Example sentences of "[pron] be or [vb mod] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | My life lacked the clarity , form and order of simple fiction , and I had no idea who , where or what I was or should be . |
| 2 | ( c ) Benefits The individual receives or is entitled to receive , at any time , any benefit provided or to be provided out of that income or out of monies which are or will be available for the purpose by reason of the effect or successive effects of the associated operations on that income and on any assets which directly or indirectly represent that income . |
| 3 | Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received . |
| 4 | Then , by an extraordinary fortune , the three Cambridge chairs of divinity which were or could be in his field of study fell vacant within three years . |
| 5 | Failure to clear up a problem which is or may be legal will usually be fatal , unless the facts admit of only one answer , because it will mean that the jury may not have understood their legal duty . |
| 6 | ( b ) There is no fact or matter concerning the proposed business or affairs of the Company nor any fact or matter relating to the financial forecasts which is or may be material for disclosure to any intending subscriber for shares in the Company which has not been disclosed to the Investors and any such fact or matter arising prior to Completion of this agreement will forthwith be disclosed to the Investors . |
| 7 | According to the Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , in his Mais Lecture in june 1984 : ‘ It is the conquest of inflation , not the pursuit of growth and employment , which is or should be the objective of macro-economic policy . ’ |
| 8 | In Oscar Chess Ltd v Williams [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 370 , Denning LJ suggested that a binding promise might be inferred from the circumstances if the seller stated a fact which was or should be within his own knowledge , and of which the buyer was ignorant , intending that the buyer should act upon it , and with the result that the buyer did act upon it . |
| 9 | who are or might be parties to the negotiation ; |
| 10 | Ok , post and/or email me direct if you are or might be interested . |
| 11 | You are or may be pregnant |
| 12 | Under section 25 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 , the High Court has power to grant interim relief where proceedings have been or are to be commenced in another Contracting State to the Brussels Convention or in another part of the United Kingdom , or where there are or will be any other proceedings within the scope of the 1968 Convention even if that Convention does not directly apply . |
| 13 | there are or will be proceedings whose subject-matter is within the scope of the 1968 Convention as determined by Article 1 ( whether or not the Convention has effect in relation to the proceedings ) . |
| 14 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 15 | Although such inferences are not always logically entirely unimpeachable , given the above premisses , the pluralist case becomes difficult to defend and on balance the only reasonable option seems to be Spinoza 's own unitarist alternative , viz. that there is only one substance which is in fact identical with the whole of reality , and that the only plurality there is or can be is the plurality of " attributes and modifications " . |
| 16 | Few librarians would agree that censorship has anything to do with book selection , and indeed as we shall see they are or should be diametrically opposite operations with entirely different functions . |
| 17 | In similar vein others ( Descartes , perhaps ) have held that they are or could be ‘ indubitable ’ . |
| 18 | News judgements contain within them an implicit understanding of the nature of our society , where power lies and how it is or should be exercised . |
| 19 | A child is not to be taken as having a learning difficulty solely because the language ( or form of the language ) in which he is or will be taught is different from a language ( or from of language ) which has at any time been spoken in the house . |
| 20 | Go easy on him ; one way or another he is or will be very distressed . ’ |
| 21 | Unfortunately , although the law may be the final arbiter and may rule on what is or may be obscene and indecent , in general terms it does not judge on every item published or made available for sale , since there is normally no censorship of obscene or indecent matter prior to publication in the UK . |
| 22 | No one , for example , supposes that the knowledge that belongs to a good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book . |
| 23 | Obviously , what is or may be of importance to an employer 's business is a question of fact ; and it was no doubt significant in Swain that S was the general manager , the wrongful employee was the managing director , his conduct was dishonest and it could have had a material effect on the defendant 's business ( labelling meat as " Empire Products " when it was not ) . |
| 24 | What is or can be as superlatively silly or ruinous to the nerves as that silly girl , snivelling and laughing by turns over a ‘ love story ’ ? |
| 25 | First , there has been extensive discussion as to what is or should be meant by " marginal cost " . |
| 26 | It is not , er this evidence does not go to a matter of law er er and the duty but it matter of practice and my Lord what this case is dealing with is about what if , what is or should be the practice of a solicitors engaged in commercial conveyancing as to the advice that is given to clients and er my Lord the er commercial conveyancing is obviously a matter which particularly concerns . |
| 27 | In the event , of course , nothing was or could be done . |