Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is no qualifying interest in possession s48(4) ( b ) states that if it can be shown that all known persons for whose benefit the settled property or income from it has been or might be applied or who are or might become beneficially entitled to an interest in possession are persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom the gilt relief will be applicable . |
| 2 | Moreover , good housekeeping and husbandry practices in respect of storing , transporting and handling materials which are or may become odorous must not be overlooked in any type of trade or industry , whether or not additional odour abatement methods are required . |
| 3 | All teachers are or should take responsibility for guidance work . |
| 4 | Britain would either be overwhelmed as France had been or would seek a compromise with Hitler . |
| 5 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 6 | A a as I say er i it takes a bit of getting used to when you 're just making a meal for yourself , you know what I mean you 're you 're that used to carry 'em about and picking after 'em and |
| 7 | I 'm doubly glad therefore to , to welcome their appearance and I know how difficult it has been and would like to praise all concerned for the intense nature of the negotiations which , which have gone on . |
| 8 | To have devised the material ‘ in house ’ using DES and HMI would have been and would have been seen to be unhealthily parochial ; to have used the National Curriculum Council would have involved too great a delay . |
| 9 | Magnus Magnusson , the SNH chairman , said local government had been and must continue to be an important partner of the agency . |
| 10 | Without records management skills and principles it has been and could continue to be the former . |
| 11 | ‘ Trading conditions have been and will remain tough for the immediate future until global recessionary pressures abate . ’ |
| 12 | Probably the major contribution has been and will continue to be to encourage a more realistic and informed approach to social problems and matters of social policy . |
| 13 | I wanted to see something of those countries which were so much part of what Europe has been and will become , and which were yet so unknown . |
| 14 | Does the Secretary of State agree that one of the most successful recipients of inward investment has been and can continue to be the financial services sector ? |
| 15 | You may not yourself be in the habit of taking this small precaution to avoid knocking at some highly inappropriate moment , but I always have been and can vouch that it is common practice amongst many professionals . |
| 16 | Come out wherever you are and let's get it over with " , but he knew better than that . |
| 17 | The off-worlders are all required to be there so that the Vadinamians can know where they are and can watch them . |
| 18 | We are pensioners with no help from Income Support so I want to know why we should pay for these people , a lot of them are much better off than we are and can afford to smoke and drink . |
| 19 | Because of the humidity , below freezing temperatures feel colder than they are and can have the harmful effect of biting deep into the vine and this can be fatal if the sap has started to rise . |
| 20 | ‘ We are and will remain one nation . |
| 21 | ‘ We are and will remain the only party capable of offering an alternative government , ’ said Mr Kinnock . |
| 22 | Thus the imperatives for Europe are and will remain , to lower oil dependence , to achieve a better balanced diversity of supplies , to make the most of indigenous supplies where they are economical and to continue the drive to greater energy efficiency . |
| 23 | The medieval warrior was what some today would call a drone : however necessary his protection might be or might seem to his peasant tenants and neighbours , and however much the enterprise of individual warriors may have fertilized the economy , he was not personally engaged in making a livelihood for himself and his family . |
| 24 | I think you have to evolve , develop quite a lot of detective sense , to meet people , to imagine where could further letters be that would help me , and you have to charm your way virtually into those houses , and persuade the people erm to let you look at Grandfather 's letters in the trunk in the attic . |
| 25 | Could be that let's have a look at the first year , the first year , I just want to survive . |
| 26 | May be that will identify things for you . |
| 27 | ‘ I do not know what the final outcome will be and would stress that there is no obvious solution at this point , but at least we now have adequate time to look at all the alternatives . ’ |
| 28 | We appreciate what a stumbling block this can be and will lend you 100% as a first time buyer . |
| 29 | Conscious manipulation of tears is very rare , although most women acknowledged how powerful tears can be and could remember the odd occasion on which they had been used as a weapon when all else failed . |
| 30 | If Miss T. was a baptised and practising member of the Jehovah 's Witnesses she would be likely to refuse a blood transfusion or other treatment involving the giving of blood whatever the consequences might be but would accept substitutes if available . |