Example sentences of "[conj] be [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provisions that make this £150 " discrepancy " potentially chargeable are : ( i ) s 19 TA 1988 , the Schedule E income tax charging provision ; and ( ii ) s 162 TA 1988 , which can apply the " notional loan " provisions of s160 to a situation where Newco acquires shares in Target and persons " connected " with Newco , namely management , are or have been employed by Target and/or are about to be employed by Newco , and the Target shares are acquired at an under-value in pursuance of a right or opportunity available by reason of management 's employment . |
| 2 | We shall make the widening of the Community a priority , and shall advocate speedy admission for Austria , Sweden , Finland and Cyprus , whose membership applications have been or are about to be lodged . |
| 3 | While most supermarket chains in Europe have been ( or are about to be ) battered by recession , discounters like Germany 's Aldi and Denmark 's Netto are flourishing . |
| 4 | And all the corridors , stairways , and walls in other areas , have either been re-painted or are about to be . |
| 5 | The tenant should consider its deletion , particularly where the premises form part of a shopping centre and the other units have already been constructed or are about to be so . |
| 6 | Didsbury , St Osyth 's , Worcester and others which had previously had discussions with the CNAA were either already back in discussion , or were soon to be so . |
| 7 | This only serves to emphasise the desirability of stating expressly whether time is or is not to be of the essence . |
| 8 | ‘ Whether the child has arrived or is yet to be born is unclear . |
| 9 | If ever there was any documentation relating to this episode , none appears to have survived or is yet to be unearthed . |
| 10 | Third-person pronouns are frequently used to refer back ( and occasionally forward ) to an entity which has already been introduced ( or is about to be introduced ) into the discourse . |
| 11 | He turned to his sons demanding to know whether there was or was not to be a baptism party that night , and whether or not I would be the only white present . |
| 12 | The 1990 Report discusses a number of consequential matters that are yet to be decided , including assistance for the deaf ; the preservation of , access to , and use of the television archives ; and the provision of a television feed to Members ' rooms . |
| 13 | For the Christian , it is natural that God should become a person at the Incarnation rather than a dog or a stone , not necessarily because persons are somehow more technically advanced on a scale of being , but because they display the qualities that are most to be valued . |
| 14 | Its purpose is to examine in detail the various experimental procedures that have been said to demonstrate acquired distinctiveness and to determine which generate reliable effects that are not to be explained away in other terms . |
| 15 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 16 | At this point we go on to plant noumenal gardens that are not to be contemplated or comprehended by the understanding or conveyed in words . |
| 17 | Public collections of oriental carpets can be found in a number of galleries and museums throughout the Western world ; in addition to those already mentioned , the Metropolitan Museum or Art , New York , the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Poldi Pezzoli Museum , Milan , have carpets that are not to be missed . |
| 18 | Talking principally about the adult education market and the private language schools where ‘ business ’ English is much in demand , he says : ‘ There are lots of gaps that are there to be filled . ’ |
| 19 | The stringings of some of the instruments that the authors include in the category of ‘ fairly full evidence ’ seem fragmentary and ambiguous because the majority of strings that are there to be measured are considered to be replacements of non-original diameters . |
| 20 | There are certain problems that must be solved ( childcare is number one ) , certain inequalities , both in the workplace and home , that are still to be ironed out , but in your personal lives you know precisely where you are going . |
| 21 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 22 | Nowadays , most excavations are conducted on sites that are about to be destroyed , and so when the excavation is finished , the site is left to its fate . |
| 23 | There is no point in having to wait weeks for the concrete scaffolders , nor is there any point in having the site cluttered with pipes that are only to be needed later . |
| 24 | Then capping it all is a ceiling of absolute if intricate formality , a prelude and preparation to the first floor rooms that were never to be worked . |
| 25 | ‘ My good fortune lay in working with great men who were patient with me and taught me good habits that were never to be forgotten . |
| 26 | He is more comfortable at knocking others off perches than being there to be knocked off himself . |
| 27 | In fact , Kaprun and its neighbour Zell am See have everything that you could need to enjoy a perfect holiday in some of the most beautiful alpine scenery there is , including some excellent bars and restaurants for relaxing evenings and charming coffee houses for afternoon coffee and cake ; an experience that is not to be missed ! |
| 28 | Project members are normally overseen by a Steering Committee , representing relevant expertise that is not to be looked for within the institution itself . |
| 29 | This can be avoided by asking only for condemnations of the path that is not to be taken . |
| 30 | If it is a boiler that is also to be used for central heating , the best position will probably be in the kitchen on an outside wall . |