Example sentences of "be [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances are that home buyers at Meggetland View in Edinburgh will be rugby fans . |
| 2 | Additional hurdles are that company filing requirements are not always complied with and powers to enforce such requirements do not always exist in national law . |
| 3 | Alternative views of the matter are that competition policy should be guided by some broader notion of the public interest , including perhaps non-economic social objectives , or that competition , per se , should be promoted . |
| 4 | The advantages are that manufacturing costs ( and final retail prices ) are kept down marginally , and the batteries are less likely to be affected by damp . |
| 5 | The weaknesses of this approach are that work absenteeism is under-reported in professional occupations , different jobs can be performed with different degrees of ill-health , attitudes to work can sometimes override states of ill-health , particularly of the minor type , and above all , a large proportion of the population is not in the labour force , so their illness goes totally unrecorded . |
| 6 | Latest estimates are that sea levels could rise by about 20 cm by 2030 and by 65 cm by the end of the 21st century . |
| 7 | Estimates are that sea levels could rise by as much as 1.65m ( 4½feet ) by the middle of the next century . |
| 8 | Other possible explanations are that interferon alfa is directly toxic to hepatocytes and that it induces autoimmune chronic active hepatitis . |
| 9 | Some of their aims are that learning methods should be non-directive , interactive , and based on clinical cases and that teaching should foster the ability to evaluate critically published data on different treatments and new drugs . |
| 10 | His other criticisms are that citation counts are unable to distinguish quality among methodological contributions . |
| 11 | Despite everything that is working in OPEC 's favour , odds still are that oil prices will weaken later this year . |
| 12 | ‘ My theory has always been that working practices and the way that careers are structured are not really compatible with having a family as well . |
| 13 | A reasonable defence might have been that field sports were preferable to roaming the docks but , instead , the chief rabbi was assured that the boys needed the exercise . |
| 14 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 15 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 16 | A significant milestone has been that product revenues for the AViiON line finally surpassed those of the proprietary Eclipse MV products . |
| 17 | Labour 's traditional view had been that interest rates should be kept down and investment restricted to feasible levels , not by monetary policy , but by quantitative credit controls and physical materials controls . |
| 18 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 19 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 20 | Since its construction almost thirty years before there had been little capital investment . |
| 21 | Amidst such massive coverage there has been little television interest in what ordinary people get out of sport . |
| 22 | and a cable tidy , that sounds quite good , these are half price things for ten days only There 's a remote control colour television for one thirty nine , ninety nine , save fifty pounds they 've got the dear tapes here look , erm six and a half hours video tapes , recommended price seven ninety nine can get for three ninety nine and there 's another one here three pack , twelve hours video tape for six ninety nine must end Saturday November the twenty ninth , oh perhaps I 'll buy you one of those , oh I have bought you a birthday present have n't I ? |
| 23 | Although there are few Sussex equivalents to the great wool churches elsewhere , the wealthier endowed chantries in a number of churches for saying masses for the dead , or funded the numerous leper hospitals and almshouses around the towns . |
| 24 | Since the hypocrite ( it is usually a he : there are few women hypocrites in Elizabethan drama , which may be a comfort to the feminists ) tells us the truth , we are able to judge the extent of his lies , his success in duping others . |
| 25 | It also tends to reduce the scope for independent software firms : there are few software houses not working for the computer manufacturers . |
| 26 | There are few film directors who can resist a good car chase . |
| 27 | There are few aquarium fish which are so uniformly peaceful and easily-maintained as the rasboras . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've done 35 Cowes Weeks and nine Fastnets , ’ said Simms , ‘ There are few yachting challenges left to me except , say , the America Cup . ’ |
| 29 | This has not removed the danger of war but it has certainly perverted the concept of defence — there are few defence systems which are not actually war machines . |
| 30 | We are not used to such notions and there are few world religions that still offer ‘ sacrifices ’ . |