Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] be [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Or that there 'll be wine in heaven ?
2 My hon. Friend the Member for Taunton talked about the difficulties in the south-west and whether Taunton should become the capital or whether it should be Bristol , Plymouth or Exeter .
3 When we say that I do n't mean whether it 's a four or three bedroom house , I mean the sort of location it would be in , whether it would be a middle of a terrace or a middle of a string of houses , on the corner of a street or whether it would be on its own in the country somewhere or whether the back garden would back on to some playing fields or er the railway line or whether there 'd be houses at the back .
4 The Financial Times on Oct. 26 reported a senior US official as saying , however , that the study would be purely conceptual and would not assess numbers of nuclear weapons or whether there should be disarmament negotiations .
5 They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be .
6 They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be .
7 The canonical form obtained by a similar transformation of a matrix having equal eigenvalues , when reduced to its simplest form , has the eigenvalues in the principal diagonal , with equal eigenvalues in groups ; elsewhere the matrix is null except that there may be units in the superdiagonal .
8 Nothing is more certain than that there will be injuries and that one or two will lose some form before April , but there 's such a depth in the Highbury squad that this wo n't be a problem .
9 We have to make sure in this trade union and labour movement that because there will be struggles ahead , this has to be one that is foremost in our minds .
10 The translucent message from the corridors of power , in Europe and in Whitehall , is that a single currency will be established , and that we shall be part of it .
11 I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’
12 He remembered that he was being extremely clever and extraordinarily subtle about all of this , and that it would be subtlety that would win this war .
13 It was inevitable that the Earl should be Lord Lieutenant of the County , and that he should be President of the Lancashire Unionists .
14 The Royal Commission did , however , recognise that custody and charge would not necessarily coincide , and that there might be intervals of time whilst the suspect was under arrest but not yet charged , and whilst he was on bail after being charged ; and the recommendation was made that the prohibition of questioning should also apply to these periods .
15 There is the fact that the very rocks on which we live — no matter where — may have originated through volcanism ; that much of the gold and many of the other economic minerals that we use every day are linked with volcanic activity ; that most of the world 's best coffee and tea come from volcanic areas , and that there may be areas on the Moon and Mars which are analogous to terrestrial continents and oceans .
16 Lautro accepts that some of the facts were mistaken and that there may be qualifications to some of the allegations .
17 We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months .
18 They believe that the link between a permissive attitude towards corporal punishment and child abuse is a distinct possibility and that there should be laws to forbid any adult from striking any child , including their own .
19 In the same issue , it is reported that Sir Anthony Hidden 's investigation into the Clapham Junction rail crash criticises British Rail for not preventing ‘ commercial considerations of a business-led railway from compromising safety , ’ and asserts that excessive overtime should be ended , and that there should be curbs on overcrowding in trains .
20 The agreement must specify that this 20 per cent should be on money actually received by the artist , not on items such as bad debts , and that there should be allowances for exactly what the commission is chargeable on in certain circumstances .
21 A few says later the Shah sought assurances from the US Embassy that he was still welcome in the United States cabled Rabat to say , " we assured the Shah publicly as well as in private messages that he would be welcome in the US should he choose to go there , and that there should be bo doubt whatsoever as to our willingness to receive ( him ) and provide him with appropriate protection " .
22 It means that there must be constant vigilance by the authorities ; it means that there must be methods of responding swiftly to alarm bells that may be rung either by staff or by children and that there must be alarm bells that can , in real life , be rung .
23 They are also worried that road damage caused by existing lorry movements will be made worse , and that there will be problems of noise and dust .
24 It is clear from earlier research that each school has to work through , to an extent , what is right for the particular people involved and that there will be ups and down .
25 There is a substantial belief in ‘ scientific management ’ in enterprises and although there may be modifications of this basic notion it remains remarkably robust .
26 Dust of these heavy metal compounds can form toxic and/or carcinogenic substances , White warns , and while there may be ways in which the they can be combusted safely , substantially more study will have to be carried out .
27 One question related to statutory bodies , and whether there should be age limits on appointment and retirement .
28 The Law Commission thought that this would exclude products " designed and normally bought for commercial use " , but that there might be borderline cases .
29 Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed , but that there might be equality .
30 ‘ I challenge him to deny that John Major promised , not only no tax increases , but that there would be tax cuts year on year .
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