Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wishes can of course be fulfilled or remain unfulfilled and things may or may not be as people with certain attitudes would like , but it would be thoroughly misleading to speak of truth or falsehood here . |
| 2 | It could ( in theory at least ) have recommended a return to the eighteenth century position , illustrated by the Lord Chief Justice when he expressed hope that ‘ the worst of the offending sections ’ in Acts of Parliament be repealed or amended . |
| 3 | Clearly many of you are anxious lest the essential qualities of Medau be jeopardised or lost and on that particular point I would like to give reassurance . |
| 4 | The preceding features required that certain traditional statements in the text of the ocean bill of lading be modified or replaced . |
| 5 | Under Bloch 's type of analysis , the statement that Hemingway uses " short sentences amounts to a claim that the average length of a Hemingway sentence is shorter ( to a significant extent ) than the average length of an English sentence : something which can in principle be verified or falsified . |