Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It blames current top management and the board itself for not understanding how bad the problems are or knowing how to solve them . |
| 2 | It may make sense to be tested if you are or intend to become pregnant , as about 13% of babies born to HIV positive mothers are themselves infected . |
| 3 | You can ask them either just as they are or use them as a basis for formulating questions that are particularly related to the job for which you are being interviewed . |
| 4 | Where proceedings are commenced in the wrong court , the court can transfer the proceedings to the correct court , allow them to continue where they are or strike them out ( r 7.12 ) . |
| 5 | Will there be too many conflicts ? ( c ) Will plaintiff personal injury work preclude other types of work you are or wish to be engaged in , such as corporate and commercial business ? |
| 6 | I 'm not interested in you telling me what those meaning are or coming out with kind of y'know ideas that crossing your arms means that you 're defensive or anything like that . |
| 7 | you are or think you may be pregnant |
| 8 | you are or think you may be pregnant |
| 9 | OVEX TM must not be taken by women who are or think they may be pregnant . |
| 10 | But it clearly is much more difficult and heroic for any group of people who are on the front line of discrimination to adopt a nuanced reading of racism 's multiple forms than for those who are or want to be distanced from its processes and effects . |
| 11 | Hundreds of different products are or have been manufactured there , and the capacity and capability is impressive . |
| 12 | No counsellor can assume that ‘ good ’ relationships either are or have been the norm within the family , and idealistic pictures of family life as a reciprocally loving , mutually committed and concerned relationship should be abandoned . |
| 13 | Most people of middle age are or have been married ; divorce affects all age groups . |
| 14 | People with members of their family who are or have been alcoholic may , very understandably , be too scared of ‘ hitting the bottle ’ themselves to allow even a temporary licence in that area . |
| 15 | Features and functions enabling commercial data processing across distributed systems are or have been added , whilst holes and voids in the system have been plugged and patched . |
| 16 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 17 | Features and functions enabling commercial data processing across distributed systems are or have been added , while holes and voids in the system have been plugged and patched . |
| 18 | About 90% of rural adults in Mexico have friends or relatives who are or have been working in the United States . |
| 19 | In the last resort achievement will be dependent on the community 's willingness to accept an increased responsibility for those of its members who are or have been mentally ill … time is needed to prepare the way and to accustom the community to these added responsibilities . |
| 20 | After the close of pleadings in an action begun by writ there must be discovery by the parties to the action of the documents which are or have been in their possession , custody or power relating to matters in question in the action . |
| 21 | There is a good reason : those of childhood are or have been those of every client ( and also of every social worker ) and may be considered as common to every adult group . |
| 22 | most planation surfaces are or have been graded with respect to some base elevation , usually sea level , but often to an endorheic basin or to a climatic control above sea level ; |
| 23 | I do n't know the value attaching to the stamps on those envelopes but if they are or have been in your possession you would be well advised to make a full statement of your involvement . |
| 24 | Your own children , natural or adopted , can always inherit from you , whether or not you are or have been married to their other parent . |
| 25 | Fourteen days after a Proof has been allowed , each party is required to intimate to his opponents a list of documents which are or have been in his possession relating to the matters in dispute in the action . |
| 26 | After such period of adjustment as the Court may have allowed , the Record is closed and within fourteen days thereafter , each party is required to provide his opponent with ‘ a list of documents which are or have been in his possession or control relating to the matters in dispute in the action ’ . |
| 27 | We propose that inflammatory bowel disease patients who are or have been treated with systemic steroids and have articular complaints are investigated for osteonecrosis preferably by magnetic resonance scanning . |
| 28 | ( s ) To support and subscribe to any charitable or public object and to support and subscribe to any institution , society , or club which may be for the benefit of the Company or its Directors or employees , or may be connected with any town or place where the Company carried on business ; to give or award pensions , annuities , gratuities , and superannuation or other allowances or benefits or charitable aid and generally to provide advantages , facilities and services for any persons who are or have been Directors of , or who are or have been employed by , or who are serving or have served the Company , or any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or the holding company of the Company or a fellow subsidiary of the Company or the predecessors in business of the Company or of any such subsidiary , holding or fellow subsidiary company and to the wives , widows , children and other relatives and dependants of such persons ; to make payments towards insurance ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain superannuation and other fund or schemes ( whether contributory or non-contributory ) for the benefit of any such persons and of their wives , widows , children and their relatives and dependants ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain profit sharing schemes for the benefit of any of the employees of the Company or share purchase schemes for the benefit of any of the solicitor or registered foreign lawyer employees of the Company and to lend money to any such employees or to trustees on their behalf to enable any such purchase schemes to be established or maintained . |
| 29 | ( s ) To support and subscribe to any charitable or public object and to support and subscribe to any institution , society , or club which may be for the benefit of the Company or its Directors or employees , or may be connected with any town or place where the Company carried on business ; to give or award pensions , annuities , gratuities , and superannuation or other allowances or benefits or charitable aid and generally to provide advantages , facilities and services for any persons who are or have been Directors of , or who are or have been employed by , or who are serving or have served the Company , or any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or the holding company of the Company or a fellow subsidiary of the Company or the predecessors in business of the Company or of any such subsidiary , holding or fellow subsidiary company and to the wives , widows , children and other relatives and dependants of such persons ; to make payments towards insurance ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain superannuation and other fund or schemes ( whether contributory or non-contributory ) for the benefit of any such persons and of their wives , widows , children and their relatives and dependants ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain profit sharing schemes for the benefit of any of the employees of the Company or share purchase schemes for the benefit of any of the solicitor or registered foreign lawyer employees of the Company and to lend money to any such employees or to trustees on their behalf to enable any such purchase schemes to be established or maintained . |
| 30 | ( s ) To support and subscribe to any charitable or public object and to support and subscribe to any institution , society , or club which may be for the benefit of the Company or its Directors or employees , or may be connected with any town or place where the Company carried on business ; to give or award pensions , annuities , gratuities , and superannuation or other allowances or benefits or charitable aid and generally to provide advantages , facilities and services for any persons who are or have been Directors of , or who are or have been employed by , or who are serving or have served the Company , or any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or the holding company of the Company or a fellow subsidiary of the Company or the predecessors in business of the Company or of any such subsidiary , holding or fellow subsidiary company and to the wives , widows , children and other relatives and dependants of such persons ; to make payments towards insurance ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain superannuation and other fund or schemes ( whether contributory or non-contributory ) for the benefit of any such persons and of their wives , widows , children and their relatives and dependants ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain profit sharing schemes for the benefit of any of the employees of the Company or share purchase schemes for the benefit of any of the solicitor or registered foreign lawyer employees of the Company and to lend money to any such employees or to trustees on their behalf to enable any such purchase schemes to be established or maintained . |