Example sentences of "be [conj] [indef pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own personal rule for very many years has been that anybody is free to criticize me , to criticize the company , to question or argue against anything that we are trying to do — provided they will satisfy the one criterion that they will tell us what I or the company should do differently . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It must be said then of the attempt to re-read the history or literature of the past , that the only motivation for doing so can be that one is a Christian . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The immediate answer might well be that one is making a financial profit and the other a loss . |
| 6 | It may be that someone is more likely to commit an anti-social act when under stress . |
| 7 | A comforting aspect of wildlife watching in Scotland is that nothing is out to eat you . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 10 | My complaint about reviews so far is that everyone is reviewing the man Larkin and not the biography of him . |
| 11 | The problem with being an astrologer is that everyone is always pestering you to find out what 's to happen in the next few days . |
| 12 | The most noticeable feature of this session is that everybody is very anxious . |
| 13 | The main thing is that everything is going to be all right ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ A lover is illicit — the whole point of being married , it seems to me , is that everything is above board and clean ’ |
| 15 | A lover is illicit — the whole point of being married , it seems to me , is that everything is above board and clean . ’ |
| 16 | The difference , according to Food Giant , is that everything is a lot cheaper . |
| 17 | Its particular advantage is that everything is contained into a smaller central area . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The drawback , inevitably , is that everything is dependent upon the existence of a CAB in the area , its willingness to set up the scheme , and the co-operation of the local profession . |
| 20 | The trauma captured in splitting is that one is n't there ; the same trauma that castration comes to symbolise is that one is incomplete ; the trauma that can be lived over and over again in the endless by-ways of life 's failures and imperfections . |
| 21 | The trauma captured in splitting is that one is n't there ; the same trauma that castration comes to symbolise is that one is incomplete ; the trauma that can be lived over and over again in the endless by-ways of life 's failures and imperfections . |
| 22 | The significance of fantasizing about a new house or a new flat is that one is visualizing a change in one 's work environment . |
| 23 | What I shall want to argue is that their position is caught up in a circular argument : the only reason one could have for wanting to stand in this kind of relationship to biblical women is that one is Christian , but these writers never tackle the prior question as to whether feminism is in fact compatible with Christianity , such that one should want to stand in relationship to biblical women . |
| 24 | If one 's position is that one is a literary critic , there can be no reason to wrestle with the text that one may appropriate it . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | As far as their usefulness as a measure of performance the conclusion that should be reached is that none is superior as we can only measure performance by comparison . |
| 27 | It 's like somebody is watching it all for you … ’ |
| 28 | Provided that an object is conceived to be real , reactions to it are the same in kind whether one happens to be perceiving or imagining it ; and if in the latter case one reacts less strongly , that is because one is also less aware of it . |
| 29 | In most cases it is because someone is withholding information to increase their power . |
| 30 | But if Prince pleases , in music , in bed , it 's because nothing is ever done just to please . |