Example sentences of "be [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , there are plenty that do . |
| 2 | Chris said it might have been somebody that knew you like , was banging on the door . |
| 3 | Er , there may be one there may have been one that failed , I 'm not sure but they probably did a resit and got through in September . |
| 4 | In many ways , the issue of knowledge acquisition has been one that has separated the practicable representations of natural language semantics from those that can only remain as theories in textbooks . |
| 5 | So , there are these sort of centres all over the country , er but this is the first time that there has been one that has arts and science under the same room . |
| 6 | The absence of evidence of a distinctive layout of fields before that time has led to the suggestion that Romano-British fields continued to be used in the Saxon period and that open fields may have been something that developed gradually through the Anglo-Saxon period as a whole ( Taylor and Fowler 1978 ) . |
| 7 | er Apollo Leisure had decided that they would like to have arts and science under the same roof , er the arts has been something that 's considered an acceptable cultural pastime , and people will go out at weekends , take the family and will do something that , they would look at an exhibition , er or they would go to the theatre , whereas in science , there is n't really anything that you can do as a social or cultural pastime . |
| 8 | Has that been something that 's been on the government 's mind , the backhanded benefit of higher prices ? |
| 9 | THE benefits of car leasing are something that have traditionally been considered the preserve of the business sector . |
| 10 | But there are a number of crime novels that make use of the immediate past to excellent effect ( Gladys Mitchell 's Late , Late in the Evening is one ) , and if the root causes of today 's events are something that set your imagination bubbling then perhaps this is the sort of book you would be best to write . |
| 11 | Indeed I think that the the the present secretary of state for whom I have great respect and regard , I think he would be very well advised to think again , because I think that the temporary derision that he would meet in the House of Commons would be nothing as compared with the the er the wounding that he will sustain later if and when things go wrong with these proposals . |
| 12 | Perhaps identify trainees but it might be something that thinks about when we 're actually designing training yeah ? |
| 13 | So , while you may well have some trait or peculiarity about her that will give her a mark of distinction , this must be something that does not disqualify her from maximum general sympathy . |
| 14 | It must be something that happens to men once they 've served on the Western Front . ’ |
| 15 | So anxiety would be , you see , would be something that points out what I 'm calling this realistic view of human nature . |
| 16 | Thus what may at first sight appear to be something that facilitates competition can actually be a form of legal collusion . |
| 17 | Previously they had been assumed to be something that belonged to the Royal College of Art , the Slade School , the Royal Ballet School , and so on . |
| 18 | In order that is for there to be some change , whether er change er like having a page torn out or a change like moving from one location to another , there also has to be something that stays the same , mainly the subject of change . |
| 19 | unconscious there might be something that goes out some breath |
| 20 | Foster , whose own career started at the tender age of 3 , discovered 9-year-old Adam in a New York classroom : ‘ It was him wanting to be something that drew me , ’ she says . |
| 21 | Whether you have chosen card or material as a backing for your mount it must be something that blends well with both the frame and the mount , not to mention the flowers . |
| 22 | Erm er I mean er technically it should be something that 's done centrally . |
| 23 | It has to be something that makes your mouth drop open . ’ |
| 24 | This might be something that has a legitimate place in the original complex equation — it might be peace education , anti-racism or teachers ' rights — but which is inflated to fill the whole screen . |
| 25 | If seeing the object is then thought of , as required by Descartes 's concept of mind , as the mind being affected by it , that is , of there being an impression not only on the retina but also on the mind , then the obvious candidate for the impression on the mind will be something that corresponds to the image on the retina . |
| 26 | It was important for this connection that the model of biological evolution used should be one that saw change as the cumulative product of the actions of individual organisms over many generations . |
| 27 | Very different style , and you 've got to find your own style because it 's got to be one that suits you . |
| 28 | The existence of a public sector that did not have significant intended distributional consequences would be one that involves universal marginal benefit taxation for each good or service provided in the public sector . |
| 29 | While we do not yet know what cues the animals might use , we can exploit the likelihood that , when other qualities such as physical well-being are equal , an optimal choice of mate is likely to be one that minimizes the costs of both inbreeding and outbreeding ( Bateson , 1980 , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | The most appropriate technology for many people will be one that helps a country to organise a postal system so that stamps are available , to bring radio within everyone 's reach and that holds out the possibility of early telephone links . |