Example sentences of "[is] [coord] [vb mod] be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Go easy on him ; one way or another he is or will be very distressed . ’
2 What is or can be as superlatively silly or ruinous to the nerves as that silly girl , snivelling and laughing by turns over a ‘ love story ’ ?
3 The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " .
4 I would certainly join my honourable friend in condemning the advice which has been reported in the paper today er the government 's efforts to improve the campaign against truancy and the to succeed in getting errant pupils back to school which is where they should be , I believe is and should be widely supported .
5 Liz Trickett and Frankie Sulke report on the effects of the LAMP ( Low Attainers in Mathematics ) and RAMP ( Raising Achievement in Mathematics ) projects on both the teachers and pupils who participated , providing a challenge to all teachers to examine their views about both what their pupils are capable of and what mathematics is and should be about .
6 If one affirms that there is and can be only one ultimate and self-sufficient principle , the transcendent Father , and also that the divine Triad is three distinct realities ( as Origen had taught ) , it is not easy then to affirm that the Son and the Father are in being identical or ‘ of one substance ’ — not at least without fairly complicated explanations .
7 The conclusion reached there is that environmental degradation is and will be frequently beyond the power of the state , and will only become a possibility as an incidental result of other fundamental social changes .
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