Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to go on Lord Street and he used to be where they sold luscious cakes . |
| 2 | then , when you 've finished with it you 're paying again yo , to the community tax , as it 's going to be or whatever |
| 3 | Legitimacy … does not deal so much with whether activities of government are lawful as whether they accord with what are generally perceived to be or what have for long been held up to be , the fundamental principles of the constitution according to which government is or ought to be conducted . |
| 4 | and then just generally play with it say , Oh I wonder what would happen if you put two thirds together , how many twelfths would that be or what about if you had a third and you wanted to take a quarter away , if you cut a quarter off it . |
| 5 | Wycliffe brooded ; he felt restless and frustrated , unable to make up his mind where he should be or what he should be doing . |
| 6 | In expressing the view that he felt he was n't making a large contribution to the activities of the Commission , he also requested some guidance on what his role should be or what view the Commission had about his role . |
| 7 | I do n't know I do n't know how long income support 's going to be , I do n't know how long my next pay packet 's gon na be or what have you . |
| 8 | All the erm imponderables , I mean when you 're young you do n't know quite where you 're going to be or what you 're going to do . |
| 9 | " Silly question , of course you must be or they would n't have let you out . " |
| 10 | He 's supposed to be or something . |
| 11 | First , there is a need for a continuum of services in which residential care is positively included for children and young people who may be or who are in need of public care . |
| 12 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 13 | It could be as marvellous as you think it will be or it could be a total disaster . |
| 14 | I mean it could be or it could be the reason why er why younger not |
| 15 | It might be or it might not . |
| 16 | It could be or it could n't . |
| 17 | It 's not that good , cos it 's either Final Fight you have to be or you can only pick out of and or it 's Final Fight guy where you can only be or Guy . |
| 18 | It comes from knowing that no matter how intense a pain might be or our sorrow or our anxiousness , that Jesus Christ is the ultimate victor . |
| 19 | We just had to be or my centenary Open was going to be short-lived indeed ! |
| 20 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 21 | He would no sooner place his arm where he wanted it to be than his upper body was wracked by a spasm . |
| 22 | You do n't think it 'll be once they put the money |
| 23 | Gartmore investors will have to wait until the end of January to know who the new owners will be although it will almost certainly be an overseas based group . |
| 24 | At the time of her conversion , she was sometimes ecstatic with love ; on one occasion she returned home , and was so on fire with love which God had manifested to her that all she could utter was : ‘ O Love , can it be that thou hast called me with so much love , and revealed to me , at one view , what no tongue can describe ? ’ — Von Hugel . |
| 25 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 26 | It may be that they are in fact onycophorans , a group of arthropods now represented by caterpillar-like velvet worms that burrow through dead wood in Australia . |
| 27 | According to Mr Birchall , the answer could be that they are protected by silicon and that the main biological job of silicon is simply to help living things keep aluminium out . |
| 28 | One other consequence of a fresh gradation of sexual offences might be that they would cease to be gender-specific : there are some strange inconsistencies in the law at present , and it is not at all difficult to draft offences which might be committed by males or females against males or females . |
| 29 | An officer said : ‘ It may be that they just did n't act quickly enough for him . ’ |
| 30 | The answer must be that they have nothing to do with crofting as such , and little to do with agriculture , although there are agricultural problems . |