Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adv] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should be slightly acid or neutral , with a pH of 6.5–7.0 . |
| 2 | Transfer category should be either ASSESSMENTS or NOASSESSMENTS . |
| 3 | The BBC 's Regional Role : English regional TV should be exclusively news and current affairs . |
| 4 | There are no special requirements in relation to the formation of a multi-national partnership — save that all the partners must be either solicitors or RFLs and there must be at least one of each to make it an MNP . |
| 5 | Being-for-itself must be wholly body and it must be wholly consciousness ; it can not be united with a body . |
| 6 | I think it must be all Sarahs or what else or something , all Sarahs are registered as very intelligent |
| 7 | When they come to consider the plaintiff 's damages , it must be highly material that they then may say to themselves , however , this would family was harbouring this dangerous criminal two days beforehand . |
| 8 | We must be constantly vigil and keep a sharp look out for new issues which need to be put on our agenda , so that we can keep pace with the changes that affect our members and organization . |
| 9 | The alternative to institution-led standards might be either deprofessionalisation or re-registration tests of competence . |
| 10 | Tutwork was also estimated on a tonnage basis , the miners being paid on a bargain according to the actual weight of material extracted , which might be either ore or stone . |
| 11 | there at all , it 'll be just drinks and |
| 12 | He 'll fit in nowhere-he 'll be neither fish nor fowl … ‘ |
| 13 | I think we 'll be away dad because |
| 14 | They name him Xorandor because they notice that ‘ His logic could be both absolutely rigorous and absolutely contradictory at crucial points , some arguments could be both XOR and AND , or XOR and OR ’ ( 18 ) . |
| 15 | If only Fen could be both friend and lover to her . |
| 16 | What is important about Griffith , however , is that his demonstration that feature films could be both art and social treatise was not inspired by any narrow or specific intellectual or doctrinal position . |
| 17 | But I could be both Verlaine and Rimbaud . |
| 18 | If the contras could be neither saints nor crack troops , their appeal had to lie in romantic desperation : the ‘ fact ’ that they had been forced into exile , like the ‘ little old lady ’ with her hair in a bun and her dress ‘ held together by safety pins and string ’ whom Owen had met in a camp in Honduras ; the ‘ fact ’ that the soldiers were without food or uniforms , their hospitals nothing but hen-coops , lacking even mosquito netting ; the fact that there was never enough money for anything . |
| 19 | I wish it could be always summer and autumn , with you always loving me ! ’ |
| 20 | In the end the main beneficiary of London 's troubles may be neither Frankfurt nor Amsterdam , nor any other competing centre , but lots of quieter places that are not central at all . |
| 21 | Because N may be either headlights or darkness they could also produce the sentence The darkness penetrated the headlights . |
| 22 | I would go further and accept that the armoury of common law defences , such as those which prevent recovery of money paid under a binding compromise or to avoid a threat of litigation , may be either inapposite or inadequate for the purpose ; because it is possible to envisage , especially in modern taxation law which tends to be excessively complex , circumstances in which some very substantial sum of money may be held to have been exacted ultra vires from a very large number of taxpayers . |
| 23 | For it follows from this distinction that we see only the appearances of things , images of them in our minds , not the things themselves , ‘ so that , for aught we know , all we see , hear , and feel , may be only phantom and vain chimera , and not at all agree with the real things ’ . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , it would be simply days before they could book a room and equipment for a screening . |
| 25 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
| 26 | In Powys , the HLCA payment would be either £28/LU or £42/LU for sheep ( £44.50/LU for cows ) in the ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ zone which occupies most of the county . |
| 27 | But if Sunderland won , then the team relegated would be either Bristol or Coventry , depending on the outcome of their game against each other . |
| 28 | Nobody wants prisoners or lunatics on their doorstep , and there had been a well-fought campaign to demonstrate that the women of Garfield would be both prisoners and lunatics . |
| 29 | His own life would be both source and reflection of his work . |
| 30 | The outlay would be well worth while in terms of the publicity featuring all the hotel 's celebrity guests . |