Example sentences of "be [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say , let pastels stand on their own merits , let them be drawing or colouring sticks , or crayons . |
| 2 | There are a limited number of exceptions that permit the bid to be withdrawn or declared void . |
| 3 | The play may shock audiences ; it may have to be withdrawn or rewritten . |
| 4 | It operated also with regard to lands and rights that had once been given to God or the saints : the gift could never be withdrawn or diminished without sin . |
| 5 | An important feature is that once bonuses are given , they can not later be withdrawn or put at risk due to some speculative investment . |
| 6 | In addition , they control resources which can be withdrawn or redeployed at their discretion , and are of vital importance for workers ' livelihood and the revenue base of state expenditure . |
| 7 | It was suggested that 400 passenger services be withdrawn or modified and 2,000 stations and 5,000 route miles closed to passenger traffic . |
| 8 | In addition , both unemployment benefit and income support , under certain circumstances , can be withdrawn or suspended if claimants fail to comply with the range of new procedures aimed at policing their behaviour ; for instance , if they fail to attend counselling or Restart ( introduced in 1986 ) interviews with Employment Service Officers or turn down ‘ positive offers ’ of help from the Restart menu , such as employment or a training programme . |
| 9 | Where the court is satisfied that the petitioning creditor does not intend to prosecute his petition , either diligently or at all , by asking for it to be withdrawn or adjourned , it can , on the application of any other creditor who has given notice of his intention to appear , give the carriage of the petition to that other creditor ( who need not be owed £750 or more ) ( r 6.31 ) . |
| 10 | The acquirer will want to be sure that grants will not be withdrawn or have to be repaid . |
| 11 | In a statement issued on May 14 the NPA warned that the 40,000 US military personnel currently stationed in the Philippines should be withdrawn or they would " suffer the agony of attrition . " |
| 12 | With the best will in the world many cases have to be withdrawn or discontinued each year . |
| 13 | An appeal can not be withdrawn or the grounds amended without the leave of the court . |
| 14 | It 's whether they will be withdrawn or not . |
| 15 | At the same time this was an occasion for using the telephone , not cables , teletexes or letters which could be misdirected or might end up lying on the desks of the wrong people . |
| 16 | Under the previous law , the offence was committed where the onlooker believed that violence was intended to be provoked or ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . ’ |
| 17 | Presumably your clothes will need to be altered or some new ones purchased . |
| 18 | Your intruder alarm must not be altered or replaced without our prior written agreement . |
| 19 | And recent research has dramatically shown that one way for them to make the break is through the activation of cellular oncogenes — genes that are more or less inactive in normal cells hut seem to be altered or activated in tumour cells ( New Scientist , vol 96 , p418 . |
| 20 | When any diagram becomes inaccurate it must be altered or thrown away . |
| 21 | Whether attitudes towards BSL can be altered or not , those who come into work with deaf people will have to approach the task of learning BSL and it may be that the weight of sign learning must rely on motivation to the task and the cognitive and age factors . |
| 22 | It may be that there is a special rule for reservation of title clauses : this is examined below ( Chapter 10 ) but subject to that possible exception , once a contract has been made , its terms can only be altered or supplemented by a variation , and such variation will only be effective if it is supported by consideration . |
| 23 | In these cases there is a quite typical urethritis , even though there is no question of the urethra being the primary site of infection , and no organisms can be recognized or cultured from this site . |
| 24 | She herself had moved on swiftly , anxious not to be recognized or to seem a spy . |
| 25 | She was quite uncritical of the sad , grand dress ; she understood only the pale , still doubtful , beauty , so wrong for its present period , so touching in its failure to be recognized or to please . |
| 26 | Laws which encourage such violations could be amended or repealed . |
| 27 | The provision … may be amended or revoked … by the parties to the treaty without the consent of the State entitled to the right … , unless — ( a ) the parties to the treaty had entered into a specific agreement with the latter with regard to the creation of the right ; or ( b ) a contrary intention appears from the terms of the treaty , the circumstances of its conclusion or the statements of the parties . |
| 28 | Any common-law rule established by judicial precedent may be amended or removed by a statute passed by Parliament . |
| 29 | The court may order the whole or part of any pleading to be amended or struck out on the ground that ( a ) it discloses no reasonable cause of action or defence , or ( b ) it is scandalous , frivolous or vexatious , or ( c ) it may prejudice , embarrass or delay the fair trial , or ( d ) it is otherwise an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 30 | In recognising that fact , as well as the reality that this package can not be amended or the entire community ratification process goes back into the melting pot , it was the pressure point likely to offer the greatest temptation to the Tory anti-Maastricht brigade . |