Example sentences of "[prep] be or " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also told to , ‘ never cease your labour , your care and diligence , until you have done all that lieth in you , according to your bounden duty , to bring all such as are or shall be committed to your charge , unto … knowledge of God ’ . |
| 2 | The transition may also consist of a link verb such as be or seem , or any verb whose main function is simply to link the foundation-laying and core-constituting elements of a clause . |
| 3 | Nevertheless Stavrogin does contemplate suicide , and the notebook entry ‘ to be or not to be ’ bears the date 16 August , so it belongs to the summer when the ‘ tendentious ’ political story gets tugged back into great-sinner orbit , growing physically and imaginatively larger and more formidable all the time . |
| 4 | So the novel frees Stavrogin from ‘ to be or not to be ’ and all other trammels of the notebooks , and transfers them to Kirillov . |
| 5 | Commodities : AFBD problem : to be or not to be |
| 6 | By 1982 we had swept up all but a handful of awkward items whose inhabitants , for varying reasons , did n't want to be or could n't be ‘ nationalised ’ — which was very untidy and inconvenient of them . |
| 7 | The first was The Country House : To Be or Not To Be , produced with Kit Martin . |
| 8 | ‘ To be or not to be — ’ ’ |
| 9 | Science fiction thus illustrates a principle of all drama : it is a confrontation between normality and abnormality , security and insecurity , known and unknown , to be or not to be ! |
| 10 | In 1985 the management of Somerset Probation Service was faced with the fact that nearly one in three of the offenders supervised in their area were either known to be or suspected of misusing alcohol ( Singer , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | That is : ‘ To be or not to be ’ . |
| 12 | It was all of these things and more , whether Morrissey intended it to be or not . |
| 13 | We just had to be or my centenary Open was going to be short-lived indeed ! |
| 14 | She had never learned to read , either , and on the very rare occasions she received a letter Christine was called in to read it to her , Miss Miggs being careful to explain that her eyes were n't as good as they used to be or that she could n't find her glasses . |
| 15 | TO BE OR NOT TO BE |
| 16 | Just because it is so common that it is regarded as ‘ normal ’ to expect chronic ill health with advancing years does that mean that it is the way things have to be or , indeed , should be ? |
| 17 | Another interesting finding is that many of these patients have worked in the medical field ; they are particularly likely to be or have been nurses ( Simpson 1975 ) . |
| 18 | TO BE OR NOT TO BE |
| 19 | Shall I give you my ‘ To be or not to be ’ ? ’ |
| 20 | To be or not to be . |
| 21 | But if our picture of God is wrong , then our whole presupposition of what it is possible for God to be or do is correspondingly altered . |
| 22 | Still , what the song celebrates are ‘ hidden paths ’ , ‘ sudden tree[s] ’ , ‘ A new road on a secret gate ’ — things which seem to be or to lead out of this world . |
| 23 | for proceeding to or returning from a workshop in which a body or a special type of equipment or accessory is to be or has been fitted to it or in which it is to be or has been painted , valeted or repaired ; |
| 24 | for proceeding to or returning from a workshop in which a body or a special type of equipment or accessory is to be or has been fitted to it or in which it is to be or has been painted , valeted or repaired ; |
| 25 | for proceeding to or returning from any garage , auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or usually or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or is to be or has been offered for sale as the case may be ; |
| 26 | for proceeding to or returning from any garage , auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or usually or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or is to be or has been offered for sale as the case may be ; |
| 27 | for proceeding to or returning from a place where it is to be or has been tested , or for proceeding to a place where it is to be broken up or otherwise dismantled . |
| 28 | The mental element or mens rea for this offence is explained in Section 6(4) of the 1986 Act , viz : A person is guilty of an offence under section 5 only if he intends his words or behaviour , or the writing , sign or other visible representation , to be threatening , abusive or insulting , or is aware that it may be threatening , abusive or insulting or ( as the case may be ) he intends his behaviour to be or is aware that it may be disorderly . |
| 29 | If this point is charged or reported then the accused 's mental state or mens rea should be proved , i.e. an intent to be or an awareness that his conduct may be disorderly . |
| 30 | He recited ‘ To be or not to be ’ . |