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Example sentences of "the [noun sg] be or " in BNC.

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1	The Indemnity Fund was established ( pursuant to s37 of the Solicitors Act ) to provide indemnity against loss arising from claims in respect of any description of civil liability incurred : ( 1 ) by a solicitor or former solicitor in connection with his practice or with any trust of which he is or formerly was a trustee ; and ( 2 ) by an employee or former employee of a solicitor or former solicitor in connection with that solicitor 's practice or with any trust of which that solicitor or the employee is or formerly was a trustee .
2	In practice the employer must show two things : ( a ) the existence of trade connections which are to an extent " special " to him ; and ( b ) that the employee is or will be in a position to take advantage of those special trade connections .
3	All the women in the study were or had been married and were aged between 20 and 59 .
4	Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received .
5	Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity .
6	The other main dichotomy has to do with whether the dialogue is or is not attributed — that is , whether the text is explicit or implicit about who is speaking .
7	Now comes the second step , the act of measurement itself , the ascertaining where the electron is or how it is moving .
8	The ceiling was or today is fifty percent , tomorrow it will be er fifty thousand pounds , tomorrow it will be twenty thousand pounds and erm I 'm very much tying this in with para four four eight on page ten .
9	In the case of the simple potential divider depicted in figure 8.2(c) , the requirement of unaltered loading on insertion between a source and load resistance R L demands that But the attenuation is or through condition ( 8.4 ) From equations ( 8.4 ) and ( 8.5 ) it follows that to implement attenuation A through a simple potential divider without altering the loading of the source , the values of resistances R 1 and R 2 must be Notice that to provide variable attenuation yet maintain unaltered loading , that is , input resistance equal to load resistance , both resistances R 1 and R 2 must be adjusted in such a way as to comply with equations ( 8.6 ) .
10	Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him .
11	Since there seems to be some doubt about the matter , it should be made clear that the High Court 's inherent jurisdiction in relation to children — the parens patriae jurisdiction — is equally exercisable whether the child is or is not a ward of court : see In re M. and N. ( Minors ) ( Wardship : Publication of Information ) [ 1990 ] Fam. 211 , 223G .
12	I would only add that in a situation in which it is necessary to consider operating the machinery of the Convention , some psychological harm to the child is inherent , whether the child is or is not returned .
13	No , nothing ; or else the memory of a meeting , ‘ but I ca n't recall what the outcome was or what we were discussing . ’
14	( b ) at the time of such act or default the covenantor is or was a member of or a beneficial owner of a share in the recognised body ;
15	( a ) a director or member of the body is or has been a director or member of a recognised body which has been the subject of an order or direction under paragraphs 18 or 21 of Schedule 2 to the Act or the recognition of which has been revoked under Rule 10 of these Rules or has expired under Rule 9 of these Rules ; or
16	Few witnesses in court refuse ‘ to tell the truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth ’ on the grounds that they do n't know what the truth is or how to tell it .
17	I could tell you offhand , if I 'd known how , where the race was or there 's not many places .
18	Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A
19	Now the mission to Colesfield was with the crew that you have pictures , have the picture of , as you look at the picture from left to right standing in the back is or I should say , , , and his home town was Louisiana , he was a waste gunner .
20	Where a policeman is surrounded by a group of youths , one of whom he is attempting to pacify or arrest , and the youth uses language such that the policeman is or feels threatened , it is submitted that an offence is committed .
21	Provided it was in the form of a thin whisker , it did not matter what the chemical nature of the stuff was or by what method the whiskers were grown .
22	A firm must take reasonable steps to ensure that it does not make any personal recommendation to a private customer of an investment or investment agreement , or effect or arrange a discretionary transaction with or for an customer , unless the recommendation or transaction is suitable for him , having regard to the facts disclosed by that customer and other relevant facts about the customer of which the firm is or reasonably should be aware .
23	A firm must take all reasonable steps to ensure that it does not give investment advice to , nor effect , a discretionary transaction with or for , a private customer , unless that advice or transaction is suitable for him having regard to the facts disclosed by that customer or other relevant facts about the customer of which the firm is or ought reasonably to be aware .
24	This is a typical psychological reaction , i.e. one which is said to cause ‘ a reversible alteration in mood , behaviour , attitude , or thought processes of which the subject is or may become aware and which may be favourable or unfavourable ’ .
25	2 Is it self-evident what the subject is or does ?
26	Section 23(1) provides that part II of the 1954 Act applies ‘ to any tenancy where the property comprised in the tenancy is or includes premises which are occupied by the tenant for the purposes of a business carried on by him or for those and other purposes ’ .
27	Often , it will be obvious if the information is or is not confidential .
28	If you have bad luck in the chase , if your wife is persistently flighty and difficult , if a chief favours your rival and ignores your requests for attention , then the cause is or may be witchcraft .
29	I can not say that the letter is in the drawer and mean that the cake is in the cupboard , or that the letter was or will be in the drawer .
30	As well as showing the average or individual costs of community care under the Home Support Project it would clearly also be useful to show whether the project was or was not cost-effective overall ; that is , whether the costs of running the service were greater or lower than the total public expenditure saved through sustaining at home people who without the project would have been in institutions .