Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closure of Ulimwengu could have been challenged in the courts had anyone felt willing , or been at liberty , to do so . |
| 2 | He has now ordered 13 type 23 frigates , four of which either were or are under construction at Swan Hunter on Tyneside . |
| 3 | The report lists 28 items of legislation to achieve the reductions , some of which have already been passed , while others are about to be passed or are under discussion . |
| 4 | As a result , almost nothing remains of , say , the pottery industry of Stoke on Trent and its neighbouring towns and most of the Lancashire and west Yorkshire textile mills have been abandoned , demolished or are under threat . |
| 5 | Even where the bureau is nearby , the generally short daytime opening hours may be difficult for people who are working or are at school or college . |
| 6 | For example , if there is an imbalance of the sexes in an age group either through natural variation in the sex ratio or because men have been killed during war or are at war , the overall marriage rate for that age will tend to fall temporarily and that for the less numerous sex will rise . |
| 7 | Difficult cases will arise where those arrangements do not exist , have not been documented , are ambiguous or are in conflict with each other . |
| 8 | ( whether , in either case , proceedings have been commenced or are in contemplation ) . |
| 9 | We are concerned , he suggests , about our own dog but not our neighbour 's , or are in favour of killing ten Siberian tigers as long as they are not the last ten . |
| 10 | The University will assume that it is free to approach referees at any stage unless the candidate 's application stipulates otherwise ( i.e. candidates who wish a referee or referees to be approached only with their specific permission and/or if they are being called for interview on the final short list or are in receipt of a conditional offer , are asked to state such requirements explicitly alongside the details of the relevant referee(s) ) . |
| 11 | If you do not understand the standards or are in doubt about how the general principles or rules of conduct might apply in specific circumstances , you must ask your manager for clarification . |
| 12 | You can choose whether these two paragraphs fall within your allotted 1,100 words , or are in addition to them . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , he found it worth enquiring , as Presidents of the BAAS were wont to do , whether ‘ sufficient facilities for education in science exist or are in progress in our country ; and whether Government or other important bodies provide sufficient encouragement and reward for its prosecution ’ . |
| 14 | Bear in mind that issues should reflect fundamental concerns ( in relation to the level of study ) , and might also include those problems that arise frequently , or are in vogue at the time of the study . |
| 15 | I mean what , what is it that attracts you , you ninety three people who have been in love or are in love , why ? , what is what , what , what are the attractive things ? , yes |
| 16 | We should look with deep understanding and compassion upon those whose relationships have failed or are in danger of failing . |
| 17 | Traditionally , country cottages and houses which have unusual or unique features or are in need of a lot of renovation may be auctioned , if only because valuation is likely to be difficult . |
| 18 | Typical candidates may work , or be on work placement , in an airline , in a shipping line or with a freight forwarding company . |
| 19 | The only drawback is that the files must either have a common format , in which case you can use the X-modem transfer method , or be in ASCII . |
| 20 | It may be that in the protestant — loyalist case this ethnic tendency may have priority over the British component of identity or be in conflict with it . |
| 21 | Many of these children are prepared and placed for adoption with strangers , and part of the package is that they will no longer see or be in contact with relatives who have remained in touch during their stay in care . |
| 22 | As a result , he will be unable to maintain a rhythm during his work or be in balance . |
| 23 | The main objection to this point revolves round the feeling that a person can have authority , or be in authority only if his authority is recognized by some people , whose identity varies with the nature of his authority . |
| 24 | Some of the men they knew had gone home to Ireland to escape being called up for the forces , but many more were serving in the Army , Navy or Air Force or were at sea with the Merchant Marine . |
| 25 | By the early 1970s , well over a hundred such projects had been completed or were in progress : the largest single number in the sciences , but with mathematics , English , and the humanities also scoring high . |
| 26 | However , I did n't think that the descriptions of Colin Ward and Sarah Baxter ( ‘ Chip butties and crème de menthe consumed to the accompaniment of the Beautiful South ’ and ‘ The thinking man 's Jaci Stephen ’ ) bore even the slightest relation to the truth , or were in kulcher-babble , come to that . |
| 27 | Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above . |
| 28 | In Britain , the character of being a mobilizer or a reconciler is not related to being in any one party or being in opposition or government . |
| 29 | A study by Moxon ( 1999 : 15 ) shows that as many as two-fifths of those whose offences involved less than £200 received unsuspended custody ( largely as a result of past offending or being in breach of an existing court order ) in spite of the persistent concern in recent years about the need to restrict custody to only the most serious property offenders . |
| 30 | Consider the offence of driving , attempting to drive or being in charge of a motor vehicle on a road or public place whilst unfit to drive through drink and drugs , where appropriate . |