Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they 're approved landlords or homeowners will be able to go straight to a county court for a possession order . |
| 2 | As gastrointestinal symptoms or signs may be non-specific two or more features related to either the upper or lower tract were considered necessary to suggest the site of possible disease . |
| 3 | Is it not the case that individuals or groups can be wrong in their judgements about the nature or status of some theory ? |
| 4 | Or strategies might be conditional upon the past history of the game . |
| 5 | Your Valium and Benson & Hedges will be fair game , as will your weekly consumption of vodka . |
| 6 | Dartmoor mist can blanket everything , and some of the ‘ mires ’ , or bogs can be deep . |
| 7 | Moreover the aims or goals should be independent of method . |
| 8 | Many babies are lulled to sleep in cars , but if yours is wakeful and miserable , tapes of music or songs can be useful . |
| 9 | However , where funds can be round , the award of bursaries for education and music tuition has much to be said for it . |
| 10 | There may also be ethical and social objections to the absence of competition : it is simply not fair that large firms or cartels should be able to oppress smaller competitors and/or customers by charging prices that greatly exceed the costs of supply . |
| 11 | Tubes or bottles must be clean and dry before use . |
| 12 | In fact , it is hoped to have some of the children 's embroidery work at the next ‘ Craft , Embroidery & Fashion Show ’ to be staged by Madeira Threads , once again at Harrogate , on the 12th and 13th November , where visitors will be able to buy some of the girls ' finished articles on display . |
| 13 | of the directors must be its nationals , and ( b ) that the legal and beneficial owners , charterers , managers , operators , shareholders or directors must be resident and domiciled in the member state , but that it was not a breach of Community law for a member state to stipulate as a condition for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the vessel must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within the member state ( post , pp. 340H — 341B , E , 343B–D ) . |
| 14 | In essence , sponsorship will be sought selectively and , where relevant , products or companies will be consistent with Amnesty 's profile and aims and appropriate to the event or activity . |
| 15 | But the conditions of farming in a largely self-sufficient community , where needs could be satisfied without moving out of the village , made for at least a formal unity in the rural group . |
| 16 | Or intermediaries may be prepared to offer deals at times when other firms are unable to do so , taking the risk of putting a deal on their own books . |
| 17 | The fourth principle is that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall be adequate , relevant and not excessive in relation to that purpose or those purposes ’ — and there is more to this than at first meets the eye . |
| 18 | To depict the aggregate supply function we first need to draw a distinction between aggregate supply in the short run , where expectations may be sluggish in reacting to external events , and the long run where money is neutral and where the supply of output is invariant with respect to the nominal money supply and the absolute price level . |
| 19 | A sound studio is actually likely to be much more distracting as you will usually be able to see the engineers and technicians working away in the control room and researchers or producers may be passing notes to the presenter . |
| 20 | And , like those fifteen women , Dickinson knew that , sometimes two — or more — versions of events or feelings can be true . |
| 21 | She was going to have to be very careful with this man or things would be bad . |
| 22 | Unlike Hobbes , however , he allows that ideas or concepts can be general , universal , or abstract , and need not be of particulars . |
| 23 | In such markets , direct selling or control of agents or distributors might be impractical , or it may be the case that import duties or other non-tariff barriers might present obstacles to exporters . |
| 24 | ( Similarly geometrical shapes or relations may be interdefinable in terms of their necessary relations and yet each , in principle , be displayable to ‘ spatial intuition ’ . ) |
| 25 | The length of battery leads might become important with the larger outputs and voltage limiters or isolators would be essential , I think . ’ |
| 26 | Others such as geologists or naturalists may be able to collect that information much more rapidly , but again it may be years before it can be used to produce a theory of evolution . |
| 27 | Their position in the room relevant to windows , doorways , other rooms or fireplaces will be different , as will the effects of these items on each tank . |
| 28 | The BSJA rules , for example , dictate : ‘ Breeches or jodhpurs must be white , pale yellow or fawn colour ’ . |
| 29 | If it is not possible to remove the hazard , adequate warnings or instructions will be relevant here . |
| 30 | All mood-altering substances or behaviours may be cross-addictive . |