Example sentences of "was [coord] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the Act , there was some doubt as to whether or not a person had to be aware that his conduct or language was or might be regarded as being threatening , abusive or insulting . |
| 2 | Where the defendant claims that as a result of intoxication , he did not realise that his conduct was or might be regarded as threatening , abusive or insulting , the magistrates must make a determination as to what they considered that the defendant would have realised had he been sober , and the conclusion that he would have realised will be virtually inevitable . |
| 3 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 4 | When ‘ man ’ , ‘ stone ’ , or ‘ living creature ’ is said to be ‘ universal ’ , we are not to understand that ‘ man , stone ’ , etc. ever was or can be universal , but only that these words , ‘ living creature ’ , ‘ stone ’ , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things . |
| 5 | I can not say that the letter is in the drawer and mean that the cake is in the cupboard , or that the letter was or will be in the drawer . |
| 6 | The date on which the SPR was or will be created . |
| 7 | In the event , of course , nothing was or could be done . |
| 8 | Later cases took a different approach : starting from the assumption that the Convention was or could be time-consuming and expensive , a number of courts held that the party wanting to ‘ impose ’ the use of those procedures must show good cause . |
| 9 | My life lacked the clarity , form and order of simple fiction , and I had no idea who , where or what I was or should be . |
| 10 | In Oscar Chess Ltd v Williams [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 370 , Denning LJ suggested that a binding promise might be inferred from the circumstances if the seller stated a fact which was or should be within his own knowledge , and of which the buyer was ignorant , intending that the buyer should act upon it , and with the result that the buyer did act upon it . |
| 11 | This was done to be sure that the constipation was and would be adequately treated . |
| 12 | The debate about what the WEA was and should be doing had particular point in 1953 , the year the government initiated its own enquiry into adult education . |