Example sentences of "or be [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall make the widening of the Community a priority , and shall advocate speedy admission for Austria , Sweden , Finland and Cyprus , whose membership applications have been or are about to be lodged . |
| 2 | While most supermarket chains in Europe have been ( or are about to be ) battered by recession , discounters like Germany 's Aldi and Denmark 's Netto are flourishing . |
| 3 | And all the corridors , stairways , and walls in other areas , have either been re-painted or are about to be . |
| 4 | The tenant should consider its deletion , particularly where the premises form part of a shopping centre and the other units have already been constructed or are about to be so . |
| 5 | Didsbury , St Osyth 's , Worcester and others which had previously had discussions with the CNAA were either already back in discussion , or were soon to be so . |
| 6 | This only serves to emphasise the desirability of stating expressly whether time is or is not to be of the essence . |
| 7 | ‘ Whether the child has arrived or is yet to be born is unclear . |
| 8 | If ever there was any documentation relating to this episode , none appears to have survived or is yet to be unearthed . |
| 9 | Third-person pronouns are frequently used to refer back ( and occasionally forward ) to an entity which has already been introduced ( or is about to be introduced ) into the discourse . |
| 10 | He turned to his sons demanding to know whether there was or was not to be a baptism party that night , and whether or not I would be the only white present . |