Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [be] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auden was rightly suspicious of his own rhetoric ; but to say that the line We must love one another or die is untrue because we die anyway ( or because those who do not love do not instantly expire ) is to take a narrow or forgetful view . |
| 2 | Car , bus and train passengers have to make generous allowances for traffic being heavy or bus/train being late or cancelled . |
| 3 | It is firmly established , and when there is a tendency to ‘ darkening ’ of initial [ l ] , the conditions that apply are linguistic and not social : relatively ‘ dark ’ [ l ] occurs mainly before relatively retracted vowels . |
| 4 | All things that exist are particular and singular . |
| 5 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 6 | Authorities that have been rate-capped and lost grant have had to cut services or put off planned improvements . |
| 7 | The evidence from the few areas that have been bored or surveyed geophysically supports this view , but other evidence does not fit so well . |
| 8 | By constructing a portfolio of efficiently priced assets , the investor can create opportunities for profitable arbitrage if there are assets or portfolios that have been underpriced or overpriced . |
| 9 | Wool-sucking seems to be most common among young cats that have been orphaned or have for some other reason been deprived of the maternal nipple too soon . |
| 10 | The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze . |
| 11 | And do be careful if you decide to open up the box yourself to have a rummage around . |
| 12 | It might be possible for people in such circumstances ( perhaps when redundancies have been notified some weeks in advance ) to be supported and perhaps taught techniques to cope with the anxiety and avoid being overpessimistic or ‘ catastrophising ’ ( see next section ) . |