Example sentences of "be [conj] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principles of mutual aid are that members should be involved in a reciprocal supportive role . |
| 2 | ‘ Michael Stich has definitely told us he will play and all the indications are that Boris will do so this time as well ’ said Mr Meyer-Wolden , who spent several hours on a flight back from Australia earlier in the year , putting Becker in the picture of a wide range of his views , ideas and objectives . |
| 3 | At the time of writing , the status of Andorra and San Marino remains uncertain , but the latest indications are that Andorra will be excluded while San Marino will be included . |
| 4 | But the chances are that Mansell will be racing alongside Frenchman Alain Prost next year . |
| 5 | The conclusions drawn are that perforations should be shot with the biggest charges possible , large negative pressure differentials , and that there needs to be a high shot density ; also that the mud weight over-balance — that is , the degree of pressure maintained above the reservoir 's natural pressure — during drilling should be as low as possible ; and that losses of fluids and solids to the productive reservoirs should never be accepted as a matter of course . |
| 6 | The chances are that Britain will have to find a new place to dump waste by the end of the decade . |
| 7 | Twenty six years on the chances are that Britain could , once again , be thought of as potential medal prospects . |
| 8 | Examples of these unwritten rules are that parents should play with their children , or that one should respond in the appropriate manner to a ‘ good morning ’ greeting . |
| 9 | So the chances are that Clinton will be chosen to face Bush on November 3 . |
| 10 | The chances are that Oxford WILL have to roll out the red carpet the next time Mr Clinton comes to town . |
| 11 | My own feelings are that Microsoft will win the war with Windows NT , and that IBM will keep a sizable core of committed users for OS/2 . |
| 12 | The only criteria are that applicants must be healthy , aged between 18 and 40 , and weigh over eight stones . |
| 13 | The only criteria are that applicants must be aged between 18 and 40 and weigh over eight stones . |
| 14 | The new proposals are that individuals should be taxed on all their income on a common current year basis and taxpayers who are sent returns could choose whether to assess themselves . |
| 15 | Okay , the first signs are that schoolchildren will be studying a mixture of Shakespeare , Dickens and Jane Austen . |
| 16 | Indications are that costs will compare favourably with , for instance , the cost of a bed in a private nursing home ; additional benefits of a local authority specialist unit may be the ability to provide services such as carers ' support , home care , day care , despite staff training to maximise the use of staff and buildings It is always more difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of preventive services but the higher cost of specialist provision may be offset if it has a preventive role in the wider community . |
| 17 | The likely terms of the split are that Solvay will take over sole ownership of Interox , the price being Laporte 's takeover of the organics and persulphates and cancellation or sale of most of Solvay 's shareholding in Laporte . |
| 18 | Limitations of this system at present are that subjects can only be studies in the supine position within the magnet , thus imposing constraints on both posture and movement . |
| 19 | Estimates are that waves could supply up to one fifth of our electricity demand . |
| 20 | Now that Unix System Labs has finally cut a deal for OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment , albeit through Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG ( UX No 384 ) , hopes are that X/Open may find light at the end of that particular tunnel too . |
| 21 | The reasons are that banks may choose to hold a different liquidity ratio ; customers may not take up all the credit on offer ; and there may be no simple liquidity ratio given the range of near money assets . |
| 22 | Fears are that callers will be held in a queue as they are now for Directory Enquiries . |
| 23 | The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany . |
| 24 | Her worst fear had been that Jake would show up before they had even left Lomond View . |
| 25 | The Government 's official position , dictated by the Prime Minister , has been that Britain will join the ERM when ‘ the time is ripe ’ . |
| 26 | The BMA working party refers to ‘ alternative medicine ’ — misleading terminology since the medical establishment 's greatest fear in the past has been that therapists would influence patients to treat it as just that and reject orthodox medicine . |
| 27 | Their message had been that boats should stay at least a quarter of a mile away from the whales and that sonar should never be used . |
| 28 | After Janey went back to Billy , Kevin had patched up his differences with his wife , Enid , but one of the conditions had been that Kevin would sponsor polo instead of show jumping to avoid bumping into Janey on the circuit , and because their daughter , Tracey , would meet a nicer class of young man in polo . |
| 29 | The best thing will be to tell me where you are and Daddy will come and fetch you , or Mike will . |
| 30 | As long ago as nineteen eighty six , the treasury stated in a supposed confidential document and I quote , most of the savings from contracting out are because contractors can offer poorer conditions of employment , contractors can eliminate costly bonus schemes , overtime pay and provide little , if any , sick pay and also avoid National Insurance contributions by means of part-time work . |