Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [coord] [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 | Ok , post and/or email me direct if you are or might be interested . |
| 3 | You are or may be pregnant |
| 4 | To think that you are and will be mine and I yours through the mercies of God when this transitory life is past and gone , for all eternity ! |
| 5 | We have highlighted the importance of recognising that the Constitution is subject to change in response to political conflicts , and so we have pointed to the need to study the Constitution ( and constitutional theory ) historically , politically and critically , with an eye to the tensions between things as they are and things as it is thought they are and should be . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In similar vein others ( Descartes , perhaps ) have held that they are or could be ‘ indubitable ’ . |
| 8 | I ca n't obviously give my Noble Friend an assurance that this will be done , but in due course er I would very much hope that it would be and when it is my Noble Friend will then be able to refer to that Act with total simplicity and find his way through it and with all the original Acts amended as they were and will be after this Act has been passed . |
| 9 | Tell Henry I hope he is good and very attentive to you and it is and will be his place to be your protector ! in my absence . |
| 10 | It will aim at a Christian vision of human life as it is and could be . |
| 11 | In 1767 one of these thinkers , Lemercier de la Rivière , in his L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques ( 1767 ) , presented such a ruler as not legislating in any positive sense but merely declaring and applying fundamental laws which were immanent in the nature of things , in the structure of the world as it is and must be . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Go easy on him ; one way or another he is or will be very distressed . ’ |