power lines and the herringbone-brick trackbeds in the streets , trams they are and trams they will remain . |
| 4 | The message seemed to be that women who are raped are at fault for not having successfully avoided it . |
| 5 | It could be that subjects who know the route well perform differently to those who do not know the route . |
| 6 | In published series of patients with constipation and irritable bowel syndrome or functional abdominal pain there is an excess of womeh who have had a hysterectomy but this may be because women who are referred to hospital with these disorders tend to be anxious and polysymptomatic . |
| 7 | Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ? |
| 8 | That was the interesting thing that said to Alistaire last night that a three column centimetres depending on which periodical it is or paper it 's in can do you far more good or damage than twenty at another . |
| 9 | It 's that Dee who 's having the party . |
| 10 | The point is that birds themselves are warm-blooded , like mammals , and if birds and dinosaurs are as closely related as now seems likely , then it obviously increases the likelihood that the dinosaurs themselves may have been warm-blooded . |
| 11 | The other thing to remember is that women who have sex with women may be at risk of HIV infection if they share needles or syringes to inject drugs , or use semen that has not been tested for HIV if they want to get pregnant through self-insemination . |
| 12 | A negative side of the pro-baby culture is that women who do not breed are ‘ mules ’ . |
| 13 | Since managers may be assessed on short term profitability , heavy investment in R & D may adversely affect their rating ; a second worry is that firms which invest heavily in R & D may be ‘ undervalued ’ by financial institutions . |
| 14 | The result is that riders who want to avoid heatstroke have to wear as little as possible under their jackets and most of us men have n't got used to innocently looking round to see someone undoing her jacket to reveal nothing but a clingy bra underneath ! |
| 15 | One fact which people often forget is that horses which have passed the acute clinically ill stage of the disease will still remain infectious for up to six weeks or possibly even longer . |
| 16 | The final point , on the purely technical side , is that accessories which offer automatic dialling of telephone numbers via a Hayes-compatible modem wo n't necessarily work in the UK . |
| 17 | The thrust of this argument is that tribunals which resolve disputes have matured beyond the framework envisaged by the Franks Report . |
| 18 | The only difference you will notice in normal LIFESPAN operation is that transactions which involve reading offlined modules will take longer than usual , as the modules must first be brought back online . |
| 19 | One is that they are more willing to explore new skills ; the other is that Imo herself was young , and macaques interact most with other individuals in their troop of a similar age to themselves . |
| 20 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 21 | Well my feeling is that students who graduate from here ultimately get jobs . |
| 22 | One is that policies which are focused primarily on small firms are likely to encourage only a relatively low level of technical innovation . |
| 23 | The sad truth is that doctors who spend careers in research may forgo huge incomes from private practice . |
| 24 | The fact is that Brendan himself never fought an election here , ’ said one strategist , through taut lips . |
| 25 | An obvious benefit of having the video machine under your control is that sections you can break a programme up into sections and guide your learners through it one section at a time . |
| 26 | Another forecast is that companies which have committed themselves to supplying multiple retailers — which is still being publicly advanced as the correct structural direction for the beef industry to take — could find themselves at a permanent disadvantage . |
| 27 | The main one is that investors who wish to make regular subscriptions for a period of years will need only to complete one initial application form . |
| 28 | The main disadvantage of the network approach is that areas which are not covered are thereby excluded completely . |
| 29 | The truth is that Ministers who mouth those grandiloquent guarantees know little of what is happening on the ground . |
| 30 | The point to stress is that rights which we now tend to regard as unquestionable were bones of serious contention in the past , and , like present-day calls for the return of capital punishment , might well have remained so . |