Example sentences of "[verb] be [conj] [indef pn] be " in BNC.

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1 My own personal rule for very many years has been that anybody is free to criticize me , to criticize the company , to question or argue against anything that we are trying to do — provided they will satisfy the one criterion that they will tell us what I or the company should do differently .
2 It hardly matters whether there 's a ghost there to be seen or not — what matters is whether someone is convinced he saw it .
3 All I can remember was that everything was uncomfortable , especially getting up and going to bed .
4 As far as their usefulness as a measure of performance the conclusion that should be reached is that none is superior as we can only measure performance by comparison .
5 The trauma captured in splitting is that one is n't there ; the same trauma that castration comes to symbolise is that one is incomplete ; the trauma that can be lived over and over again in the endless by-ways of life 's failures and imperfections .
6 The trauma captured in splitting is that one is n't there ; the same trauma that castration comes to symbolise is that one is incomplete ; the trauma that can be lived over and over again in the endless by-ways of life 's failures and imperfections .
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