Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you own or lease property where no-one is living you may have to pay a standard community charge in that area in addition to the personal charge in the area you live . |
| 2 | I would describe the Shoe-gazers as being a bungalow , but they 're in a … slightly empty tower block , where no-one 's particularly interested in living any more . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ All or nothing 's more our style , would n't you say , Robyn ? ’ |
| 4 | In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town . |
| 5 | If ‘ story ’ suggests a narrative sequence towards which Double Or Nothing is gesturing , Federman it the same time questions each fictional possibility so thoroughly that the only reliable sequence becomes the narrative voice which is constantly shifting in person and tone . |
| 6 | Modern beliefs , one might think , ought to be in the rationalist mould of the Enlightenment , but little or nothing is taught about the psychology of consciousness in schools , except in terms of religious studies . |
| 7 | That way little or nothing is revealed . |
| 8 | In medical schools a great deal is taught about the medical and other consequences of high alcohol consumption but little or nothing is taught about alcoholism , the addictive disease . |
| 9 | At present little or nothing is known about these patients . |
| 10 | I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating . |
| 11 | While there was , from the platform , evidence of considerable care and attention being paid to the potential physical hazards of the industry , little or nothing was said by the industry 's speakers about the effects of chemicals or their by-products on the environment . |
| 12 | Then says Mr. Daniel , ‘ Yes , but that is a future consideration and a future consideration , if nothing were done under it or nothing was proved to be done , would fail . ’ |
| 13 | You note that he resented them , where them is plural , and you may consider what plural entity may be both resented and worn ( or not worn ) . |
| 14 | where nothing 's being produced , can it ? |
| 15 | Where nothing is written it takes time to create a document which is genuinely useful to many of us , both as a verification of our struggle and a signpost to future strategies for our art work . |
| 16 | A city ‘ where nothing is wasted , costly and luxurious city though it be , but where wonderful human ants creep out of holes , and pick up every scrap ’ , OMF i 12 . |
| 17 | Where nothing is forthcoming for a word position , shape and length could be used along with higher level information to select potential words ; where some characters are suggested these could be used in addition to this information ; if only one or two letter positions in a word have no candidates , shape information could be used to select letter candidates , along with the restrictions provided by the adjacent letters . |
| 18 | ( b ) The pressures on the police may be such that they will try to avoid keeping records especially where nothing is found or they feel that no request for a copy of the record will be made . |
| 19 | The second reason given seems a little odd at first : a specific list of prohibited practices can only increase the degree of uncertainty for firms compared to the current arrangements , where nothing is specified . |
| 20 | ‘ Have you ever thought why it gets dark each evening ? ’ asks Phil one day , as they leave one coffee bar where nothing is happening , and walk to another , to find out if anything is happening there . |
| 21 | How could Mrs Hollidaye consider allowing Dot to return to that unsafe place where the air robbed your cheeks of their roses , where buildings collapsed though the bombs had long since stopped , where there was no glass in half the windows , no water in the taps , where nothing was quite what it seemed to be . |
| 22 | He was marooned on a world full of strangeness , where nothing was predictable , and now he was sick . |
| 23 | But at first you did n't realise that was what it was , that it was the novelty of ice cream wrappers and sweet papers and carrier bags and plastic bags strewn about that had changed the appearance of your childhood home , where nothing was ever discarded , but all returned into the cycle of sustenance . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ What I want is a country of real opportunity where everyone is free to choose . |
| 25 | Figure 2.2 reflects an organisation without a strict hierarchy where everyone is working quite independently . |
| 26 | After all in an age where everyone is becoming more environmentally aware , perhaps it is only fitting that even artists are getting into recycling . |
| 27 | N : I had a dream , it was a great dream where everyone was one colour and all the same height and nobody could tell them apart |
| 28 | Anxiety for example , is something that human beings will always experience , and to think that you can free them from anxiety in some future utopia , or go back to some ordered erm , ideal state in the past , where everyone was so secure , that they would never feel anxiety , is just a myth according to Freud . |
| 29 | Client agrees with KPMG ( for itself and on trust and as agent for the others mentioned below ) fully to indemnify and to hold harmless KPMG , its partners , employees , its lawyers , [ Stephenson Harwood ] , any Approved Broker and ( subject to Client 's prior consent to their engagement ) any other advisers , agents and consultants retained by KPMG in connection with the Offer ( any and all of which or whom is referred to as an ‘ Indemnified Person ’ ) from and against any and all losses , claims , costs , damages , actions , proceedings , demands , liabilities and expenses whatsoever , joint or several , ( collectively ‘ claims ’ ) which any such Indemnified Person may suffer or incur and which relate to or arise from , directly or indirectly , KPMG 's engagement hereunder and/or the provision by KPMG of its services in connection with the Offer . |
| 30 | What this means to you or me is that if we happen to fancy a cup of the most expensive tea in the world , we would have to hurry off to Knightsbridge this month and shell out £35 for a quarter of a pound of Indian brew named Castleton . |