Example sentences of "be [verb] [is] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work to be undertaken is an integration of existing literature , and the development of explanations of how people understand what they read . |
| 2 | Down on the ground the first thing to be heard is a distant squeal , and a sharp-sighted man might just discern a black dot like a bird high in the sky . |
| 3 | The court said : " If the right to be heard is a real right which is worth anything , it must carry with it a right in the accused man to know the case which is made against him . |
| 4 | Totally to oust the court 's supervisory jurisdiction in a field where ex hypothesi the citizen can have no right to be consulted is a draconian and dangerous step indeed . |
| 5 | However , if a ‘ crash ’ occurs the worst that can be expected is a rebuke from the instructor . |
| 6 | The way in which royal messengers allegedly searched far and wide for a suitable bride ignores the likelihood that the union with Emma was motivated purely by political considerations , while the statement that they sent other sons to Normandy to be educated is a misleading reference to the exile of Emma 's offspring by Æthelred . |
| 7 | The knowledge that confidence will be respected is an important feature of effective nurse/patient communication , and is incorporated in professional codes of practice in a number of countries . |
| 8 | The identification of these needs and the allowance that should be made is a normative issue , but we may want to deduct items from the definition of income ( e.g. , for the expenses associated with illness or disability ) or to calculate income per equivalent person ( e.g. , allowing for differing family size or age ) . |
| 9 | The assessment to be made is an objective one . |
| 10 | The fact that the Local Plan has yet to be adopted is an irrelevancy . |
| 11 | One of the new technologies that will be evaluated is a catalytic extraction process developed by Molten Metal Technology , US . |
| 12 | The manner in which the point of law is to be decided is a matter for agreement between the parties and the expert . |
| 13 | Once a book has been selected then all that needs to be done is a simple form to be filled in and the library staff will fetch it for you or at least show you where to look . |
| 14 | The picture of studying law as a wearisome task in which lots of dull rules and regulations have to be memorised is a distorted one . |
| 15 | The number of words to be searched is an heuristic decided upon by the user . |
| 16 | As has been seen , the only ground on which a right in the strong sense can be defeated is an even weightier competing right advanced by another individual . |
| 17 | The example to be used is a variation of the example given in paragraph ( 5.1 c ) and Figure 8.2 ( a promotional Mix Model ) above . |
| 18 | Consideration of the key factors involved and judicious selection of the techniques to be used is a pre-requisite for cost effective improvement . |
| 19 | Then er even one percent of nuclear weaponry that er could be used is a danger to world congregation and I fear very much er that unless there is some kind of a proper cast iron guarantee er with the successor to the Soviet Union er there 's going to be much er trouble especially if er there is an ethnic violence er erupting on the borders and again er Boris Yeltsin has said that er , er he is going to want to control er the position on the borders , well he may not get the agreement that he seeks , er one hopes that he will , but he , he may not . |
| 20 | Ultimately , however , what may be needed is a set of proper procedural guides and guarantees which would ensure that whatever the legal rules may be , they are observed in practice 66 |
| 21 | But , for many people all that will ever be needed is a program which provides word processing with the capability to get decent quality print out of a page printer . |
| 22 | All that may be needed is a classification of machines and a measurement of time spent on each machine by each product . |
| 23 | What seems to be needed is an approach which recognizes the necessary contrivance of pedagogy and seeks to guide learners through graded negotiating tasks . |
| 24 | This House was asserting that the mere existence of a mistake of law made at some earlier stage does not vitiate the actual decision made : what must be shown is a relevant error of law , i.e. , an error in the actual making of the decision which affected the decision itself . |
| 25 | An Intel Corp observer says the company is really competing against system makers IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc , and maybe MIPS Technologies Inc : his point is that Intel is bound to a policy of moving more and more of the system onto its chips until all the hardware vendor will be adding is a couple of leads ; he also says Intel is very conscious of the potentials of the computer and communications tie-up and is dreaming of a worldwide network data repository under its thumb ; strategic alliances came up and so did the name AT&T Co , and the words ‘ information utility ’ . |
| 26 | That they can now be reprinted is a confirmation of his final optimism when he wrote : ‘ They murder our love — and it lives . |
| 27 | At the output-system level , we wish to distinguish between a system for producing spoken output and a system for producing printed output ( and also a system for producing drawn output , not relevant when what is to be produced is a word ) . |
| 28 | Hilary Robarts said : ‘ I notice that you assume the sufferer to be helped is a man . |
| 29 | What must ultimately be recognised is a more profound change that has overcome the cultural sphere , namely the broad and far-reaching symptoms of the ‘ postmodern ’ in culture . |
| 30 | Certainly , a consideration of what wealth is to be used for and how it is to be redistributed is an essential ingredient of Bailey 's requirements ( readers may be interested to contrast Flew 's strictures on the notion that wealth is entirely a collective property , and that its distribution is therefore a matter for collective decision-taking ) . |