Example sentences of "unless [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't do that , because unless everyone is identical , the average will always be somewhere around the middle . |
| 2 | He argues that dreams can not be regarded as a neurotic symptom if everyone dreams — unless everyone is neurotic . |
| 3 | In either case , heading will remain unaltered unless thee is any further demand by the L/R needle to change . |
| 4 | Most skins can take a mild soap and water wash , unless yours is very dry and sensitive . |
| 5 | ‘ Unless someone 's done it already ? ’ |
| 6 | If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message . |
| 7 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |
| 8 | If your elderly parent has a family solicitor who knows her and her circumstances well , he will be the best person to give expert advice on the investment of her capital , but if she prefers to rely solely upon your advice you should encourage her to put safety first in this matter , for unless someone is very wealthy , and can afford to lose money occasionally , playing the stock market is a foolish and risky game in later life . |
| 9 | The strict breeding regulations which cover entry into the ADRK could not have been adhered to , because there was no way of checking the quality of the litter unless someone was appointed Bred Warden in the US , which is unlikely . |
| 10 | Tough to see the connection , unless someone was thinking of the body count in Hamlet . ’ |
| 11 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 12 | For instance , I can not actively engage with a book unless I am mentally free to give myself to it — if my mind is on other practical affairs while I am reading or if my reading competence is inadequate then I shall not be able to submit to the experience . |
| 13 | Now , unless I am mistaken , those partisans of anti-cruelty or pro-welfare who are gathered here also accept these same aspirations . |
| 14 | But unless I am much mistaken , the ingestion of strange materials really is proliferating . |
| 15 | In the same letter he refers to ‘ a passionate expression uttered incautiously in the Poem upon the Wye ’ ( see p. 88 ) and adds significantly : ‘ Unless I am greatly mistaken , there is nothing of this kind in The Excursion . ’ |
| 16 | I can not will the disappointment of my highest hope , in the expectation that the catastrophe will make a new man of me , because it is no catastrophe unless I am fully committed to the hope . |
| 17 | Joan 's meeting with her Edward will be , unless I am much mistaken , joy indeed ! |
| 18 | They know that , unless I am very fortunate , the only chance I 'll have to catch them is the moment in which they take the ransom , and they know equally well that you wo n't risk your daughter 's life by telling me where that 's going to happen . |
| 19 | George Dempster , the member of parliament for Dundee burghs , whose election at St. Andrews would ‘ certainly turn on a single vote unless I am able to provide a Councillors son in a Kirk ’ , urged nothing more than political consequences when pressing for the settlement of the St. Andrews clergyman , and many presentations were indeed political bribes . |
| 20 | It preceded the Beecham by some five years and , unless I am much mistaken , never appeared in this country at the time though it was included in an anthology RCA issued on LP ( 6/70 — nla ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I can not make it too abundantly clear that , under no circumstances whatsoever , will I support Mr Baldwin unless I know exactly what his policy is going to be , unless I have complete guarantees that such policy will be carried out if his party achieves office , and unless I am acquainted with the names of at least eight or ten of his most prominent colleagues in the next Ministry . |
| 22 | However , it had been my intention , and still will be my intention unless I am persuaded very strongly to the contrary , that when I close the enquiry , which I hope will be next Wednesday , I will have in my hands all of the representations , that is to say , both any additional re representations by objectors and the Councils ' replies , before I close the enquiry . |
| 23 | If , on the other hand , I point to an object in my immediate surroundings and say " this chair " , then , unless I am deliberately lying or trying to mislead , I indicate an implicit assumption on my part that there is something out there , something external to my act of pointing , which I take to be a chair . |
| 24 | My officers will conduct their own enquiry , and I will not hold this district to blame unless I am shown evidence of its involvement . ’ |
| 25 | Whereas this afternoon 's letter is , unless I am very much mistaken , from Nine Turning Mirrors , the Grand Vizier . |
| 26 | ‘ There is a card in here , unless I am very much mistaken , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ Unless I am very much mistaken , Barry , ’ said I , ‘ We are in serious difficulty here . ’ |
| 28 | Unless I am mistaken , both Belgium and the Netherlands are examples of small independent nations in Europe ! |
| 29 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 30 | However I would say that , on a strike out application , I would find it difficult to hold with certainty that the ex turpi causa defence , assuming it to be available , would exclude a claim to contribution under the Act of 1978 unless I were also satisfied , with the same degree of certainty , that there must be exemption from contribution under section 2(2) . |